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250 million-year-old amphibian fossils from Australia reveal global spread of ‘sea-salamanders’
4+ hour, 12+ min ago (703+ words) Lecturer, School of Education, UNSW Sydney Lachlan Hart does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment....
No animal alive today is ‘primitive’ – why are so many still labeled that way?
1+ week, 6+ day ago (588+ words) Kevin Omland does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. We humans have long viewed ourselves…...
Epiaceratherium itjilik: The rhino that lived in the Arctic
3+ week, 1+ day ago (797+ words) Danielle Fraser received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC RGPIN-2018-05305). Natalia Rybczynski, who co-authored the study mentioned in this article, received funding from the W. Garfield Weston Foundation. Mary Dawson, a co-author on the study,…...
Fossil hunters find a new dinosaur track site on South Africa’s coast – the youngest so far
3+ week, 2+ day ago (756+ words) Nelson Mandela University provides support as an endorsing partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Two exciting recent discoveries confirm, however, that there is more to find of dinosaurs that lived in southern Africa a long time after those lava flows. First,…...
DNA from wolf pup’s last meal reveals new facts about woolly rhino’s extinction
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (893+ words) Professor of Zoology and Joint Head of Department of Biology, University of Oxford Timothy Neal Coulson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has…...
A speeding clock could solve Darwin’s mystery of gaps in animal fossil records
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (892+ words) Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, UCL Max Telford does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their…...
Over 16,000 dinosaur tracks discovered at a site in Bolivia
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (624+ words) Sally Christine Reynolds does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Bournemouth University provides funding as…...
Fossil hunters find tracks of animals from about 3 million years ago – a first in South Africa
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (543+ words) Charles Helm does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Nelson Mandela University provides support as…...
Fern stems reveal secrets of evolution – how constraints in development can lead to new forms
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (624+ words) Jacob S. Suissa receives funding from The National Science Foundation. He is affiliated with Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, and Let's Botanize Inc. University of Tennessee provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. There are few forms of the…...
If evolution is real, then why isn’t it happening now? An anthropologist explains that humans actually are still evolving
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (908+ words) Michael A. Little does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Binghamton University, State University of New…...