5+ hour, 49+ min ago   (1127+ words) New research reveals baby sauropods fed Jurassic predators and shaped one of Earth's most famous dinosaur ecosystems. (CREDIT: AI-generated image / The Brighter Side of News) About 150 million years ago, the land that is now the western United States was alive…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (657+ words) Dinosaur footprints outnumber bones, but they are hard to interpret. A new AI study reveals how machine learning can help identify who made them. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Skeletons provide an incredible amount of detail regarding a dinosaur's structure and how that…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (780+ words) In the foreground, two Bakiribu waridza feed in a lake environment while, in the background, Irritator pursues other specimens. (CREDIT: Julio Lacerda) "This was very unexpected, because fossils from the Araripe region have been studied for decades and almost 30 types…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (947+ words) Handaxe from the Boxgrove paleosol horizon (locality Q2/GTP 17). (CREDIT: Science Advances) This discovery supports the notion that early hominins utilized elephant bones for more than just food. They were used as tools in the process of creating stone tools through…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1110+ words) Homo habilis " forensic facial reconstruction/approximation. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Dust and sun define field seasons in East Turkana. So do patience and sharp eyes. In northern Kenya, a set of bones pulled from the ground has now changed what…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1149+ words) After an ancient extinction killed about 85% of marine species, survivors in isolated refuges helped jawed vertebrates diversify and later dominate. (CREDIT: Kaori Serakaki (OIST)) About 445 million years ago, Earth's oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (812+ words) A 67-million-year-old fish fossil preserved rare middle ear bones that amplify sound. New analyses suggest otophysan fish evolved from marine ancestors and entered freshwater at least twice, reshaping the timeline for the world's most diverse freshwater fish group. (CREDIT: Shutterstock)…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (715+ words) A seven-million-year-old skull found in Chad sits at the center of a long argument about human origins. The species, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, was announced in the early 2000s as a possible early hominin. That label matters because it would place upright walking…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (902+ words) Tiny air bubbles trapped in ancient salt crystals are offering the clearest view yet of Earth's atmosphere a billion years ago. (CREDIT: NASA) Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have now opened that archive. The team was led by graduate student…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (933+ words) 3D models of the jaw and associated middle ear bones of the Triassic mammal ancestor "Thrinaxodon" show that the switch to mammal-like hearing with an eardrum evolved much earlier than previously thought. (CREDIT: Alex Boersma/PNAS) You are looking at one…...