Braincase and endocast of Thecodontosaurus antiquus. From CT scans of the braincase fossil, 3-D models of the braincase and the endocast were generated and studied.…
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A new study applies machine learning to the fossil record to visualize life’s history, showing the impacts of major evolutionary events. This shows the long-term…
A skeleton of an island fox. Credit: University of Missouri University of Missouri researcher adds to timeline of human evolution by studying an island fox.…
Figs and fig wasps. Credit: WANG Gang Banyan trees are fig trees that begin their life as an epiphyte. The most noticeable feature of banyan…
Mass extinctions align with major asteroid impacts and devastating volcanic outpourings of lava called flood-basalt eruptions. Researchers find that timing of mass extinctions lines up…
Researchers at the mouth of the São Vicente Cave system. Credit: Adriano Gambarini From Brazil’s Amazon, researchers report “spooky interactions” among surface- and cave-dwelling electric…
Mysterious Prehistoric “Sea Dragon” Discovered on English Channel Coast Is Identified As New Species
Illustration of Thalassodraco etchesi. Credit: Megan Jacobs “This animal was obviously doing something different,” Baylor University paleontologist says. A mysterious small marine reptile dating from…
Remnants of feather sheaths on the wings of the fossil bird Archaeopteryx, shows the earliest evidence of a complex moulting strategy. The white arrows indicate…
Compared to chimpanzees, our closest evolutionary cousins, humans are particularly prone to developing advanced carcinomas, even in the absence of known risk factors. A UC…
Despite their excellent auditory capacities, dogs do not attend to differences between words which differ only in one speech sound (e.g. dog vs dig), according…
An artist’s reconstruction of ‘Anomalocaris’ briggsi swimming within the twilight zone. Credit: Katrina Kenny Ancient marine creatures called radiodonts had incredible vision that likely drove…
The gray mouse lemur, the smallest species of primates, has excellent vision. More than one fifth of his cerebral cortex is dedicated to visual processing…
Injection of CRISPR solution into crustacean embryos (Parhyale hawaiiensis). Credit: Heather Bruce It sounds like a “Just So Story” — “How the Insect Got its…
Adult female and juvenile Popa langur (Trachypithecus popa) in the crater of Mount Popa, Myanmar. Credit: Thaung Win A new primate species dubbed the Popa…
Illustration depicting the early bird Falcatakely amidst nonavian dinosaurs and other creatures during the Late Cretaceous in Madagascar. Credit: Mark Witton Rare cretaceous-age fossil opens…
Leipzig is host to the oldest botanical garden in Germany. On an area of only three hectares, around 6500 of the 350,000 plant species worldwide…
Live reconstruction of the early sauropod Bagualia alba. Credit: Jorge Gonzales Global warming triggered the evolution of giant dinosaurs. An international team of paleontologists, including…
By cutting into fossils and examining growth rings, scientists learned how predatory dinosaurs got so big. Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the biggest meat-eating dinosaurs…
A young Tasmanian devil. Tasmanian devils are endangered by devil facial tumor 1 (DFT1), a transmissible cancer. Credit: Maximilian Stammnitz Genomic analysis may help efforts…
False-color 3D representation of a 0.21 mm x 0.28 mm wing section of the moth Lasiocampa quercus showing structure, diversity and arrangement of base scales…