paleontology
New research shares how a "stop-start" pattern of evolution, governed by environmental change, could explain why crocodiles look so similar to ones from the past
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The bizarre features of this mammal have scientists perplexed as to how it could have evolved; "it bends and even breaks a lot of rules"
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The idea that mass extinctions allow many new types of species to evolve is a central concept in evolution, but a new study using AI to examine the fossil record finds this is rarely true
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In recently published findings, scientists show how one of the largest mass extinctions in Earth's history unfolded
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International research team gains new insights into the evolution of fossil beetles
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An international team has now detected DNA from ambrosia beetles that were trapped in recent tree resin for less than seven years
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Researchers analyze permafrost samples from four sites in the Yukon, each representing different points in the Pleistocene-Halocene transition
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Findings help dispel the view that Australia's first peoples were 'only hunter gatherers'
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Originally discovered in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta in 1989, the badly malformed end of the fossil was originally thought to represent a healing fracture
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An international team reveals discoveries about an unusual time called the 'Carnian Pluvial Episode'
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