2+ hour, 1+ min ago  (337+ words) Open Access Government Researchers from University College London and several Thai institutions have identified Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, the largest dinosaur ever discovered in Southeast Asia. This 27-tonne long-necked sauropod lived in Thailand approximately 100 to 120 million years ago Nagatitan belonged to the…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (899+ words) Open Access Government How are fossils formed Professor Loren E. Babcock examines the key processes of fossilization in paleontology, highlighting the critical role of rapid burial in preserving organic remains from quick decomposition How do fossils form? This is the most…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (260+ words) A landmark pair of cover stories published in Nature on March 4, 2026, has settled long-standing questions about the origins of bony fishes'the ancestors of 98% of all living vertebrates, including humans. A research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has unearthed…...

4+ mon, 22+ hour ago  (846+ words) Open Access Government Jinxing Li and Christopher H. Contag delve into the emerging field of magnetobiology, which utilizes magnetic fields to manipulate and control living systems, while reflecting on its potential to surpass the limitations of other modalities Magnetobiology: drawing biologists…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (214+ words) Although these specimens illustrate considerable anatomical details, and perhaps partly because of that, this fish poses a number of perplexing questions bearing on the evolution and paleoecology of Paleozoic cartilaginous fishes. It was long thought that concretions took a long…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (432+ words) An organ's function is fundamentally tied to the way its tissue is built. Every feature of an organ, including shape, durability, or its capacity for repair, is determined by collectives of cells and their actions in space and time. Exploring…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (246+ words) The findings, published in the Nature portfolio journal Communications Biology, reveal that modern-type sharks were competitive apex predators alongside the giant marine reptiles that dominated the dinosaur-era oceans. The most significant find, however, is a collection of five partly mineralised…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (359+ words) Vertebrate palaeontology, the study of fossilized "backboned" animals, is arguably one of the most popular of sciences globally, one of the most popular and powerful of the "gateway" sciences to the public today. Unfortunately, the multipronged attacks on science, evolution,…...