Eocene Fossils of a Beetle, Wasp and Mosquito in Sandstone and 38-55 Million Years in Age.© I. Pilon/Shutterstock.com The story begins in Cueva de Mono, a cave in the southern Dominican Republic that ...
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He stopped at a Kentucky road cut - "450 million years later" - then the ancient ocean came out
This fossil-hunting road trip begins in Kentucky at a famous road cut packed with Ordovician-age fossils. The rocks are so ...
Thousands of years ago in a cave on Hispaniola, an unusual chain of events left behind a rare scientific treasure: bees nesting inside fossilized bones. After giant barn owls repeatedly brought prey ...
Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that dinosaur fossils may still contain traces of their original proteins, overturning a long-standing belief that fossilization destroys all organic ...
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A fossil from Antarctica sat in a drawer for 40 years. It turned out to be the first dinosaur bone ever found on the continent
The biggest scientific breakthroughs can come from the most mundane places. A forgotten fossil that sat in a collection ...
There is an old adage that goes, "you are what you eat," meaning that the food you consume helps build your body and fuel your mind. The same is true now as it ever was. When it comes to early humans, ...
Metabolism quietly governs every living body. It shapes how organisms grow, reproduce, heal, and age. Because metabolism links closely to body size, temperature, and diet, it also sets limits on how ...
The growth plates, known as specimens UAMN3760 and UAMN3724, were discovered near Fairbanks in the early 1950s. University of Alaska Museum of the North In the early 1950s, naturalist Otto Geist was ...
Blood tests are useful tools for doctors and scientific researchers: they can reveal a lot about a body's health. Usually, a blood sample is taken to get a picture of the large molecules that are ...
Scientists have announced the discovery of damaged hemoglobin in the hollow, blood vessel–like structures of dinosaur fossils. The researchers used a novel technique they hope may put an enduring ...
The world’s deepest known whale graveyard has been discovered in the southern Indian Ocean at a depth of 7 kilometres. The remains found there include a new species of extinct beaked whale and other ...
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