The fossilized remains of an immature diplodocid—a large, long-necked herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, like Brontosaurus—may provide the first evidence of a unique respiratory infection in a dinosaur, according to a study ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Feb 10, 2022
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The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognized as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of a massive volcanic eruption in Ethiopia reveals they are much older than ...
Environment
Jan 12, 2022
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The two-meter skull of a newly discovered species of giant ichthyosaur, the earliest known, is shedding new light on the marine reptiles' rapid growth into behemoths of the Dinosaurian oceans, and helping us better understand ...
Evolution
Dec 23, 2021
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A new study, published today in the journal Nature, has provided the most detailed timeline of mammal evolution to date.
Evolution
Dec 22, 2021
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A 72- to 66-million-year-old embryo found inside a fossilized dinosaur egg sheds new light on the link between the behavior of modern birds and dinosaurs, according to a new study.
Paleontology & Fossils
Dec 21, 2021
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There are extinctions, and then there's the "Great Dying." That was the Permian-Triassic extinction around 250 million years ago, which wiped out nearly all life on Earth.
Evolution
Dec 2, 2021
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Fossils found in Chile are from a strange-looking dog-sized dinosaur species that had a unique slashing tail weapon, scientists reported Wednesday.
Plants & Animals
Dec 1, 2021
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The oldest unequivocal evidence of upright walking in the human lineage are footprints discovered at Laetoli, Tanzania in 1978, by paleontologist Mary Leakey and her team. The bipedal trackways date to 3.7 million years ago. ...
Evolution
Dec 1, 2021
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A wide variety of animals have tusks, from elephants and walruses to five-pound, guinea pig-looking critters called hyraxes. But one thing tusked animals have in common is that they're all mammals—there are no known fish, ...
Evolution
Oct 26, 2021
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For a long time, scientists assumed that microorganisms, due to their broad distribution patterns, were much less affected by such climatic changes than plants and animals that often present very limited distribution areas. ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Oct 22, 2021
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