In new research, ornithologists from the Field Museum and elsewhere analyzed the whole genomes of 30 diverse kingfisher species to identify the genomic...
Sharks occupy diverse ecological niches and play critical roles in marine ecosystems, often acting as apex predators. They are considered a slow-evolving...
Pierolapithecus catalaunicus is an extinct species of great ape that lived in what is now Europe about 12 million years ago. A remarkably complete, although...
The ecological origin and early evolution of snakes has long been a focus of multiple research fields and remains one of the most enduring and controversial...
Paleontologists from Fukui Prefectural University and the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum have added another species of theropod dinosaur to the prehistoric...
Early humans and apes likely evolved free-moving shoulders and flexible elbows to slow their descent from trees as gravity pulled on their heavier bodies,...
The newly-discovered species, Lumakoala blackae, was comparable in size to the smallest-known members of the koala family (Phascolarctidae), with body-mass...
Paleontologists have identified a new species of plesiosaur ancestor based on two new specimens from the Early Triassic Nanzhang-Yuan’an Fauna of China....
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of tropicbird from a fossilized partial skeleton found in New Zealand. The fossil represents the...
Today, there are more than 8 billion human beings on the planet. Our species dominate Earth’s landscapes, and our activities are driving large numbers...
Paleontologists from Yunnan University, the University of Leicester and the Natural History Museum, London have conducted a microtomographic study of new...
The fossilized remains of the Miocene-period ape species Anadoluvius turkae have been unearthed at the paleotological site of Çorakyerler in central Anatolia,...
Paleontologists have examined a collection of 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France. The rare specimens show that the diversity...
Hupehsuchus nanchangensis, a species of marine reptile that lived between 249 and 247 million years ago in what is now China, had soft structures such...
Plant-eating insects are the most diverse group of multicellular organisms on Earth. The most discussed drivers of their inordinate taxonomic and functional...
The thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) is the largest of modern-day carnivorous marsupials and was hunted to extinction by European settlers in Australia....
Bees are the most significant pollinators of flowering plants. This partnership began approximately 120 million years ago, but the uncertainty of how and...
Precise radiocarbon dating indicates that Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, a species of soil nematode new to science, remained in cryptobiosis for about 46,000...
Living amphibians include frogs and salamanders and the limbless worm-like caecilians (order Gymnophiona). Caecilians have cylindrical bodies with a compact,...
