Flatfish got weird fast due to evolutionary cascade
Study: Skull asymmetry arose rapidly from trait co-evolutionCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (May 3, 2021) - Ever look at ...
Tag: Paleontology
Newly identified saber-toothed cat is one of largest in history
Giant cat roamed North America 5-9 million years agoCredit: Photo courtesy of John Orcutt COLUMBUS, Ohio - A giant saber-toothed ...
International study: Humans accelerate the change of biodiversity
Humans have significantly altered biodiversity in all climate zones of the Earth. This has been shown by a study published ...
Discarded ostrich shells provide timeline for our early African ancestors
Uranium-series dating shows South African midden is world's oldestCredit: Image courtesy of E. Niespolo. Archeologists have learned a lot about ...
NSU researcher part of a flagship study on vertebrate genomes
Study ushers in new era of quality and scale in genome sequencingCredit: Genome 10K Project Study Take-Aways Unprecedented novel discoveries ...
Methane release rapidly increases in the wake of the melting ice sheets
Credit: Giuliana Panieri Ice ages are not that easy to define. It may sound intuitive that an ice age represents ...
Flies grow bigger up north: Insect size a promising new proxy for palaeoclimate
Credit: Viktor Baranov MUNICH -- Scientists use many proxies to reconstruct Earth's ancient climates. Pollen, diatoms, geochemical isotopes, and fossils, ...
A pioneering study: Plant roots act like a drill
Plant roots screw themselves into the ground - just like a drill penetrating a wallCredit: Tel Aviv University In an ...
New duckbilled dinosaur discovered in Japan
Paleontologists find second hadrosaurid speciesCredit: Artwork by Masato Hattori. DALLAS (SMU) - An international team of paleontologists has identified a ...
How does a nose evolve into a blowhole? Study suggests there’s more than one way
Toothed and baleen whales show different patterns of blowhole developmentCredit: Rachel Roston. The two major types of cetaceans appear to ...
Extinct ‘horned’ crocodile gets new spot in the tree of life
New ancient DNA-based study on Madagascar crocodile suggests that modern crocodiles likely originated in AfricaCredit: M. Ellison/©AMNH A study led ...
Researcher questions whether powered flight appeared on non-avialan dinosaurs
Francisco Serrano, from University of Malaga, refutes this conclusion published in 2020 in the absence of scientific evidenceCredit: F.J. Serrano. ...
Scrubbing paleontological data
The winning entry of the Open Research Challenge (ORC) offers a solution for cleaning paleontological dataCredit: Picture: Joe Flannery Sutherland ...
We’ve been at it a long time
Hebrew University researchers unveil oldest evidence of human activity in African desert cave Few sites in the world preserve a ...
Fat-footed tyrannosaur parents could not keep up with their skinnier adolescent offspring
Credit: Vitor Silva New research by the University of New England's Palaeoscience Research Centre suggests juvenile tyrannosaurs were slenderer and ...
New results about the diets of people who lived on the Great Hungarian Plain
A transdisciplinary study of the dietary evolution of the first agricultural and pastoral communities in Central EuropeCredit: Photo credit: Marina ...
Walk the dinosaur! New biomechanical model shows Tyrannosaurus rex in a swinging gait
Credit: Rick Stikkelorum, Arthur Ulmann & Pasha van Bijlert Humans and animals have a preferred walking speed. This is, in ...
Fearsome tyrannosaurs were social animals, study suggests
The report, based on research at a unique fossil site in Utah, provides new evidence that tyrannosaurs were social carnivores ...
Little Foot fossil shows early human ancestor clung closely to trees
Credit: Kristian Carlson A long-awaited, high-tech analysis of the upper body of famed fossil "Little Foot" opens a window to ...
Earth’s biggest mass extinction took ten times longer on land than in the water
Credit: Gina Viglietti Our planet's worst mass extinction event happened 252 million years ago when massive volcanic eruptions caused catastrophic ...
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Male dogs four times more likely to develop contagious cancer on nose or mouth than females
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COVID-19 fattens up our body’s cells to fuel its viral takeover
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Machine learning goes with the flow
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Dinosaurs took over amid ice, not warmth, says a new study of ancient mass extinction
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Only through international cooperation can AI improve patient lives
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New research supports risk-based prostate cancer screening