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5+ hour, 13+ min ago   (986+ words) One of Hollywood's favorite tricks is putting dinosaurs from completely different periods into the same location. Tyrannosaurus rex might wander onto the same screen as Stegosaurus and Velociraptor, even though T. rex didn’t show up for another 150 million years after Stegosaurus…...

4+ hour, 4+ min ago   (337+ words) inkorr.com Genetic 'highways' laid down by a shared ancestor steer animal evolution, researchers find How animal evolution is shaped Rather than moving along random paths, animal evolution is channeled through a limited set of irreversible genetic "highways" that trace…...

2+ hour, 4+ min ago   (327+ words) A team of paleontologists studying penguin fossils from Seymour Island found that ancient bird bones can preserve chemical evidence of past climate change. Because the fossils are rare, the researchers needed a way to examine them without causing damage. They…...

3+ hour, 3+ min ago   (722+ words) Newswise — Anthropology Professor and Department Chair Britney Kyle, Ph.D., spent her sabbatical sharing her expertise in examining human skeletons with students and faculty from the University of Prishtina in Kosovo, a country in Southeast Europe. During a five-week partnership…...

4+ hour, 14+ min ago   (274+ words) The bond between humans and dogs stretches back thousands of years — long before modern pets ever existed. At Clemson University, genetics expert Kelsey Witt Dillon is studying ancient dog DNA to better understand how wolves slowly became domesticated companions. RELATED…...

7+ hour, 12+ min ago   (262+ words) Something small that leads to something enormous is at the thrilling heart of so many memorable movie plots. That's how the ancient beasts are brought back to life in the 1993 blockbuster, making the amber-bound mosquito fossil a highly important prop…...

18+ min ago   (274+ words) The bond between humans and dogs stretches back thousands of years — long before modern pets ever existed. At Clemson University, genetics expert Kelsey Witt Dillon is studying ancient dog DNA to better understand how wolves slowly became domesticated companions. RELATED…...

9+ hour, 50+ min ago   (304+ words) Doug Soltis, a distinguished professor here at the Florida Museum, collaborated with LabX’s Marketing Manager Nawar Nemeh on a series of fun, short videos about the Tree of Life, how it helps researchers and what we can learn by examining…...

7+ hour, 3+ min ago   (343+ words) Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the study identifies Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa as a distinct genus and species. The fossil also reveals that it lived alongside another early crocodile relative, Hesperosuchus agilis, even though the two animals showed different…...

7+ hour, 9+ min ago   (444+ words) ROSS Dullard says there are fossils out there for other amateur palaeontologists to find, but it is important that people follow the rules. The Jan Juc resident and Anglesea Primary School principal found the skull of an unusual type of…...