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Collagen Switch Turns Fish Fins Into Limb-Like Structures
2+ hour, 43+ min ago (83+ words) When the first fish lineage crawled onto land some 375 million years ago, its fins had to be remodeled into limbs capable of bearing weight. Evolutionary biologists have long focused on the genes that pattern the skeleton—Hox clusters, Sonic hedgehog,…...
Bizarre squid relative found in Wyoming is unlike anything seen before
15+ hour ago (840+ words) A bizarre belemnite fossil from Wyoming has been identified as a new species, revealing the thickest known member of this ancient squid relative group. There’s a fossil in a Wyoming museum drawer that spent two decades being, essentially, a mystery…...
Teeth Reveal Four Adaptive Zones Shaping Carnivore Evolution
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (762+ words) For more than a century, paleontologists and evolutionary biologists have marveled at the way terrestrial mammalian carnivores keep reinventing the same body plans....
Geologists Searching for Copper in China Drilled 1,500 Feet Underground and Found a 115-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Instead
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (452+ words) A routine mining survey in China turned into something no one on the team was prepared for: a dinosaur fossil that had been hiding underground for 115 million years. What they found next left even the experts divided. A copper mineral…...
Ichthyosaurs Had Surprisingly Dense Ribs, New Study Finds | Sci.News
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (267+ words) New research from the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo suggests ichthyosaurs’ rib cages may have done a job modern whale ribs don’t: acting as ballast to help them dive....
Imagine not having wings | Paleontology
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Yeouch | Paleontology
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (50+ words) Zach Sweat • about 2 hours ago K.J. Genualdo • about an hour ago Zach Sweat • 9 minutes ago Zach Sweat • 13 days ago Zach Sweat • 16 days ago Phillip Hamilton • 8 months ago Uploaded by KimmyDude Sep 10, 2026 at 01:43PM EDT Resolution: (1144px x 1200px) File size: 104 KB...
Heel-Toe Mobility Separated Humans From Lesser Primates
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (319+ words) We take thousands of steps each day and we never think about the evolutionary and cultural advantage it represents. Humans naturally land with a heel-strike and the metabolic energy savings were as much as 41 percent, which made traveling farther possible,…...
Stunned scientist accidentally discovers massive ancient tooth - and it belongs to beast from 2.5 million years ago
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (19+ words) The Sun...
‘Immaculate condition:’ Rare mastodon fossil found in San Mateo County creek
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (513+ words) Brigid Lynch was walking through a redwood forest in the San Mateo County hills when she noticed something unusual, half-submerged in the flowing water of a creek: a big smooth object that didn’t look like any of the other rocks....