8+ hour, 13+ min ago   (397+ words) Ptree is a website where you can navigate through the classification of organisms by clicking on them, and learn about various characteristics such as their diet and lifespan. I tried out this interactive Tree of Life, which allows you to…...

9+ hour, 10+ min ago   (959+ words) Meet the tiny mammal that survived the dino-killing asteroid to became our earliest ancestor As the ‘Age of the Dinosaurs’ came to an abrupt end 66 million years ago, another evolutionary story began, the ‘Rise of the Primates’, and it starts…...

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1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (344+ words) When the fossil was first spotted on Seymour Island in 2011, no one knew what it was. The structure was flattened and paper-thin, unlike the rigid shells typically preserved in the fossil record. For years, it resisted classification. Nearly a decade…...

1+ day, 37+ min ago   (912+ words) Estimated read time: 7-8 minutes Archaeologists excavating a cave in southwestern China have unearthed fossilized remains that belonged to an enigmatic population of extinct hominins, revealing new details about their long-lost way of life. The new haul — which includes four teeth,…...

16+ hour ago   (656+ words) Scientists believe the poo might have come from a tyrannosaur who had an ancient species of aquatic bird for its tea When you're looking for the answer to a puzzled from millions of years ago, sometimes the most unexpected of…...

19+ hour, 2+ 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,…...