Newswise — Credit for discovering the first dinosaur bones usually goes to…
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Fossil plant revealed as a baby turtle fossil.
Newswise — From the 1950s to the 1970s, a Colombian priest named…
Plesiosaurs doubled their neck-length by gaining new vertebrae
BYLINE: Laura Thomas Newswise — Plesiosaurs gained their famous long necks rapidly,…
The modern sea spider had started to diversify by the Jurassic, study finds
BYLINE: Laura Thomas Newswise — An extremely rare collection of 160-million-year-old sea…
New pterosaur nicknamed ‘Elvis’ takes flight
Newswise — A new 145-million-year-old pterosaur (extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside…
Amber abundance in Cretaceous rocks: What’s the reason?
Newswise — What would a traveler from the future think if one…
Earliest Levantine wind instruments found
Newswise — Although the prehistoric site of Eynan-Mallaha in northern Israel has…
Ancient herbivore’s diet weakened teeth leading to eventual starvation, study suggests
BYLINE: Laura Thomas Newswise — A team of researchers from the University…
Fossil Discovery Revises Cycad Plant History
Newswise — LAWRENCE — Cycads, a group of gymnosperms which can resemble…
“Golden” Fossils Show Exceptional Preservation Origins
Newswise — All that glitters is not gold, or even fool’s gold…
Feathered Dinosaurs & Feather-Feeding Beetles: A Long-Term Bond
Newswise — New fossils in amber have revealed that beetles fed on…
Africa: Open Habitats 10M Yrs Older Than Thought – New Studies
Newswise — The story of human evolution has long been a tale…
Meet the titanosaur: Dinosaur giant goes on display in Europe for the first time | CNN
London CNN — In the venerated halls of London’s Natural History Museum,…
How the “marsupial sabertooth” thylacosmilus saw its world
Newswise — A new study investigates how an extinct, carnivorous marsupial relative…
Discovery of oldest known fossil gnat shows how insects adapted to a postapocalyptic world
A new fossil discovery dating from ‘just’ a few million years after…
Insular dwarfs and giants more likely to go extinct
Newswise — Leipzig/Halle. Islands are “laboratories of evolution” and home to animal…
2.9-million-year-old butchery site reopens case of who made first stone tools
Newswise — Along the shores of Africa’s Lake Victoria in Kenya roughly…
Evolution of wheat spikes since the Neolithic revolution
Newswise — Around 12,000 years ago, the Neolithic revolution radically changed the…
Tying past mass extinctions with low atmospheric CO2 is false
Newswise — Attempts to discredit human-caused climate change by touting graphs of…
Family tree secrets: Island tree populations older, more diverse than expected
Newswise — Tsukuba, Japan—It’s often assumed that island plant and animal populations…