Scientists say grooves on a rock face overlooking the Adriatic Sea may have been made by sea turtles fleeing an earthquake.
Dinosaur footprints are not perfect snapshots of the feet that made them. AI techniques from photon science can help identify ...
After reviewing recent genetic, morphological, and biogeographic studies on giraffes, scientists have now split the single ...
New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...
A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...
The unexpected observation of a cow using a broom to scratch herself isn't necessarily surprising, but it expands our ...
At first glance, this mammal looks like a horse gone terribly wrong. But, in reality, Chalicotherium is far from a botched ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
Greenland sharks may have a DNA repair mechanism that maintains their vision for centuries, seemingly preventing retinal ...
A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...
Experts from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, including President Stuart Sumida, discuss the significance of paleontology, Earth history, and science in this informative opinion piece ...
The signaling mechanisms underlying the transition from stem cells to olfactory neurons has been described. Cellular differentiation of stem cells into specialized cells requires many steps, including ...