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Published Australian woman found with parasitic roundworm in her brain caught from carpet python



The world's first case of a new parasitic infection in humans has been discovered by researchers who...
Published Whale-like filter-feeding discovered in prehistoric marine reptile



A remarkable new fossil from China reveals for the first time that a group of reptiles were already...
Published Trilobites rise from the ashes to reveal ancient map



Ten newly discovered species of trilobites, hidden for 490 million years in a little-studied part of ...
Published World's largest hummingbird is actually two species



The Giant Hummingbird of western South America is not one species but two, according to an internati...
Published Tiny ant species disrupts lion's hunting behavior



Data gathered through years of observation reveal an innocuous-seeming ant is disrupting an ecosyste ...
Published These giant, prehistoric salmon had tusk-like teeth



Oncorhynchus rastrosus, a giant species of salmon that lived in the North American Pacific Northwest...
Published Student discovers 200-million-year-old flying reptile



Gliding winged-reptiles were amongst the ancient crocodile residents of the Mendip Hills in Somerset...
Published Archaeologists discover world's oldest wooden structure



Half a million years ago, earlier than was previously thought possible, humans were building structu ...
Published An unlikely hero in evolution: Worms



One of Earth's most consequential bursts of biodiversity -- a 30-million-year period of explosive ev ...
Published Unknown animals were leaving bird-like footprints in Late Triassic Southern Africa



Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according to a new ...
Published Archaeologists discover oldest known bead in the Americas



The bead found at the La Prele Mammoth site in Wyoming's Converse County is about 12,940 years old a ...
Published The world's oldest wine discovered



A white wine over 2,000 years old, of Andalusian origin, is the oldest wine ever discovered. ...
Published Millions of insects migrate through 30-meter Pyrenees pass



Over 17 million insects migrate each year through a single mountain pass on the border between Franc ...
Published Earth's earliest forest revealed in Somerset fossils



The oldest fossilized forest known on Earth -- dating from 390 million years ago -- has been found i ...
Published Paleontology: New fossil fish genus discovered



Paleontologists have identified a new genus of fossil goby, revealing evolutionary secrets of a line...
Published Ancient large kangaroo moved mainly on four legs, according to new research



A type of extinct kangaroo that lived during the Pleistocene around two and a half million to ten th...
Published Why do plants wiggle? New study provides answers



Decades after his voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin became fascinated by why plants move as t...
Published What crocodile DNA reveals about the Ice Age - What Crocodile DNA Reveals About the Ice Age


What drives crocodile evolution? Is climate a major factor or changes in sea levels? Determined to f...
Published A jumping conclusion: Fossil insect ID'd as new genus, species of prodigious leaper, the froghopper - A Jumping Conclusion: Fossil Insect ID'd as New Genus, Species of Prodigious Leaper, the Froghopper



A fossil arthropod entombed in 100-million-year-old Burmese amber has been identified as a new genus ...
Published Fossil of mosasaur with bizarre 'screwdriver teeth' found in Morocco - Fossil of Mosasaur with Bizarre 'Screwdriver Teeth' Found in Morocco



Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, a sea-dwelling lizard from the age of the dino...