Tag: fossils
Early humans used fire to permanently change the landscape tens of...
Jessica Thompson, Yale University; David K. Wright, University of Oslo, and Sarah Ivory, Penn State
Fields of rust-colored soil,...
Nocturnal dinosaurs: Night vision and superb hearing in a small theropod...
Lars Schmitz, Scripps College; Jonah Choiniere, University of the Witwatersrand, and Roger Benson, University of Oxford
Today, barn owls,...
Early humans used fire to permanently change the landscape tens of...
Jessica Thompson, Yale University; David K. Wright, University of Oslo, and Sarah Ivory, Penn State
Fields of rust-colored soil,...
How many Tyrannosaurus Rex walked the Earth?
Ashley Poust, University of California, Berkeley and Daniel Varajão de Latorre, University of California, Berkeley
The Research Brief is...
Why do scientists care about worms?
Helen Robertson, University of Chicago
I traveled to a marine research station on a picturesque Swedish fjord many times over the four years I worked...
We discovered a 115,000-year-old iguana nest fossil in the Bahamas
Anthony J. Martin, Emory University and Melissa Hage, Emory University
A pregnant iguana dug into a vegetated sand dune about 115,000 years ago on a...
Fossil tracks reveal which birds once roamed South Africa’s Cape south...
Charles Helm, Nelson Mandela University
If you visit a particular stretch of South Africa’s Cape South coast, about 400km east of Cape Town, you are...
When did we become fully human? What fossils and DNA tell...
Nick Longrich, University of Bath
When did something like us first appear on the planet? It turns out there’s remarkably little agreement on this question....
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
