Tag: Paleontology
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
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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,...
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,...
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...
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...