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324-million-year-old insect fossil reveals early life on Earth roamed between water and land
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (956+ words) A 324-million-year-old fossil suggests early insects lived between water and land as their bodies gradually...Life on Earth changed greatly when animals began moving from water onto land....Insects eventually became the most species-rich animal group on the planet and…...
Ancient armored fish survived a massive impact before Earth’s largest mass extinction
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1023+ words) lake was drying up in the last stretch of the Permian, just before the largest mass extinction in Earth...
Scientists think they know how the first birds on Earth learned to fly
4+ week, 1+ day ago (986+ words) measurements from zebra finch takeoffs, including body movements and the force of each push against the ground...
This ‘living dinosaur’ survives up to 427 years and rank among the world’s longest-lived vertebrates
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (913+ words) The five populations did not all land in the same place, and the Lake Winnebago and Menominee River fish...
Mammal extinction followed the same rules for 130,000 years – until now
3+ week, 4+ day ago (797+ words) Roughly one in four of the world’s mammal species is threatened with extinction, according to the International...stretching back 130,000 years, covering the period before and after modern humans spread across the globe...
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...2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms), including mammoths, elephant relatives called gomphotheres, and giant ground...
American cheetah was not actually a cheetah, DNA reveals
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (1055+ words) That means this animal lived in very different worlds....
Dodos weren’t stupid, and their skulls finally prove it
2+ week, 20+ hour ago (1073+ words) Analysis of dodo bird skulls has helped scientists understand how they observed and interacted with the world...
Fossil bite marks show mammals didn’t always rule the food chain
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (1262+ words) complete surprise, Wilson said in an interview with Earth.com. “I was studying the La Venta collections to...kind of lemon-like shape in profile,” Wilson told Earth.com. Teeth with a sharp ridge running down each...
Our ancestors may not have needed ape-like feet to climb
5+ day, 23+ 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....