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The Abrupt Origin of Macroscelidea | Evolution News

Elephant shrews are sometimes considered to be living fossils, and their origin is believed to go back 57.5 million years in the Paleocene.

Prehistoric motion capture: arched footprints record the motions of fossil hominin feet | Nature Portfolio Ecology & Evolution Community

Satellites measure power plant emissions for the 1st time | Space

Emissions from a fossil fuel-based power plant have been measured from space for the first time.

Rare, 'rule-breaking' quasicrystal found in chunk of 'fossilized' lightning | Space

A type of crystal that breaks the rules of ordinary crystallography has been found in a tube of melted sand from Nebraska.

UV radiation pulse played a role in a mass extinction event, fossilized pollen reveals | Space

250 million-year-old pollen suggests radiation played a role in mass extinction event.

Fossil study brings us one step closer to revealing how 'flying dinosaurs' took flight

Prehistoric reptiles like pterodactyls took flight long before bats and birds, but we don’t know how it happened.

Fossil study brings us one step closer to revealing how 'flying dinosaurs' took flight

If you think of flying dinosaurs, you probably picture an animal with long, leathery wings, sharp claws and a big beak. The animal you are imagining is not a dinosaur, it's from a group of flying reptiles ...

Newfound galaxies are 'pristine fossils of the early universe' | Space

Astronomers have discovered three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies that could offer clues to the conditions in the early universe and to the nature of dark matter.

Fossil teeth reveal how brains developed in utero over millions of years of human evolution

Fossilized bones help tell the story of what human beings and our predecessors were doing hundreds of thousands of years ago. But how can you learn about important parts of our ancestors' life cycle—like ...

New geosciences study shows Triassic fossils that reveal origins of living amphibians -- ScienceDaily

A team of paleontologists have discovered the first 'unmistakable' Triassic-era caecilian fossil -- the oldest-known caecilian fossils -- thus extending the record of this small, burrowing mammal by roughly 35 million years. The find also fills a gap of at least 87 million years in the known historical fossil record of the amphibian-like creature.