Tag: Paleontology
Tiny cut marks on animal bone fossils reveal that human ancestors...
Briana Pobiner, Smithsonian Institution; Sabrina Curran, Ohio University, and Virgil Drãgușin, Academia Română
Looking again through the magnifying lens...
Ferns’ ability to evolve ‘backward’ offers insights into the meandering path...
Jacob S. Suissa, University of Tennessee
Imagine a photograph of your great-grandparents, grandparents and parents side by side. You’d...
Horses lived in the Americas for millions of years – new...
Stephanie Killingsworth, University of Florida and Bruce J. MacFadden, University of Florida
Many people assume that horses first came...
A changing climate, growing human populations and widespread fires contributed to...
Emily Lindsey, University of California, Los Angeles; Lisa N. Martinez, University of California, Los Angeles, and Regan E. Dunn, USC Dornsife College...
Millions of years ago, the megalodon ruled the oceans – why...
Michael Heithaus, Florida International University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages....
Yorkicystis, the 500 million-year-old relative of starfish that lost its skeleton
Samuel Zamora, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME - CSIC)
After four years of digging for fossils in...
Ancient shark teeth lost in Antarctica millions of years ago recorded...
Sora Kim, University of California, Merced
Tens of million years ago, sand tiger sharks hunted in the waters off...
A volcanic eruption 39 million years ago buried a forest in...
Deborah Woodcock, Clark University and Herb Meyer, National Park Service
In the hills outside the small village of Sexi,...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
