Scientists studying a Caribbean island cave have unearthed something unexpected: ancient bees very much unlike the hive-dwelling insects we’re most familiar with. For the first time ever, paleontologists…
Read more Fossilized Bee Nests Inside Skeletons Are Unlike Anything We’ve Seen BeforeBy Diego Vara PARAISO DO SUL, Brazil (Reuters) -When physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio unearthed a fossil in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state in 2014, he…
Read more Brazilian physician hails love of paleontology that led to major ancient reptile discoverySometimes the greatest discoveries are actually rediscoveries. In Canada, for example, researchers revealed North America’s most northeasterly woolly mammoth find after taking a second look at a mammoth…
Read more Rediscovered Fossil Redraws the Map of Woolly Mammoth TerritoryIn the badlands of eastern Wyoming, the Lance Formation is a trove of prehistoric fossils. And one area in particular — a region less than 10 kilometers (6…
Read more PHOTOS: 66 million-year-old dinosaur ‘mummy’ skin was actually a perfect clay maskNewswise — Credit for discovering the first dinosaur bones usually goes to British gentlemen for their finds between the 17th and 19th centuries in England. Robert Plot, an English…
Read more Africans discovered fossils firstNewswise — From the 1950s to the 1970s, a Colombian priest named Padre Gustavo Huertas collected rocks and fossils near a town called Villa de Levya. Two of…
Read more Fossil plant revealed as a baby turtle fossil.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 over a five…
Read more Plesiosaurs doubled their neck-length by gaining new vertebraeBYLINE: 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 fossils of their…
Read more The modern sea spider had started to diversify by the Jurassic, study findsNewswise — 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 animal was nicknamed…
Read more New pterosaur nicknamed ‘Elvis’ takes flightNewswise — What would a traveler from the future think if one day s/he could analyze the rocks that are currently forming on the planet? Surely, this person…
Read more Amber abundance in Cretaceous rocks: What’s the reason?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 prehistoric wind instruments…
Read more Earliest Levantine wind instruments foundBYLINE: Laura Thomas Newswise — A team of researchers from the University of Bristol have shed light on the life of the ancient reptile Rhynchosaur, which walked the…
Read more Ancient herbivore’s diet weakened teeth leading to eventual starvation, study suggestsNewswise — LAWRENCE — Cycads, a group of gymnosperms which can resemble miniature palm trees (like the popular sago palm houseplant) were long thought to be “living fossils,”…
Read more Fossil Discovery Revises Cycad Plant HistoryNewswise — All that glitters is not gold, or even fool’s gold in the case of fossils. A recent study by scientists at The University of Texas at…
Read more “Golden” Fossils Show Exceptional Preservation OriginsNewswise — New fossils in amber have revealed that beetles fed on the feathers of dinosaurs about 105 million years ago, showing a symbiotic relationship of one-sided or…
Read more Feathered Dinosaurs & Feather-Feeding Beetles: A Long-Term BondNewswise — The story of human evolution has long been a tale of a forested Africa that gradually became drier, giving rise to open grasslands and causing our…
Read more Africa: Open Habitats 10M Yrs Older Than Thought – New StudiesLondon CNN — In the venerated halls of London’s Natural History Museum, one of the largest animals ever to walk the Earth is about to make its debut.…
Read more Meet the titanosaur: Dinosaur giant goes on display in Europe for the first time | CNNNewswise — A new study investigates how an extinct, carnivorous marsupial relative with canines so large they extended across the top of its skull could hunt effectively despite…
Read more How the “marsupial sabertooth” thylacosmilus saw its worldA new fossil discovery dating from ‘just’ a few million years after the greatest mass extinction provides the earliest evidence of the insect group that includes mosquitoes and…
Read more Discovery of oldest known fossil gnat shows how insects adapted to a postapocalyptic worldNewswise — Leipzig/Halle. Islands are “laboratories of evolution” and home to animal species with many unique features, including dwarfs that evolved to very small sizes compared to their…
Read more Insular dwarfs and giants more likely to go extinct
