Paleontologists in China have identified a new species of pengornithid enantiornithine bird with a pair of elaborate tail feathers.
An illustration showing...
A new genus and species of carcharodontosaurian theropod dinosaur has been identified from a fossillized jawbone found in the Republic of Uzbekistan.
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Paleontologists have uncovered seven well-preserved teeth from the extinct shark genus Petalodus in Shanxi province, China.
Life restoration of Petalodus...
The genomes of multiple East Asian populations bear the signature of a viral epidemic that occurred approximately 900 generations, or 25,000 years (28...
The Nesher Ramla hominins lived between 420,000 and 120,000 years ago in the Middle East and had a distinctive combination of Neanderthal (especially the...
A team of UK researchers has decoded the complete genome of a semi-aquatic mammal called the European water vole (Arvicola amphibius).
The European water...
A new species of the giant rhinoceros genus Paraceratherium has been identified from the fossilized remains found in Gansu Province, northwestern China.
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In new research, an international team of scientists sequenced and analyzed mitochondrial and nuclear genomes of living and extinct caballine horses (Equus...
Modern human brain structures emerged later than the first dispersal of the genus Homo from Africa, and were probably in place by 1.7 to 1.5 million years...
Scientists have extracted and analyzed DNA from three individuals of anatomically modern humans who lived between 45,930 and 42,580 years ago in what is...
The hominin fossil record of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) indicates that at least two super-archaic species, Homo luzonensis and Homo floresiensis, were...
The largest genome-wide association study for eye color to date, involving up to 192,986 European participants from 10 populations, has identified 124...
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of rebbachisaurid dinosaur from a fossil uncovered in Uzbekistan.
Life reconstruction of Dzharatitanis...
In new research, an international team of scientists examined the dental calculus of individuals who lived during the 2nd millennium BCE in the Southern...
The Aral Sea basin in Central Asia and its major rivers, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, were the center of advanced river civilizations, and a principal...
An international team of biologists and taxonomists has discovered a new species in the langur genus Trachypithecus living in the forests of Myanmar.
The...
An international team of archaeologists has found three ancient leather balls in tombs of the prehistoric Yanghai cemetery near the modern city of Turfan...
The 13,000-year-old partial tusk of an adult mammoth found in western Siberia has four images of two-humped camels engraved on it.
The 13,000-year-old...