Some whittled down to just 30 percent of their original size, an adaptation to increasing temperatures known as the ...

The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.

The colossus penguin was probably a good hunter; Because larger penguins are known to be able to hold their breath longer, ...

This prehistoric quadruped discovered on the coast of Peru was similar to a modern-day otter or beaver — except it was 13 ...

The fossils were thought to be nummulites ... and north of Hooker's locality and proved a sequence from Jurassic to Eocene ; he suggested that Hooker's limestone might be the equivalent of ...

Now, a new discovery offers a clearer picture of their external appearance: Scientists re-examined an old plesiosaur fossil, which had been sitting in a museum’s storage for decades, and ...

It is the first time researchers use data from ... New Fossil Discovery Sheds Light on the Early Evolution of Animal Nervous Systems Jan. 10, 2025 — An international team of scientists has ...

The Secrets of Fossil Teeth Revealed by the Synchrotron: A Long Childhood Is the Prelude to the Evolution of a Large Brain Nov. 13, 2024 — Could social bonds be the key to human big brains?

A cosmic fossil record The team tackled the challenging task of determining the spin of black holes using the SDSS’s Reverberation Mapping project. This project has been making extremely precise ...

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About 19,000 years ago, a woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. In 1996, archaeologists started exploring the cave, finding abundant evidence of ...