Fossil lizard gets its name from grandma
A new fossil lizard, Helioscopus dickersonae, was an ancestor of modern geckos. Its name that honors the lead researcher’s grandmother and great aunt.
Fossil lizard gets its name from grandma
A new fossil lizard, Helioscopus dickersonae, was an ancestor of modern geckos. Its name that honors the lead researcher’s grandmother and great aunt.
Ancient bird left tracks near South Pole during Cretaceous
“Our discovery shows that there were many birds, and a variety of them, near the South Pole about 125 million years ago.”
How a favorite dinosaur food survived mass extinction
A few groups of palm-like plants that were a favored food of grazing dinosaurs still exist today. Now researchers have discovered how.
450M-year-old organism comes back to life in robot form
A “Softbotics” replica of pleurocystitids, a marine organism that existed 450 million years ago, could offer new insight into the evolution of locomotion.
Team solves puzzle of when bees first evolved
Bees first evolved more than 120 million years ago and diversified faster and spread wider than previously thought.
Study rewrites 70-year-old story of life on Earth’s rise
Oxygen didn’t cause an explosion of ocean fauna hundreds of millions of years ago. In fact, new research suggests the opposite may be true.
Rocks hint at when the first animals appeared on Earth
Pinpointing when animals first appeared on Earth is like finding a needle in a very old, planet-sized haystack. A new study narrows the search.
This dinosaur may have been the last of its kind
A newly discovered dinosaur, Iani smithi, named for the Roman god Janus, lived when Earth’s warming climate forced huge changes in global dino populations.
Elephant relative graveyard is a ‘once-in-a-lifetime find’
Bones from an extinct relative of elephants offers a panoramic view of the state’s prehistoric life, researchers say.