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Genetic Study Reveals Ancient Ancestral Change Linked to Human Tail Loss
At a Glance A recent study led by researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine has uncovered a…
Is That a Boy or a Girl T. Rex?
Fossil preparator Bob Harmon discovered the femur of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, which led to the excavation of almost…
Animals Have Been Around For a Long Time—Perhaps Even Longer Than We Once Thought
A recently-discovered group of fossils, dating back almost a billion years, revealed a once-thriving microbial ecosystem of prokaryotic…
We Found a Pile of Mammoth Bones. What Were They For?
Enormous piles of wooly mammoth bones dating back to the end of the last ice age have been…
A 365-million-year-old fish with an extreme underbite showcases vertebrate diversity
Artist reconstruction of Alienacanthus malkowskii, a 365-million-year-old placoderm fish from Poland and Morocco. (Beat Scheffold & Christian Klug),…
Early humans reached northwest Europe 45,000 years ago, new research shows
View of the new excavations in front of what is currently left of the Ilsenhoehle under the Ranis…
Get to Know Some of Humanity’s Cousins
The Paranthropus genus, a group of hominins closely related to humans and chimpanzees, took a different evolutionary path…
Ancient Microbes “Rafted” on Ancient Bug Shells Out to Sea
The Cambrian Period saw the emergence of the first groups with hard body parts, such as early arthropods…
Ancient Microbial Diversity Unveiled in Australian Mudflats
At a Glance In a groundbreaking study published in the journal Papers in Paleontology, researchers from UC Santa…
19-million-year-old fossil jaw bone hints the biggest whales first evolved somewhere unexpected
The baleen whale fossil at Museums Victoria Research Institute. Eugene Hyland, Museums Victoria James Patrick Rule, Monash University…