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Published Bizarre new fossils shed light on ancient plankton



Recently discovered microfossils date back half a billion years. Resembling modern-day algae, they p...
Published Where is a sea star's head? Maybe just about everywhere



A new study that combines genetic and molecular techniques helps solve the riddle of sea star (commo...
Published 450-million-year-old organism finds new life in Softbotics



Researchers have used fossil evidence to engineer a soft robotic replica of pleurocystitids, a marin...
Published How shifting climates may have shaped early elephants' trunks



Researchers have provided new insights into how ancestral elephants developed their dextrous trunks....
Published It turns out, this fossil 'plant' is really a fossil baby turtle



Researchers re-examined a plant fossil found decades ago in Colombia and realized that it wasn't a p...
Published Evolution is not as random as previously thought



A groundbreaking study has found that evolution is not as unpredictable as previously thought, which...
Published Ancient sea monster remains reveal oldest mega-predatory pliosaur



The fossils of a 170-million-year-old ancient marine reptile from the Age of Dinosaurs have been ide...
Published The megalodon was less mega than previously believed



A new study shows the Megalodon, a gigantic shark that went extinct 3.6 million years ago, was more...
Published Butterfly and moth genomes mostly unchanged despite 250 million years of evolution



Comparison of over 200 high-quality butterfly and moth genomes reveals key insights into their biolo...
Published Change in gene code may explain how human ancestors lost tails



A genetic change in our ancient ancestors may partly explain why humans don't have tails like monkey...
Published Surprisingly vibrant color of 12-million-year-old snail shells



Snail shells are often colorful and strikingly patterned. This is due to pigments that are produced...
Published Mystery solved: The oldest fossil reptile from the alps is an historical forgery



Palaeontological analysis shows that a renowned fossil thought to show soft tissue preservation is i...
Published High resolution techniques reveal clues in 3.5 billion-year-old biomass



To learn about the first organisms on our planet, researchers have to analyze the rocks of the early...
Published Across oceans and millennia: decoding the origin and history of the bottle gourd



Researchers have uncovered intriguing details about the origins and spread of the bottle gourd, one...
Published Fungal evolution discovered: Mycena can now invade living hosts



Biologists have long known mushrooms of the genus Mycena, commonly known as bonnet mushrooms, as fun...
Published Toothed whale echolocation organs evolved from jaw muscles



Genetic analysis finds evidence suggesting that acoustic fat bodies in the heads of toothed whales w...
Published Tanks of the Triassic: New crocodile ancestor identified



Dinosaurs get all the glory. But aetosaurs, a heavily armored cousin of modern crocodiles, ruled the...
Published Rare 3D fossils show that some early trees had forms unlike any you've ever seen



In the fossil record, trees typically are preserved with only their trunks. They don't usually inclu...
Published The double-fanged adolescence of saber-toothed cats



How did North America's saber-toothed cats hunt without breaking their unwieldy saber-like canines,...
Published Fossil frogs share their skincare secrets



Palaeontologists have solved a hundred-year-old mystery of how some fossil frogs preserve their fles...