a Map of Greenland and location of NGRIP ice core; b Map of northeastern Africa, the Near East, and southeastern Europe showing important fossil and…
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Dusk falls on East Africa’s Turkana Basin 4 million years ago, where our early upright-walking ape ancestors, Australopithecus anamensis (foreground), shared their habitat with several…
The tiny beetle Triamyxa coprolithica is the first-ever insect to be described from fossil feces. Credit: Qvarnström et al. The tiny beetle Triamyxa coprolithica is…
New Fossil Discovery of a Distinct, Ancient Human Species Points to Complicated Evolutionary Process
Static skull, mandible, and parietal orthographic. Credit: Tel Aviv University Analysis of recently discovered fossils found in Israel suggests that interactions between different human species…
If rocks from Earth containing microbial life entered Venus’s orbit in the past, this life may have adapted to Venus’s atmospheric conditions. The death of…
Digital reconstruction of the new Mesozoic bird fossil skeleton (scale bar: 10 mm). Credit: Min Wang Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology…
New research from UMD shows ecology changed for tyrannosaurs as they grew up. Slender, agile young tyrannosaurs (left) hunted different prey and did so in…
A mating pair of Callosobruchus maculatus attempting to disengage (female left, male right). Credit: Mareike Koppik A few males are enough to fertilize all the…
This image shows comparisons among Peking Man, Maba, Jinniushan, Dali and Harbin crania (from left to right). Credit: Kai Geng A near-perfectly preserved ancient human…
Static skull, mandible, and parietal orthographic. Credit: Tel Aviv University Dramatic Discovery in Israeli Excavation The discovery of a new Homo group in this region,…
The venom of a caterpillar, native to South East Queensland, shows promise for use in medicines and pest control, Institute for Molecular Bioscience researchers say.…
Research led by scientists at the University of Bristol has shed new light on how the kidneys of the one-humped Arabian camel play an important…
Long misunderstood, snake tongues have fascinated naturalists for centuries. As dinosaurs lumbered through the humid cycad forests of ancient South America 180 million years ago,…
Sperm size varies dramatically among different animal species. But why is sperm size so variable when they share the same job — to fertilize eggs?…
Some of the birds collected at Chicago’s McCormick Place that are in the Field Museum collections, including an eastern meadowlark (far left) and an indigo…
The period preceding the emergence of behaviorally modern humans was characterized by dramatic climatic and environmental variability – it is these pressures, occurring over hundreds…
Galería de las Estatuas cave site in northern Spain. Credit: Javier Trueba – Madrid Scientific Films Mitochondrial DNA of archaic humans has been retrieved from…
Scientists discover a new feature that distinguishes modern humans from Neanderthals. Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Skoltech scientists and their colleagues from Germany and the…
Ecological reconstruction of giant rhinos and their accompanying fauna in the Linxia Basin during the Oligocene. Credit: Yu Chen The giant rhino, Paraceratherium, is considered the…
A glasswing butterfly feeding at flowers in Costa Rica. The remarkable transparency of these butterflies allows them to be “invisible,” and the antiglare coating of…