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Paleontology & Fossils Feb 13, 2023

Researchers solve a 150-year-old mystery about aetosaurs

Aetosaurs had a small head and a crocodile-like body. The land dwellers were up to six meters long and widely distributed geographically. They died out about 204 million years ago, at the end of the Triassic.

Evolution Feb 3, 2023

Fossils in a northern Alberta riverbed may reveal new facts about dinosaur evolution

Alberta has been ground zero for dinosaur discoveries in Canada since the 1880s, when several Geological Survey of Canada expeditions collected dinosaur bones from the southern part of the province.

Plants & Animals Feb 3, 2023

A new understanding of reptile coloration

Snakes and mice don't look alike. But much of what we know about skin coloration and patterning in vertebrates generally, including in snakes, is based on lab mice. However, there are limits to what mice can tell us about ...

Plants & Animals Feb 2, 2023

Deserts are brimming with life but remain one of the most poorly understood ecosystems

When most people think of deserts, the word that often comes to mind is sand—and a lot of it. Deserts cover almost a quarter of the earth, yet it's hard to imagine life thriving in such hostile environments, regulated by ...

Plants & Animals Feb 1, 2023

Protected areas fail to safeguard more than 75% of global insect species, finds study

Insects play crucial roles in almost every ecosystem—they pollinate more than 80% of plants and are a major source of food for thousands of vertebrate species—but insect populations are collapsing around the globe, and ...

Evolution Feb 1, 2023

319-million-year-old fish preserves the earliest fossilized brain of a backboned animal

The CT-scanned skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain.

Ecology Jan 31, 2023

The 'brown food web': Dead vegetation found to play essential role in desert ecosystems

A reduction in decaying vegetation can have significant impacts on the desert food chain, UNSW scientists have found.

Evolution Jan 31, 2023

New ancient 'marine crocodile' discovered on UK's Jurassic Coast one of the oldest specimens of its type ever found

A new study has uncovered a new thalattosuchian—an ancient 'sister' of modern-day crocodiles' ancestors.

Evolution Jan 23, 2023

We can still see these 5 traces of ancestor species in all human bodies today

Many of us are returning to work or school after spending time with relatives over the summer period. Sometimes we can be left wondering how on earth we are related to some of these people with whom we seemingly have nothing ...

Plants & Animals Jan 20, 2023

Researchers find that traded species have distinctive life histories with extended reproductive lifecycles

A new study by researchers from Durham University, UK, Queen's University Belfast, UK, University of Extremadura, Spain and Swansea University, UK have revealed that vertebrate species involved in the live wildlife trade ...

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