How life bounced back after 90% of species died off in history’s largest mass...
Scientists have discovered that bottom-burrowing animals were among the first to bounce back after the mass extinction at the end of the Permian period...
Scientists find rare wild ancestors of feral pigeons on British and Irish islands
Researchers led by members of Oxford University's Department of Biology have found rare colonies of the wild ancestors of common domestic and feral pigeons.
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Dinosaurs took over amid ice, not warmth, shows mass extinction study
Many of us know the conventional theory of how the dinosaurs died 66 million years ago:
In Earth’s fiery collision with a meteorite, and a...
Dog ancestry can be traced to two Ice Age wolf populations
An international group of geneticists and archaeologists, led by the Francis Crick Institute, have found that the ancestry of dogs can be traced to...
Scientists discover bizarre meat-eating dinosaur in Egypt’s Sahara Desert.
Researchers at Ohio University and other institutions have discovered a new kind of large-bodied meat-eating dinosaur, or theropod, from a celebrated fossil site in...
Ancient microbes may help us find extraterrestrial life forms
Using light-capturing proteins in living microbes, scientists have reconstructed what life was like for some of Earth’s earliest organisms.
These efforts could help us recognize...
Great white sharks may have contributed to megalodon extinction
Using zinc isotopes, researchers investigated the diet of the megalodon, the largest shark to have ever lived
Megatooth sharks like Otodus megalodon, more commonly known...
This extinct giant crocodile species likely preyed on human ancestors
Millions of years ago, giant dwarf crocodiles roamed a part of Africa with a taste for our human ancestors.
In a new study, researchers led...
Scientists discover Europe’s largest land predator on the Isle of Wight
Paleontologists have identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest-ever land-based hunters: a dinosaur that measured over 10m long and lived around 125 million...
This new dinosaur used fearsome claws to graze along the coast
Scientists have described the youngest therizinosaur fossil from Japan and the first in Asia to have been found in marine sediments.
Therizinosaurs were a large...