A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...
Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...
Scientists prepared a high-quality sequence of the giant mammal’s genome based on a specimen preserved in Siberian permafrost.
A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...
Seemingly overnight, things are happening that have the potential to result in an extinction-level event for movies as we know them. Of course, movies didn’t go away. They took a major hit, one ...
A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s greatest extinction. Tens of thousands of fossils reveal fully aquatic ...
Analysis of woolly rhinoceros DNA recovered from the permafrost-preserved wolf further hints that the Ice Age beasts went ...
A major review of over 67,000 animal species has found that while the natural world continues to face a biodiversity crisis, targeted conservation efforts are helping bring many species back from the ...
This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The hell ant existed over 100 million years ago, ...
In an intriguing twist of geological history, Montana's ancient river systems have been found remarkably undeterred by the Cretaceousâ Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event that wiped out non-avian ...
The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the museum’s collection Jack Tamisiea The newly-described early pterosaur ...
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