Fossil animal feces reveal a secret ancient ecosystem
New research results on 30 million-year-old fossil animal feces of a giant mammal in South America reveal evidence that complex ecological interactions.
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New research results on 30 million-year-old fossil animal feces of a giant mammal in South America reveal evidence that complex ecological interactions.
The most complete skeleton of a type of dinosaur, the
Researchers have discovered that seabass grouper originating from non-jawed fish that appeared 500 million years ago suddenly re-structure their genome.
The blocks from the space that hit glaciers in eastern Canada about 12,900 years ago may have completely destroyed the giant mammoth mammoth.
Inca construction, war art and farming techniques make the whole world admire for thousands of years. But they will not have such achievements if the climate does not be…
The common concept is that the first animals evolved from the sea.
51 bodies of naked men were beheaded and placed side by side when heads were neatly arranged next to them - just found in a 1,000-year-old hole in southern England.
Emmanuel Gheerbrant, a paleontologist at the Paris Museum, has discovered one of the oldest modern ungulates that are related to elephants.
At the end of the Paleozoic period (260 million years ago), before the period of dinosaurs ruling Earth, the ancient predecessor of tree mammals to eat leaves and avoid…
Archaeologists are assembling fossil skeletons of a strange giant animal that once lived in the English Channel 200 million years ago.
A previously unknown volcanic eruption has led to a global extinction disaster that occurred 260 million years ago. But recently it has been forced by Leeds University s…
Famous images of the largest known dinosaurs, from film to skeletons in the museum, mostly have the wrong posture, according to a new study.
The third species of the Palaeopropithecus extinct group of lemurs has just been discovered by the Franco-Madagascan team in northwest Madagascar.
Scientists from the University of California, Davis (USA) and Max Planck Evolutionary Anthropology Institute in Leipzig (Germany) announced the reconstruction of the vir…
Archaeologists have discovered 33 mummies of the Incas in northern Peru, believed to have been killed to sacrifice gods about 600 years ago.