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Researcher Adds to Timeline of Human Evolution by Studying an Island Fox

Dec. 9, 2020 — Nearly two decades ago, a small-bodied 'human-like' fossil, Homo floresiensis, was discovered on an island in Indonesia. Some scientists have credited the find, now nicknamed 'Hobbit,' as ...

Mass Extinctions of Land-Dwelling Animals Occur in 27-Million-Year Cycle

Dec. 11, 2020 — Mass extinctions of land-dwelling animals--including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds -- follow a cycle of about 27 million years, coinciding with previously reported mass extinctions of ...

What Caused the Ice Ages? Tiny Ocean Fossils Offer Key Evidence

Dec. 10, 2020 — Since the discovery that atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations were lower during past ice ages, the cause has been a mystery. Now, fossils of ocean algae reveal that a weakening in ...

New 'Sea Dragon' Discovered Off UK Coastline

Dec. 9, 2020 — An amateur fossil hunter has unearthed a new type of prehistoric 'sea dragon' on the beach of the UK's Dorset ...

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Unexpected Insights Into Early Dinosaur's Brain, Eating Habits and Agility

Dec. 14, 2020 — A pioneering reconstruction of the brain belonging to one of the earliest dinosaurs to roam the Earth has shed new light on its possible diet and ability to move ...

First-Known Fossil Iguana Burrow Found in the Bahamas

Dec. 9, 2020 — The fossilized burrow dates back to the Late Pleistocene Epoch, about 115,000 years ago, and is located on the island of San Salvador -- best known as the likely spot where Christopher Columbus made ...

Archaeopteryx Fossil Provides Insights Into the Origins of Flight

Dec. 9, 2020 — Molting is thought to be unorganized in the first feathered dinosaurs because they had yet to evolve flight, so determining how molting evolved can lead to better understanding of flight origins. ...

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Paleontologists Find Pterosaur Precursors That Fill a Gap in Early Evolutionary History

Dec. 9, 2020 — With the help of newly discovered skulls and skeletons that were unearthed in North America, Brazil, Argentina, and ...

Why Do Elephants and Tigers Still Roam in India? Study Offers Clues

Dec. 8, 2020 — A study documenting four extinctions of large mammals on the Indian Subcontinent sheds light on why elephants, tigers, and rhinos still roam ...

New Geological Findings from Eastern Fennoscandia Add New Dimensions to the History of European Ice

Dec. 7, 2020 — In Finland, the majority of the glacial and warm interval records have been interpreted to represent only the last, Weichselian, glacial cycle that ...

Flightless Bird Species at Risk of Extinction

Dec. 3, 2020 — Bird species that have lost the ability to fly through evolution have become extinct more often than birds that have retained their ability to fly, according to new ...

Continents Prone to Destruction in Their Infancy, Study Finds

Dec. 2, 2020 — Geologists have shed new light on the early history of the Earth through their discovery that continents were weak and prone to destruction in their ...

New Theory on 'Venus' Figurines

Dec. 1, 2020 — One of world's earliest examples of art, the enigmatic `Venus' figurines carved some 30,000 years ago, have intrigued and puzzled scientists for nearly two centuries. Now a researcher believes he's ...

Only Dinosaurs Found in Ireland Described for the First Time

Nov. 24, 2020 — The only dinosaur bones ever found on the island of Ireland have been formally confirmed for the first time by a team of experts. The two fossils are from two different dinosaurs, a four-legged ...