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3D scans of Tasmanian tiger’s skull reveal it had crocodile-style snapping jaws
1+ week, 5+ day ago (452+ words) A new study has found that Tasmanian tigers had an adaptation is found in no living carnivorous mammal....
How the ‘first bird’ leapt into the sky and soared above the dinosaurs
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (716+ words) Archaeopteryx is an icon of evolution and is often called the first bird. Scientists have long...Our study compared Archaeopteryx with the anatomy of modern birds, and our findings suggest it generated...Archaeopteryx, a fossil uncovered from the Jurassic rocks…...
Discovery of ancient DNA from antelope fossils in South Africa opens a new window on the past
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (829+ words) Over the past 50,000 years, many of the world’s large mammals have gone extinct. Until recent...knew about them came from fossils. Now, analysis of ancient DNA is adding to the picture. Ancient DNA...genetic material often obtained from fossils thousands…...
Early mammals weren’t all loners, as scientists thought – some already lived in pairs alongside the dinosaurs
1+ week, 2+ day ago (740+ words) But they were not shrews. They were the ancestors of all the placental mammals that exist now, including...assumptions were wrong. For 10 years I led a group of volunteers, master’s students, PhD students and researchers...survey to better understand the…...
Fish DNA in Ozark streams reveals region’s complex geologic history
2+ week, 5+ day ago (578+ words) mystery. We were partnering with the Missouri Department of Conservation to monitor for fish presence and abundance...streams across the region and collected a few cups of water from each. In the data itself, we found a clue:...however, that…...
Were Denisovans tall compared to other ancient humans? We should be sceptical
3+ week, 3+ day ago (946+ words) summer and wilting under the heat will be all sorts of body sizes, some tall, some short: a real mix of sizes. Picking just two from the crowd to represent...But that is exactly what we do when we find…...
Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree
3+ week, 4+ day ago (882+ words) groups: Homo, Australopithecus and Paranthropus. Each of these is a “genus”, the rank just above a species....these groupings don’t really reflect the true shape of our family tree. Is it therefore time to come up...As I argue in…...