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The Image of Neanderthals as a Species Exclusively Adapted to the Cold Is False: This Was What Led Them to Extinction
6+ hour, 26+ min ago (1163+ words) A global study suggests that climate change was not the main cause of Neanderthal extinction and points to competition with Homo sapiens as the determining factor. An international team of researchers has published a study that questions one of the…...
The discovery of footprints from a hominid that lived 1.4 million years ago by a Kenyan lake reveals it could reach 180 centimeters in height
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (521+ words) An international team of researchers has documented a set of fossilized footprints that offer an exceptional snapshot of the behavior of a group of ancient human relatives who inhabited the shores of a lake in northern Kenya. The recently published…...
How Ancient Is Being Right-Handed? First Evidence of “Right-Handedness” Discovered in a 550-Million-Year-Old Fossil
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (588+ words) A study documents that the species Spriggina floundersi showed a systematic preference for curving to the right, placing the origin of lateralized behavior in animals much earlier than previously thought. Scientists from the American Museum of Natural History, Florida State…...
Fossil footprints found in Italy reveal the earliest evidence of when and where dinosaurs rose to dominate the planet
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (560+ words) A study reviews the Lerici site and concludes that the first global radiation of sauropods occurred in the Carnian, earlier than previously thought. About 230 million years ago, during a geological period known as the Carnian (within the Late Triassic), Earth…...
The Largest Whale Necropolis in the World Discovered in the Indian Ocean, with Millions of Fossils and Remains from 5.3 Million Years Ago to the Present
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (656+ words) Whale falls occur when the carcasses of these marine mammals sink to the ocean floor, creating local concentrations of biodiversity in the abyssal depths. Beyond their role in long-term carbon sequestration, these phenomena allow scientists to trace the evolution and…...
The Moment We Saw the Light: Fossil Tracks Reveal When and How the First Animals Began to Perceive the World
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (609+ words) An animal with better senses does something else. It detects something—a microbial mat, a shelter, maybe a conspecific (an individual that belongs to the same species as another)—and changes direction toward it. Its paths curve, cross, form loops....
A fossil found in Canada solves the paleontological enigma of the “Furongian gap,” a 12-million-year period with no fossils
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (585+ words) An international study published in BMC Biology provides new clues to solve one of the most persistent paleontological enigmas of the Paleozoic: the so-called Furongian gap, a time interval roughly between 497 and 485 million years ago during which specialists had recorded…...
The fascinating history of Hațeg, an ancient island in the middle of Europe where all the dinosaurs were dwarfs
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1211+ words) Seventy million years ago, in the middle of the Tethys Sea, there was an island where evolution followed its own rules. There, dinosaurs shrank, pterosaurs became giants, and a Hungarian baron revolutionized paleontology with a theory that today is law....
A 400,000-Year-Old Tooth Found in China Links Homo erectus with Denisovans and Modern Humans
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (436+ words) A team of scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully extracted molecular information from six fossil teeth of Homo erectus from three Chinese sites, using a new micro-destructive sampling…...
The Most Extensive Site of Dinosaur Footprints and Swimming Traces in the World Discovered in Bolivia, with More Than 16,000 Identified Ichnites
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (202+ words) The ground of Carreras Pampa, in Torotoro National Park, is not simply soil and rock. It is a giant palimpsest, a monumental page of natural history where the footsteps of countless dinosaurs were superimposed again and again, creating a movement…...