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Modern cities are evolution engines. Urban snails in the Netherlands and lizards in Los Angeles have developed lighter shells and larger scales to cope with the heat island effect, where temperatures can be several degrees ...
The calcitic layers of the eggshells of archosaurs (including crocodilians and birds) and turtles are composed of distinctive crystalline structures known as eggshell units. Those growing from the shell membrane are called ...
Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young.
New techniques used to analyze soft tissue in dinosaur fossils may hold the key to new cancer discoveries, according to a study published in the journal Biology.
A small team of paleontologists with members from Austria, Germany and Switzerland has found evidence suggesting that a herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Triassic may have used its large tail as a means to ward off predators. ...
Paleontologists from the Fundaci贸n Conjunto Paleontol贸gico de Teruel-Din贸polis have published new research in the journal Vertebrate Zoology. The article describes a partial stegosaurian skull discovered in the municipality ...
Texas is home to a large and diverse range of animal species, however some of them are considered rare or infrequently encountered by the public.
Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, monotone landscape. Consisting of shale, sandstone and rocks from an old coal mine, the waste pile鈥攍ocated ...
Researchers have found evidence of a previously unrecognized soft tissue structure in the cheek region of many dinosaur species, which they've called the "exoparia." The finding deepens our understanding of dinosaur anatomy ...
A group of fossils of elasmosaurs鈥攕ome of the most famous in North America鈥攈ave just been formally identified as belonging to a "very odd" new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously known.
