Earliest Homo Populations in Africa Had Primitive Ape-Like Brains – Just Half the Size of Today’s Humans
The human brain as we know it today is relatively young. It evolved about 1.7 million years ago when the culture of stone tools in…
The human brain as we know it today is relatively young. It evolved about 1.7 million years ago when the culture of stone tools in…
In an analysis of thousands of fossil pollen and leaves spanning the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary, researchers found that the cataclysmic asteroid impact that resulted in…
Trilobites Had a Leg Up on Breathing A new study has found the first evidence of sophisticated breathing organs in 450-million-year-old sea creatures. Contrary to…
Ancient predatory insects discovered in region once thought uninhabitable. Fossil discoveries often help answer long-standing questions about how our modern world came to be. However,…
Introducing a “bizarre” shark from the Late Cretaceous that, more than 66 million years ago, plied the seas feasting upon plankton while soaring through the…
By characterizing how ancient life responded to environmental stressors, researchers gain insights into how modern species might fare. Over the course of Earth’s history, several…
About 66 million years ago, a huge asteroid crashed into what is now the Yucatan, plunging the Earth into darkness. The impact transformed tropical rainforests,…
Archaeological evidence in a rock shelter at the edge of the Kalahari Desert, South Africa, is challenging the idea that the origins of our species…
The largest flightless bird ever to live weighed in up to 600kg (1,300 lb) and had a whopping head about half a meter (1.6 ft)…
Ruling in the Late Cretaceous, Llukalkan aliocranianus could be as long as an elephant, had extremely powerful bites, very sharp teeth, and huge claws in…
Paleontologists from the Universities of Bonn and Liverpool examined 14 skulls of Plateosaurus trossingensis. “Everyone’s unique” is a popular maxim. All people are equal, but…
New research led by the University of Bristol has revealed that crocodiles once flourished on land and in the oceans as a result of fast…
In a new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, researchers examined the genomes of more than 400 modern humans to investigate the interbreeding events…
The earliest multicellular organisms may have lacked heads, legs, or arms, but pieces of them remain inside of us today, new research shows. According to…
Researchers discover impacts of Ice Age sea level changes in the genomes of Caribbean and Pacific crocodiles in Panama. Crocodiles are resilient animals from a…
Evolutionary arms races between marine animals overhauled ocean ecosystems on scales similar to the mass extinctions triggered by global disasters, a new study shows. Scientists…
Long-accepted theory of vertebrate origin upended by lamprey fossils. A new study out of the University of Chicago, the Canadian Museum of Nature and the…
Imagine not a white, but a green Arctic, with woody shrubs as far north as the Canadian coast of the Arctic Ocean. This is what…