Paleontology

Research published in Science explains the effect of human-influenced mass extinction of giant carnivores and herbivores from North America.Credit: University of Arkansas / University Relations As part of an international research…

Disappearance of mammoths, other giants likely reduced interactions of smaller mammalsCredit: University of Nebraska-Lincoln / Shutterstock When a series of large mammal species began going extinct roughly 12,000 years ago, many surviving…

Hebrew Uuniversity researchers provide first glimpse at what ancient Denisovans may have looked like (Jerusalem, September 19, 2019)--If you could travel back in time to 100,000 years ago, you'd find yourself living among several different…

Credit: Maayan Harel If you could travel back in time 100,000 years, you'd find yourself living among multiple groups of humans, including anatomically modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. But exactly what our…

Squat lobsters have a colorful history going back to the dinosaur era -- a peak of diversityCredit: Cristina Robins & Adiel Klompmaker, UC Berkeley Coral reefs and the abundant life they support are increasingly threatened today,…

Credit: (c) Don Davis, Southwest Research Institute About 466 million years ago, long before the age of the dinosaurs, the Earth froze. The seas began to ice over at the Earth's poles, and the new range of temperatures…

Technological progress in the Levant fits a 'punctuated equilibrium' modelCredit: E. Ben-Yosef and the Central Timna Valley Project During the late 10th century BCE, the emerging Edomite Kingdom of the southern Levant experienced a…

New study of an ape-like pelvis suggests human ancestors might not have been built like modern African apesCredit: Illustration courtesy of John Siddick COLUMBIA, Mo. - Near an old mining town in Central Europe, known for its picturesque…

Extinct palorchestid marsupials likely filled a niche no longer occupied in modern AustraliaCredit: Hazel Richards (2019) Palorchestid marsupials, an extinct group of Australian megafauna, had strange bodies and lifestyles unlike…

Credit: Julia Beier A prehistoric crocodile that lived around 180 million years ago has been identified - almost 250 years after the discovery of it fossil remains. A fossil skull found in a Bavarian town in the 1770s has been recognised…