3+ hour, 23+ min ago  (498+ words) There is a tiny cyclops among your oldest ancestors, and humans share these remarkable ancestral roots with all other vertebrates. This according to new, surprising research on the evolution of the eye. Researchers from Lund University and University of Sussex…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (572+ words) A UT San Antonio-led international research team has identified chitin, the primary organic component of modern crab shells and insect exoskeletons, in trilobite fossils more than 500 million years old, marking the first confirmed detection of the molecule in this extinct…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (597+ words) In 2012, fossils from a rare Homo habilis skeleton were uncovered along the shores of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Scientists who made the find turned to University of New Mexico anthropologist Osbjorn Pearson, a professor and regents lecturer in UNM's…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (591+ words) Babies and very young sauropods " the long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters that in adulthood were the largest animals to have ever walked on land " were a key food sustaining predators in the Late Jurassic, according to a new study led by a…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (400+ words) Today, the red kangaroo is the largest living hopping animal and weighs around 90kg. But during the Ice Age, some kangaroos grew more than twice the size of that - some reaching up to 250kg. Lead researcher Megan Jones, Postgraduate Researcher at the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (429+ words) New research challenges the view that rock wallabies rarely leave their rocky homes, with implications for modern conservation efforts Rock wallabies are widely regarded as shy cliff-dwellers, rarely venturing far from the safety of their rocky shelters. But new fossil…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (423+ words) New lizard form alters the reproductive strategies of its fellow species Profile picture of a male common wall lizard with the "Hulk" appearance. For millions of years, Mediterranean wall lizards have played by the same rules. Across populations, individuals show…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (485+ words) An international research team led by scientists from La Trobe University in Australia and the University of Cambridge is questioning how one of the most complete early human fossils has been classified. Their findings suggest the specimen may not belong…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (472+ words) New study confirms Nanotyrannus holotype was diminutive, distinct species from T. rex New research from a team including the University of Nebraska State Museum's Ashley Poust further moves a decades-long scientific debate toward a conclusion " the Nanotyrannus, a teacup variation of…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (565+ words) A University of Cambridge-led team has analysed giant anaconda fossils from South America to deduce that these tropical snakes reached their maximum size 12.4 million years ago and have remained giants ever since. Many animal species that lived 12.4 to 5.3 million years…...