New research into fossilized feces, vomit, and stomach contents has revealed how dinosaurs gradually rose to dominate Earth, providing insights into a 30-million-year evolutionary transition.… Read More »Fossilized Remains Reveal Secrets of Dinosaur Rise
Paleontologists have announced the discovery of an exceptionally well-preserved fossil of a young marine crocodile that lived 10 to 12 million years ago. The find… Read More »Ancient Crocodile Fossil Found in Peru
Within each cell, DNA holds the instructions for building the proteins essential to life. To carry out this task, cells first create a copy of… Read More »Scientists Uncover the Secrets of Ribosome Recruitment
Coral adaptation to ocean warming and marine heat waves will likely be overwhelmed without rapid reductions of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to an international… Read More »Coral Reefs May Not Adapt Fast Enough to Climate Change
More than a million years ago, on a sun-baked savanna near the shores of what would later become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two distinct species… Read More »Two Human Ancestors Walked Together in Ancient Kenya
Two hundred and thirty million years ago, in what’s now Wyoming, the seasons were dramatic. Torrential rain would pelt the region for months on end,… Read More »Ancient Amphibian Survived Extreme Seasons
The Arctic, often considered one of the planet’s most fragile ecosystems, is undergoing rapid changes due to global warming. The region is warming at an… Read More »Arctic Microbes Under Threat
An exciting discovery has been made by an international team of paleontologists: a new species of worm lizard has been unearthed in Tunisia, representing the… Read More »Giant Fossil Worm Lizard Discovered
The study of how genes are regulated in living organisms has taken a significant step forward with a recent study from the University of Bonn… Read More »Scientists Discover Overlapping Enhancers in Gene Regulation
Marine biologists from Norway, the United States, and Denmark recently achieved a significant milestone by conducting the first hearing test on a live baleen whale.… Read More »First-Ever Hearing Test on Live Baleen Whales Yields Surprising Results