3+ hour, 49+ min ago  (342+ words) In this unforgiving environment, the synapsids evolved'a diverse group of animals ranging from bulky herbivores to the most fearsome predators of their time. Synapsids possessed a critical advantage: they could reproduce away from water, either through internal fertilization or by…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (196+ words) Argentine scientists have discovered in the Andes mountains the nearly complete skeleton of a new dinosaur species that lived about 230 million years ago, making it one of the oldest dinosaurs in the world, the Conicet institute announced on Wednesday. The…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (198+ words) Jane Goodall, one of the most active primatologists who demonstrated how similar chimpanzees" behavior is to that of humans, died today at the age of 91. The Jane Goodall Institute stated that the British scientist passed away of natural causes while…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (171+ words) Paleontologists presented yesterday, Wednesday, in Lima the fossil of a still little-studied, 12-million-year-old prehistoric dolphin found in July in southern Peru. The three-and-a-half-metre-long fossil skeleton of this Lomacetus was found almost intact in the desert of Ocucahe, about 350 kilometres south…...