A new study using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) has revealed that the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 ...
Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs ...
The fossil record offers a unique window into the history of predator–prey interactions, revealing the evolution of predatory strategies and prey defences over geological timescales. Evidence such as ...
The fossil record of sharks and related elasmobranchs offers a comprehensive window into the evolutionary dynamics that have shaped marine ecosystems over millions of years. From preserved teeth and ...
In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of scientists highlights the discovery of well-preserved blue-stain fungal hyphae within a Jurassic fossil wood from northeastern China, ...
Parasites of Fossil Vertebrates: What We Know and What can We Expect from the Fossil Record? / Tommy L. F. Leung -- Fossil Record of Viruses, Parasitic Bacteria and Parasitic Protozoa / George Poinar ...
Artistic reconstruction of a newly hatched troodontid-like dinosaur resting among fragments of its eggshell (loosely based on Mongolian microtroodontid-type). These eggshells, when buried within ...
In a groundbreaking discovery in Brunei, scientists have found two-million-year-old fossils of Dryobalanops rappa—an endangered tropical tree that still lives today. The find marks the first fossil ...
Beginning with a recently discovered 47-million-year-old primate fossil, Switek effectively and eloquently demonstrates the exponential increase in fossils that have been found since Darwin first ...
Darwin's dilemma: paleontology, the fossil record, and evolutionary theory -- The growth of theoretical paleontology -- The rise of quantitative paleobiology -- From paleoecology to paleobiology -- ...
Ian Towle receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC DP240101081). Luca Fiorenza receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC DP240101081). For decades, small grooves on ...