Mammals in the time of dinosaurs held each other back
Credit: Art by Corbin Rainbolt. A new study led by researchers from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, University ...
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Herbivores developed powerful jaws to digest tougher plants after the mass extinctions
Credit: James Ormiston Researchers at the University of Bristol found that plant eaters diversified quickly after mass extinctions to eat ...
High genomic diversity is good news for California condor
First complete genome reveals high genetic diversity despite recent brush with extinctionCredit: Photo courtesy of San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance ...
Prehistoric footprints suggest mammals did like to be beside the seaside
Fossilised footprint tracks, recently discovered within the Hanna Formation in Wyoming, USA, which have been dated to 58 million years ...
Ankle and foot bone evolution gave prehistoric mammals a leg up
Credit: Sarah Shelley The evolution of ankle and foot bones into different shapes and sizes helped mammals adapt and thrive ...
Giant sea lizard fossil shows diversity of life before asteroid hit
Credit: Andrey Atuchin A giant mosasaur from the end of the Cretaceous period in Morocco that could have reached up ...
Prehistoric horses, bison shared diet
Tooth wear offers clues to how diversity of Ice Age mammals co-existed in AlaskaCredit: Andrew Higley/UC Creative University of Cincinnati ...
Ancient gut microbiomes may offer clues to modern diseases
Genomic analysis of human samples from dry caves shows stark differences with modern industrialized bacterial populations. BOSTON - (May 12, ...
Xerocrassa montserratensis, an endemic and threatened snail in Catalonia
The genetic structure of the land snail identified in the late 19th century in the Montserrat mountainCredit: Vicenç Bros A ...
Southern African dinosaur had irregular growth
Credit: Dorling Kindersley Anyone who's raised a child or a pet will know just how fast and how steady their ...
Newly described horned dinosaur from New Mexico was the earliest of its kind
With a frilled head and beaked face, Menefeeceratops sealeyi lived 82 million years ago, predating its relative, TriceratopsCredit: Sergey Krasovskiy ...
New ancient shark discovered
Credit: (© Sebastian Stumpf) This rare fossil find comes from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in England, a series of sedimentary ...
The formation of the Amazon Basin influenced the distribution of manatees
Whole mitochondrial DNA sequencing of the three extant species of the aquatic mammal shows that they first split from their ...
Review: Most human origins stories are not compatible with known fossils
Fossil apes can inform us about essential aspects of ape and human evolution, including the nature of our last common ...
Dinosaurs that hunted in the dark
The tiny desert-living dinosaur Shuvuuia had extraordinary vision and owl-like hearing for nocturnal life in the Mongolian desertCredit: Viktor Radermaker ...
Temperature explains why aquatic life more diverse near equator
Findings indicate global warming could reduce biodiversity in tropicsCredit: Adapted from figure in Current Biology / Cell Press The bulging, ...
Slender-snouted Besanosaurus was an 8 m long marine snapper
Paleontologists working in museum collections in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany have identified five additional specimens of a 240-million-year-old ichthyosaur, named ...
Study offers earliest evidence of humans changing ecosystems with fire
Mastery of fire has given humans dominance over the natural world. A Yale-led study provides the earliest evidence to date ...
Water flora in the lakes of the ancient Tethys Ocean islands
New biogeographical affinities in Cretaceous floraCredit: Cretaceous Research A study published in Cretaceous Research expands the paleontological richness of continental ...
Microfossil found in Scottish Highlands could be ‘missing link’ in early animal evolution
Freshwater fossil displays multicellularity 400 million years earlier than previously establishedCredit: P.K. Strother Chestnut Hill, MA (5/3/2021) -- The billion-year-old ...