After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...
Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of ...
An international team of scientists led by the Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC) has described a new species of fossilized ...
For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use—people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibers, or easing gum pain with makeshift "toothpicks." ...
That understanding has been solidified in a one-of-a-kind fossil that’s thought to be the first-ever remains of a ...
The opening pages of the 1943 book The Little Prince recall how the narrator, as a child, once drew a picture not of a hat — as every adult insisted it was — but of a boa constrictor that had ...
Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...
A 437-million-year-old fossil from a deposit in Wisconsin could be the oldest species of leech ever found. By Jack Tamisiea If you look around Waukesha County in Wisconsin today, it can be difficult ...
Scientists have named a new ichthyosaur, Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, from fossils found in Mistelgau, Germany. The marine reptile had a dramatic overbite similar to swordfish and unique skeletal ...
Tesla Monson receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Andrew Weitz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...
The arrangement of the bones that form the joint (the articulation) between the lower jaw and the skull is a key hallmark of vertebrates. Their configuration has long been used to draw a line in the ...