Ancient kauri tree log from Ngawha, New Zealand. Credit: Nelson Parker Radiocarbon measurements on the remains of 42,000-year-old New Zealand kauri trees provide the basis…
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Ecological reconstruction of Cretophengodes azari. Credit: Dinghua Yang Bioluminescence has fascinated people since time immemorial. The majority of organisms able to produce their own light…
New research suggests that overhunting by humans was not responsible for the extinction of mammoths, ground sloths, and other North American megafauna. A new study…
CO2 Dip May Have Aided Herbivores on a 6,500-Mile Trek A new paper refines estimates of when herbivorous dinosaurs must have traversed North America on…
The colorful banded Tepees are part of the Blue Mesa Member, a geological feature about 220 million to 225 million years old in the Chinle…
Artist’s impression of Macrospondylus- an extinct fossil group of teleosauriods. Credit: Nikolay Zverkov Scientists probing a prehistoric crocodile group’s shadowy past have discovered a timeless…
Microscopic image of the fungus-like filamentous microfossils. Credit: Andrew Czaja of University of Cincinnati When you think of fungi, what comes to mind may be…
Cantabrigiaster fezouataensis from the Lower Ordovician (Tremadocian) Fezouata Shale, Zagora Morocco. Credit: Collections of the Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 Researchers from the University of…
Life reconstruction of the head of Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus based on newly discovered remains. Credit: Copyright Andrey Atuchin The first new skull of a rare species…
The aerial scene depicts two Late Devonian early tetrapods — Ichthyostega and Acanthostega — coming out of the water to move on land. Footprints trail…
Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois). Credit: Jenny – Flickr CC BY 2.0 Fossil Burrows Point to Ancient Seafloor Colonization by Giant Marine Worms Giant ambush-predator worms,…
A reconstruction of Psittacosaurus illustrating how the cloacal vent may have been used for signalling during courtship. Credit: Bob Nicholls/Paleocreations.com 2020 For the first time…
Recovered from the Green River Formation in present-day Colorado, this fossil represents a new genus and species of predatory insects known as assassin bugs. Researchers…
The Burgess Shale food web is one of eight ancient food webs that were analyzed for similarities. Credit: Jennifer Dunne If you want to understand…
Otodus megalodon preying upon the whale Cethoterium. Credit: Hugo Salais, Metazoa Studio A pioneering study by University of Bristol researchers finds that the evolution of…
Mollusks of a sample from Southern Israel: in red, those belonging to species of Red Sea origin, in blue, those of Mediterranean origin. Native species…
Saber-toothed cubs playing. Credit: Illustration by Danielle Dufault © Royal Ontario Museum Like many of today’s millennials, adolescent Sabre-Toothed Cats stayed with family longer than…
Humans feeding leftover lean meat to wolves during harsh winters may have had a role in the early domestication of dogs, towards the end of…
New research by scientists at the University of Bristol explains how a “stop-start” pattern of evolution, governed by environmental change, could explain why crocodiles have…
The newly described python species Messelopython freyi is the world’s oldest known fossil record of a python. Credit: Senckenberg Fossils suggest that the constrictors’ origin…