PALEONTOLOGY

Fossil of mosasaur with bizarre ‘screwdriver teeth’ found in Morocco

Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, a sea-dwelling lizard from the age of the dinosaurs, with strange, ridged teeth unlike those of...

Fossilized inner ears of fish used to correlate marine ecosystem health with ocean temperature over 460,000 years

Research by the Biodiversity Research Center and Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University in Taiwan, has linked intermediate-depth fish populations and diversity to ocean...

Dinosaurs were the first to take the perspectives of others

When someone near you turns their head towards something in the environment, you likely can’t help to follow their gaze direction. This reaction is...

What was the largest dinosaurs?

Introduction Dinosaurs were some of the largest creatures to ever roam the earth. These prehistoric giants come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from...

Geoscientists shed a light on life’s evolution 800 million years ago

Is nitrate responsible for algae, flowers, and even your neighbors? A team of Virginia Tech geoscientists have unearthed evidence that may indicate yes. The team's...

A fossil fruit from California shows ancestors of coffee and potatoes survived cataclysm that killed the dinosaurs

The discovery of an 80-million-year-old fossil plant pushes back the known origins of lamiids to the Cretaceous, extending the record of nearly 40,000 species...

319-million-year-old fish preserves the earliest fossilized brain of a backboned animal

The CT-scanned skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest...

Earth’s oldest known environmental clean-up was 400 million years ago, finds fossil analysis

Analysis of world-renowned plant fossils in north-east Scotland has revealed the oldest evidence for environmental clean-up on Earth, over 400 million years ago. The discovery...

525-million-year-old fossil defies textbook explanation for brain evolution

Fossils of a tiny sea creature that died more than half a billion years ago may compel a science textbook rewrite of how brains...

Rare fossil clam discovered alive

Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that everyone assumed had been lost to the passage of time....

Glowing fossils: Fluorescence reveals color patterns of earliest scallops

UV light makes it possible to see intricate structures of fossils that are barely visible in normal daylight. This method has often been used...

500 million year-old fossils reveal answer to evolutionary riddle

The first animals to build hard and robust skeletons appear suddenly in the fossil record in a geological blink of an eye around 550-520...

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