The ancient diseases that plagued the dinosaurs (www.bbc.com)
Rare museum specimen reveals new insights into how trilobites curled themselves into a ball (phys.org)
Poisonous gas wave may have snuffed out half of all sea life in Earth's 1st mass extinction (www.livescience.com)
Study provides insights into diets of early primates (phys.org)
Turns out our love of sweet food goes back—way back—to our early primate ancestors, a University of Otago-led study has found....
Paleontologist discovers rare soft tissue in fossil of crab (phys.org)
Most animals and plants never fossilize. For those that do, it’s usually only hard parts such as bones and shells that preserve. However, in some exceptional cases, soft tissues such as muscles and gills survive the fossilization process and can present a wealth of information about the biology and ecology of ancient...
Study suggests climate played a crucial role in human migration from Africa (phys.org)
About 6 million years ago, in the deep forests of eastern Africa, something spectacular happened. Chimpanzees, our closest relative in the animal kingdom, evolved in one direction, while our earliest ancestors continued in another....
It turns out, this plant fossil is really a baby turtle fossil (phys.org)
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 the specimens he found were small, round rocks patterned with lines that looked like leaves; he classified them as a type of fossil plant. But in a new study, published in the journal...
Exploring bird-like footprints left by unknown animals in Late Triassic Southern Africa (phys.org)
How shifting climates may have shaped early elephants' trunks (phys.org)
Researchers have provided new insights into how ancestral elephants developed their dextrous trunks....
Brazil's mysterious tunnels made by giant sloths (www.bbc.com)
Earliest known European common hippopotamus fossil reveals their Middle Pleistocene dispersal (phys.org)
Study reveals new clues about how whales and dolphins came to use echolocation (phys.org)
A study published in Diversity provides new insight into how toothed whales and dolphins came to navigate the underwater world using sound waves....
Dinosaurs that died 190 million years ago found with 50 "leathery" eggs (www.newsweek.com)
120 million-year-old birds tracks near South Pole are the oldest ever discovered in the Southern Hemisphere (www.livescience.com)
Single-haplotype comparative genomics provides insights into lineage-specific structural variation during cat evolution - Nature Genetics (www.nature.com)
New Dino Just Dropped: A megaraptorid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) frontal from the upper Strzelecki Group (Lower Cretaceous) of Victoria, Australia (www.sciencedirect.com)
Mosasaurs Were Picky Eaters, New Research Suggests | Sci.News (www.sci.news)
New analysis of ancient fish may explain how shoulder evolved (phys.org)
The Oldest Known Burial Site in The World Wasn't Made by Our Species (www.sciencealert.com)
Girl discovers 100,000-year-old mammoth bones in Russian river while fishing with dad (www.livescience.com)
Dust from the dino-killing impact ushered in years of global darkness (www.livescience.com)
About 66 million years ago, a city-size asteroid slammed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula, ushering in a long period of darkness that snuffed out the nonavian dinosaurs. Researchers have long debated exactly what aspect of this event, known as the Chicxulub impact, caused the rapid change in climate. Was it sulfur...
New species of croc-like creature from 250 million years ago discovered (www.newsweek.com)
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Ancient skeletons of largest-ever marsupial unearthed in Australia (www.livescience.com)
Oldest family of jewel wasps discovered in Cretaceous amber from Lebanon (phys.org)
Bizarre new fossils shed light on ancient plankton (phys.org)
A scientist from the University of Leicester has discovered a new type of fossil that reveals life in the oceans half a billion years ago. The tiny organisms, detailed in a new study in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, resemble modern-day algae and might also give scientists an insight into...
