An international team led by researchers at the Center for Paleogenetics, has uncovered microbial DNA preserved in woolly and steppe mammoth remains dating back more than one million years. The analyses reveal some of the ...
Cell & Microbiology
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In a recent study, a research team led by Martin Ebert from the Ludwig Maximilian University and Adriana López-Arbarello from the Unidad Ejecutora Lillo examined fossil fish specimens of the family Caturidae housed in various ...
New genetic techniques are shedding light on a mysterious part of our family tree—ancient human relatives called the Denisovans that emerged during the Pleistocene epoch, approximately 370,000 years ago.
Long before the construction of the Felipe Ángeles International Airport, which lies northeast of Mexico City, the area was home to the former Lake Xaltocan and inhabited by a rich ecosystem of prehistoric animals. Eons later, ...
The Polish Geological Institute-National Research Institute reports a Lower Devonian (419 to 393 million years ago) fossilized trackway in the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland, attributed to dipnoan fish. Their analysis finds ...
Researchers report three distinct tanystropheid taxa from the upper Blue Mesa Member of the Chinle Formation in the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, including a new genus and species, Akidostropheus oligos, with ...
A team of international scientists has discovered new fossils at a field site in Africa that indicate Australopithecus, and the oldest specimens of Homo, coexisted at the same place in Africa at the same time—between 2.6 ...
Evolution
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In a recent study by Dr. Sofia Patrocínio and her colleagues, published in Papers in Palaeontology, a new specimen of Docodonta is described.
An international group of paleontologists led by the University of Poitiers, France, report that a recently recovered velociraptorine fossil, Shri rapax, brandished unusually large, powerful clawed hands. Findings point to ...
Remarkable fossils found in North Greenland have helped researchers solve a 500-million-year-old puzzle surrounding squid-like ancestors.
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