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Our ancestors may not have needed ape-like feet to climb
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (996+ words) Sooty mangabeys bend the middle of their feet 46 degrees while climbing, matching the ankle bend of chimpanzees and informing debate over the last common ancestor. Climbing a bare tree trunk asks an ankle to bend further than walking ever does....
Fossil bite marks show mammals didn’t always rule the food chain
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (1262+ words) Purussaurus bite marks on fossil bones show a 23-foot crocodile relative killed hoofed mammals weighing up to 4,000 pounds in ancient South America. Saltwater crocodiles in northern Australia hunt horses, cattle, and feral water buffalo. They are the largest crocodiles alive…...
Ancient armored fish survived a massive impact before Earth’s largest mass extinction
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1023+ words) A remarkably complete armored fish fossil from Brazil survived near a massive asteroid crater, revealing an unexpected link to ancient Europe. Near the end of the Permian, an asteroid hit central Brazil and folded the rock layers around the crater…...
Dodos weren’t stupid, and their skulls finally prove it
2+ week, 12+ hour ago (1073+ words) Analysis of dodo bird skulls has helped scientists understand how they observed and interacted with the world before their extinction. Call someone a dodo and nobody asks what you mean. The bird showed little fear of the people who landed…...
Famous names in human evolution may be due for retirement
3+ week, 3+ day ago (803+ words) A new study could reshape human evolution by placing Australopithecus and Paranthropus within an expanded genus Homo. Some of the best-known names in human evolution – including Australopithecus and Paranthropus – may be due for retirement. A new study argues that these…...
Mammal extinction followed the same rules for 130,000 years – until now
3+ week, 3+ day ago (797+ words) Traits that predicted mammal extinction for 130,000 years are changing, raising questions about how scientists identify species most at risk today. For 130,000 years, certain traits reliably predicted which mammals would go extinct and which would survive. A new study suggests that…...
Giant animals may explain how humans spread across the Americas
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1011+ words) Early humans may have spread across the Americas by specializing in giant prey such as mammoths, ground sloths, and gomphotheres. Near the end of the last Ice Age, the ancestors of Indigenous peoples spread from Alaska and the Yukon to…...