4+ hour, 42+ min ago   (284+ words) Chinese Academy of Sciences analyzes Zhengheornis buhui tail bones to trace early bird evolution 150 million years ago Most terrestrial dinosaurs are known to have had tails so long that they accounted for more than half of their body length. Theropod…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (836+ words) A Tyrannosaurus fossil that has gone to auction with a minimum price of 44.8 billion won has recently become a hot topic, bringing renewed attention to the controversy over the commercialization of dinosaur fossils. As concerns grow that scientifically important fossils…...

1+ mon, 22+ hour ago   (486+ words) Gus T. rex expected to fetch at least $30 million as museums lose key research specimens to wealthy collectors A Tyrannosaurus rex (T. rex) fossil that could become the most expensive dinosaur ever sold is going up for auction. As prices for rare…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (315+ words) Chinese Academy of Sciences and BGI map 3D molecular architecture of jawless vertebrate brain This week’s cover of the international journal 'Science' features the lamprey, a jawless primitive vertebrate. The lamprey has changed little in form for about 360 million years, earning…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (921+ words) ● El Greco’s fallacy and the umwelt of time Past midnight, late at night, I often sit alone in the lab and quietly stare at the thin glass tubes of the Drosophila activity monitor. Inside each tube is a tiny fruit…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (318+ words) Is this a shark preying on another fish? The two fish on this week's cover of Nature are ancient ancestors of bony fish. Bony fish (osteichthyans), which have skeletons made of hard bone, are the root of a lineage that…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (453+ words) Evolution is the process by which the genetic traits of a biological population change over many generations. Evolution typically occurs in four stages: variation, overproduction, struggle for existence, and natural selection. First, within a group of organisms of the same…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (317+ words) On the 27th (local time), the international scientific journal 'Nature' featured the ongoing debate among scientists over which animal group was the first. Between 600 and 800 million years ago, multicellular organisms composed of many interacting cells appeared. Within the following tens of…...

6+ mon, 4+ week ago   (245+ words) This content was translated by an AI-powered translation tool. It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. Traces of an extinct woolly rhino have been discovered in the stomach of a 14,400-year-old Ice Age wolf found in…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago   (265+ words) This content was translated by an AI-powered translation tool. It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. In 2009, a 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot bone was discovered in the Burtele region of Ethiopia. The identity of this 'mystery foot,…...