PALEONTOLOGY

Tropical riparian ecosystems—those found along rivers and wetlands—recovered much faster than expected following the end-Permian mass extinction around 252 million years ago, according to new research. The study, published February 14 as a Reviewed Preprint in eLife,...
Literal groundbreaking research by Dr. Giorgio Arriga enhances our understanding of the long-term evolution of seismogenic (earthquake-related) faults in the Apennines of Central Italy. Arriga's study examines the development of fault systems over millions of years...

Near-complete skull discovery reveals ‘top apex,’ leopard-sized carnivore

A rare discovery of a nearly complete skull in the Egyptian desert has led scientists to the "dream" revelation of a new 30-million-year-old species...

Earth’s magnetic field triggers a superpower in sea turtles that makes them ‘dance’

One of Earth’s deepest mysteries lies beneath our feet: the planet’s inner core. Made of iron and nickel, the hot, solid sphere is about 70%...

Tigers, zebras and other stuffed animals will get new homes after health concerns kept them hidden

Crocodiles, monkeys, tigers, zebras and dozens of other taxidermy animals will move to new homes after concerns about arsenic exposure forced the closure of...

France finds smuggled dinosaur teeth in parcels bound for Italy

French customs officers seized nine dinosaur teeth last month from a courier truck transiting through the country from Spain on its way to Italy,...

Underwater fossil bed discovered by collectors preserves rare slice of Florida’s past

About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida's Big Bend region and died. The sinkhole...

China Jurassic fossil discovery sheds light on bird origin

A research team led by Professor Wang Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has...

Ancient pterosaur bones could inspire the future of aerospace engineering

The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could hold the key to lighter, stronger materials for the next generation of aircraft, new research has found. Scientists...

Museum fossils go to space

The recent launch of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket marked several historic milestones. The 21-year-old crew member Karsen Kitchen set a record for the...

Soft tissue of a plesiosaur reveals it had scales similar to those of sea turtles

A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of plesiosaur had scales on its flippers...

The fossil skull that rocked the world—the Taung find’s complex colonial legacy 100 years later

Here's how the story of the Taung Child is usually told: In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of...

Britain has a new snake species—should climate change mean it is allowed to stay?

All animals live in or seek a set of climate conditions they find tolerable. This "climate envelope" partially determines where animals are found, but...

How a student’s teenage curiosity led to the first megalodon discovery in Canada

Louis-Philippe Bateman's fascination with megalodon began with a single sentence in a book about Canada's geological evolution. It described giant, mysterious fossilized shark teeth...

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