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[ad_1] Newswise — Credit for discovering the first dinosaur bones usually goes to British gentlemen for their finds between the 17th and 19th centuries in England. Robert...
[ad_1] Newswise — From the 1950s to the 1970s, a Colombian priest named Padre Gustavo Huertas collected rocks and fossils near a town called Villa de...
[ad_1] BYLINE: Laura Thomas Newswise — Plesiosaurs gained their famous long necks rapidly, researchers have shown. Their lengthy necks, used for chasing fast-moving fishes, developed quickly...
[ad_1] BYLINE: Laura Thomas Newswise — An extremely rare collection of 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France are closely related to living species, unlike older...
[ad_1] Newswise — A new 145-million-year-old pterosaur (extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs) was named today by a team of British, American and German researchers. The...
[ad_1] Newswise — What would a traveler from the future think if one day s/he could analyze the rocks that are currently forming on the planet?...
[ad_1] Newswise — Although the prehistoric site of Eynan-Mallaha in northern Israel has been thoroughly examined since 1955, it still holds some surprises for scientists. Seven...
[ad_1] BYLINE: Laura Thomas Newswise — A team of researchers from the University of Bristol have shed light on the life of the ancient reptile Rhynchosaur,...
[ad_1] Newswise — LAWRENCE — Cycads, a group of gymnosperms which can resemble miniature palm trees (like the popular sago palm houseplant) were long thought to...
[ad_1] Newswise — All that glitters is not gold, or even fool’s gold in the case of fossils. A recent study by scientists at The University...
[ad_1] Newswise — New fossils in amber have revealed that beetles fed on the feathers of dinosaurs about 105 million years ago, showing a symbiotic relationship...
[ad_1] Newswise — The story of human evolution has long been a tale of a forested Africa that gradually became drier, giving rise to open grasslands...
[ad_1] London CNN — In the venerated halls of London’s Natural History Museum, one of the largest animals ever to walk the Earth is about to...
[ad_1] Newswise — A new study investigates how an extinct, carnivorous marsupial relative with canines so large they extended across the top of its skull could...
[ad_1] A new fossil discovery dating from ‘just’ a few million years after the greatest mass extinction provides the earliest evidence of the insect group that...
[ad_1] Newswise — Leipzig/Halle. Islands are “laboratories of evolution” and home to animal species with many unique features, including dwarfs that evolved to very small sizes...
[ad_1] Newswise — Along the shores of Africa’s Lake Victoria in Kenya roughly 2.9 million years ago, early human ancestors used some of the oldest stone tools ever...
[ad_1] Newswise — Around 12,000 years ago, the Neolithic revolution radically changed the economy, diet and structure of the first human societies in the Fertile Crescent...
[ad_1] Newswise — Attempts to discredit human-caused climate change by touting graphs of prehistoric atmospheric carbon dioxide and temperature changes are not something new. Peter Clack,...
[ad_1] Newswise — Tsukuba, Japan—It’s often assumed that island plant and animal populations are just the simple, fragile cousins of those on the mainland. But now,...