Ancient humans settled near Israel's Hula Lake 800,000 years ago. New research reveals driftwood availability was a key ...

Stone tools from the Revilleja de Valparaíso site. Credit: Francisco-Javier García-Vadillo / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 A set of ancient ...

An egg fossil proving that bird-like dinosaurs lived on the Korean Peninsula during the Cretaceous period approximately 100 ...

Researcher Estefany Illueca opens a refrigerator to show where the Chytrid fungus, which is killing Panama's golden frog population, is preserved for study at the Center for Tropical Paleoecology and ...

Antelope bone fragment in rock from the 3-million-year-old early human site, Makapansgaat (South Africa). Its bone marrow cavity is filled with a white carbonate-rich precipitate. Palaeometabolomics ...

For the first time, scientists have analyzed metabolism-related molecules from the fossilized bones of animals that lived 1.3 to 3 million years ago, revealing insights about both the animals and ...

Margaret Bryan Davis, a prominent ecologist, died on May 22, 2024. She was a Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Her students remember ...

The broken wings of two young pterosaurs may reveal how hundreds of their kind met their end about 150 million years ago. The culprit was probably a violent windstorm that proved too powerful for the ...

Understanding how ancient species arranged themselves in space is a key puzzle in paleoecology, but direct evidence of how prehistoric organisms used their body structures to regulate spacing has long ...

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This study reports the first discovery of bivalves (family Alatoconchidae) from the Middle Permian Maokou Formation in Jingmen City, Hubei Province, South China. These newly identified fossil ...