Tag: fossils
Ancient bird skull found in amber was tiny predator in the...
Lars Schmitz, Claremont McKenna College and Jingmai Kathleen O'Connor, Chinese Academy of Sciences
In 2016, our colleague Xing Lida held up a small piece of...
Climate change created today’s large crocodiles
Pedro L. Godoy, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
What does the term crocodylian bring to mind? A big reptile with a...
I’m an evolutionary biologist – here’s why this ancient fungal fossil...
Antonis Rokas, Vanderbilt University
Biologists don’t call them “the hidden kingdom” for nothing. With an estimated 5 million species, only a mere 100,000 fungi are...
Last of the giants: What killed off Madagascar’s megafauna a thousand...
Nick Scroxton, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Laurie Godfrey, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Stephen Burns, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Giant 10-foot-tall elephant birds, with eggs...
Welcome to the new Meghalayan age – here’s how it fits...
Steve Petsch, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jurassic, Pleistocene, Precambrian. The named times in Earth’s history might inspire mental images of dinosaurs, trilobites or other enigmatic...
Pigments from microbes provide clue to evolution in ancient oceans –...
Patricia L. Foster, Indiana University
Possibly the most significant event in the evolution of life on Earth occurred 2.4 billion years ago. That was when...
Fossil jawbone from Israel is the oldest modern human found outside...
Rolf Quam, Binghamton University, State University of New York
New fossil finds over the past few years have been forcing anthropologists to reexamine our evolutionary...