Paleontology

Credit: Hsu Shu-yu About 800,000 years ago, the giant straight-tusked elephant Palaeoloxodon migrated out of Africa and became widespread across Europe and Asia. It divided into many species, with distinct types in Japan, Central…

Fossil from Japan reveals unexpected distribution of 'Atlantic' seabirdsCredit: Kyoto University/Junya Watanabe (dovekie photo by Justin Ammendolia) Japan -- Findings from a 700,000-year-old fossil bone indicate that a close relative…

Historical insight alters rationale for modern land managementCredit: Elizabeth Chilton, Binghamton University A new study in the journal Nature Sustainability overturns long-held interpretations of the role humans played…

A study tracing acoustic communication across the tree of life of land-living vertebrates reveals that the ability to vocalize goes back hundreds of millions of years, is associated with a nocturnal lifestyle and has remained stableCredit:…

Researchers think it was one of the first animals to spend time on landCredit: Images courtesy Andrew Wendruff COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Scientists studying fossils collected 35 years ago have identified them as the oldest-known scorpion…

San Diego Natural History Museum paleontologist describes a dinosaur that is new to science, offers view into dinosaur-bird evolutionCredit: Ashley Poust SAN DIEGO, Calif.--A new species of feathered dinosaur has been discovered in…

3D scans confirm Australian bird's link to South AmericaCredit: Flinders University One of the largest living birds, the Southern Cassowary, has a simple throat structure similar to the fellow Australian emu. Now new research…

Credit: University of Missouri A 550 million-year-old fossilized digestive tract found in the Nevada desert could be a key find in understanding the early history of animals on Earth. Over a half-billion years ago, life on Earth was…

Credit: Taro Okamura Scientists could soon better investigate the feeding behaviors of extinct dolphin and whale species. A third year student at Japan's Nagoya University has found that the range of motion offered by the joint between…

Team from Göttingen, Helsinki and New York gets new insights into the evolution of myxomycetesCredit: Alexander Schmidt, University of Göttingen and Scientific Reports Most people associate the idea of creatures trapped in amber with…