Despite new clues, this ancient fish has stumped scientists for centuries
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by Sean Cummings
5d ago
The 50-million-year-old Pegasus volans isn't closely related to seamoths or oarfish, like some researchers have suggested. But what is it ..read more
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This spiky fossil shows what early mollusks looked like
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by Erin Garcia de Jesús
3w ago
The fossil, plus 17 others from more than 500 million years ago, reveal that early mollusks were slug-like creatures with prickly armor ..read more
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The asteroid that may have killed the dinosaurs came from beyond Jupiter
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by Carolyn Gramling
3w ago
The Chicxulub crater, left behind by the impact, contains elemental traces that suggest the origins of the notorious projectile ..read more
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Komodo dragon teeth get their strength from an iron coat
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by Erin Garcia de Jesús
1M ago
Studying the reptile’s ironclad teeth in more detail could help solve a dinosaur dental mystery ..read more
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Freeze-drying turned a woolly mammoth’s DNA into 3-D ‘chromoglass’
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by Tina Hesman Saey
2M ago
A new technique for probing the 3-D structure of ancient DNA may help scientists learn how extinct animals functioned, not just what they looked like ..read more
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Stunning trilobite fossils include soft tissues never seen before
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by Lucas Van Wyk Joel
2M ago
Well-preserved fossils from Morocco help paleontologists understand the weird way trilobites ate and perhaps why these iconic animals went extinct ..read more
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The last woolly mammoths offer new clues to why the species went extinct
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by Claire Yuan
2M ago
The last population of woolly mammoths did not go extinct 4,000 years ago from inbreeding, a new analysis shows ..read more
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Early ants may have had complex social lives, fossil data suggests
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by Jake Buehler
3M ago
The earliest ants may have been primed for a highly social life — 100 million years ago, the insects had antennae tuned to key communication functions ..read more
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‘Echidnapus’ hints at a lost age of egg-laying mammals
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by Carolyn Gramling
3M ago
The fossil discoveries double the number of known monotreme species during the Cretaceous Period ..read more
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How smart was T. rex?
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by Freda Kreier
4M ago
A debate over how to count neurons in dinosaurs is raising questions about how to understand extinct animals’ behavior ..read more
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