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You’ll never know who spoke the first sentence or what they said, but you can have fun guessing. Perhaps they came from the mouths of Stone…
New research led by scientists at the University of Bristol shows how lepidosaurs, the most diverse clade of quadrupeds that includes lizards and snakes, evolved an…
Darwin’s ideas began with Alfred Russell Wallace, co-discoverer of natural selection, who disagreed with some aspects of Charles Darwin’s arguments but ultimately realized that most of…
Newly described trilobite genera and species alter one morphological character to overcome challenges and modify another character to fulfill the original function, presenting a unique example…
The trajectories of theropod dinosaurs could be used as indirect evidence of pre-avian aerial behavior, according to a new study. The animals in charge are Dromaeosauriformipes…
ohOtherwise, it would be news that the CEO of one of the world's largest companies endorsed and shared a fabricated headline published by the leader of…
About 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, a 10 km-wide asteroid struck Earth near what is now the town of Chicxulub…
New genus and species of monophenestratan pterosaur named Propterodacillus frankellae It documents the transition from the older rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs to pterodactyloids. The holotype Propterodacillus frankellaeImage credit:…
Is it in the way we live, laugh, love? Or is it our aversion to clichés? Deep inside each of us, there must be something that…
East Africa contains the world’s most complete record of human evolution, yet scientists know little about how long-term biogeographic dynamics in the region have influenced human…
Paleontologists have described a new species of snake that lived during the Early Oligocene of Wyoming, based on four nearly complete, articulated specimens found curled together…
IBlocky World Chipotle Burrito BuilderIn Chipotle, players don the uniforms of the Tex-Mex restaurant chain and make burritos for virtual customers. Available toppings are taken from…
No one doubts that Albert Einstein had a brilliant mind, but the Nobel Prize winner famous for his theories of special and general relativity wasn’t blessed…
Fossil and molecular evidence suggests that complex multicellular organisms arose and proliferated during the Neoproterozoic Era (1-541 million years ago). An extreme glacial period during the…
IEven though it’s the next big game for the PlayStation 5 and it’s in Sony’s DNA, there’s still something Nintendo about Astro Bot. That’s because it’s…
Euchericherata A large group of arthropods that includes horseshoe crabs, scorpions, spiders, mites, ticks, and the extinct sea scorpions and snails. Abundant cetapedites The new species…
Red, yellow, and green are now the colors of traffic lights, but that wasn’t always the case. The first (and disastrous) attempt to install a traffic…
In a new study, a team of paleontologists examined the structure of teeth. Feredkodon Chowi aims to better understand the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary paths of…
Please try to imagine. I remember being on the bus or walking in the park and having an important task slip out of my mind. Maybe…
This stability exists despite the incredible diversity in wing patterns, sizes, and caterpillar morphology across more than 160,000 species worldwide today, according to one study. new…
Microscopic image of a modern cyanobacterium called OscillatoriaShutterstock / Ekki Ilham Researchers have identified photosynthetic structures inside a 1.75 billion-year-old cyanobacteria fossil. This discovery is the…
How will our species evolve in space? If humans were suddenly forced to board a fleet of space arks and abandon Earth, evolution by natural selection…
For the past 40 years, scientists have been using infrared space telescopes to study the universe, including NASA missions such as the Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS)…
Vampire bats are not only masters of flight, but also skillful walkersJoel Sartor/Photo Arc/naturepl.com Something begins to stir in the undergrowth of a New Zealand forest.…
Department of Biological and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University December 15, 2023 Scientists at Harvard University’s Department of Biological and Evolutionary Biology have made an incredible discovery…