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Showing posts with label Paleontology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paleontology. Show all posts
Friday, December 26, 2025

Paleontology: In-Depth Description

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / AI generated Paleontology is the scientific study of the history of life on Earth as based on fossils. ...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

What Is: The Phanerozoic Eon

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Defining the Eon of Complex Life Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / AI generated The Phanerozoic Eon constitutes the current and most biol...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Bear teeth break free – Researchers discover the origin of unusual bear dentition

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Lower jaw of a polar bear The polar bear has a second molar that is only slightly larger than the first. Although the polar bear is a carniv...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Australopithecus deyiremeda, an ancestor of the human species discovered in Ethiopia, was bipedal and climbed trees

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Professor Lluís Gibert, from the University of Barcelona, is the only expert from a European institution participating in an international s...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Looping long-necked dinosaur site reveals its secrets

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An aerial view of the loop section of the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite in Colorado. Photo Credit: Dr. Paul Murphey An analysis of a uni...
Monday, November 17, 2025

The world’s oldest RNA extracted from woolly mammoth

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“Such studies could fundamentally reshape our understanding of extinct megafauna as well as other species, revealing the many hidden layers ...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Ancient mammoth tooth offers clues about Ice Age life in northeastern Canada

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / AI generated The re-examination of a 19th-century fossil indicates that woolly mammoths once roamed muc...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Scientists Confirmed That a "Terrible" Hyena Lived in the Territory of the Modern Caucasus

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The scientists used morphometric and morphological analysis of teeth. Photo Credit: Daniyar Khantemirov Ural scientists with colleagues from...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Did Lead Limit Brain and Language Development in Neanderthals and Other Extinct Hominids?

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UC San Diego researchers have found high levels of lead in the teeth of both Neanderthals (left) and modern humans (right). However, a gene ...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Fossilized feces help bring prehistoric worlds to life — in molecular detail

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Image Credit: Courtesy of Curtin University An international research team led by Curtin University has used prehistoric feces to better und...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

A Paleontologist Has Discovered a Tooth of an Extinct Carnivorous Whale in the Sverdlovsk Region

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The unique find belonged to a giant aquatic mammal that lived 37 million years ago Photo Credit: Maxim Sinitsa In the Sverdlovsk region, pal...
Saturday, February 8, 2025

Women of Science: A Legacy of Achievement

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Future generations to pursue their passions and break down barriers in the pursuit of knowledge. Image Credit: Scientific Frontline stock im...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Apex predators in prehistoric Colombian oceans would have snacked on killer whales today

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. Illustration of some of the apex predators in the Paja Formation biota with a human for scale. Illustration Credit: Guillermo Torres, Hace...
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

In the evolution of walking, the hip bone connected to the rib bones

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New reconstruction of the skeleton of Tiktaalik roseae, a 375-million-year-old fossil fish. In a new study, researchers used micro-CT imagin...
Monday, March 25, 2024

Persian plateau unveiled as crucial hub for early human migration out of Africa

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Pebdeh Cave located in the southern Zagros Mountains. Pebdeh was occupied by hunter-gatherers as early as 42,000 years ago. Photo Credit: Mo...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Research uncovers a rare resin fossil find: A spider that aspires to be an ant

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Ant-mimicking spider in fossilized resin Photo Credit: George Poinar Jr / Oregon State University Arachnophobia can make humans flee at the ...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Rays were more diverse 150 million years ago than previously thought

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Aellopobatis bavarica: The newly discovered species, complete fossils are only known from Germany. This species is also the largest species ...
Friday, February 23, 2024

Killer instinct drove evolution of mammals’ predatory ancestors

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Inostrancevia, a more advanced predatory synapsid and one of the first sabertoothed carnivores, from the late Permian (~259-252 Million year...
Monday, February 12, 2024

Ancient air-breathing fish comes to surface

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Life reconstruction of Harajicadectes zhumini, a 40 cm long lobe-finned fish that is not too distantly related to the fishes that gave rise ...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Insects already had a variety of defense strategies in the Cretaceous

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Larva of a wedge-shaped beetle in amber, which could have lived inside other insects like its modern counterparts.  Image Credit: © Carolin ...