Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...
The molecular clock is based on a simple idea: genetic changes happen gradually and predictably over time. By working ...
Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.
An African hominin population that existed very early in the Homo sapiens lineage is providing new insights into humanity's ...
For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...
Two perfectly round dinosaur eggs found in China weren't hiding bones, but something far more unexpected. What scientists ...
Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...
A fossil plant smaller than a fingernail, collected more than a century ago from a Scottish rock bed, is reshaping the story ...
Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Lakehead University, Ontario, obtained samples of rock salt ...
Rocks, boulders, bluffs and crags abound during a hike along the 1.5-mile Shaddox Hollow Trail at Hobbs State ...
A new study in Nature led by scientists at New York University reports that fossil bones as old as 3 million years still ...
The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...
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