It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. Restoration illustration of Minisauripus. Its body length is less than 30cm, making it smaller than a chicken. Provided by ...

Predictions of how marine organisms like mollusks, sea urchins and coccolithophores will continue to form their calcium carbonate components as climate change impacts the oceans rely heavily on the ...

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Hiding in plain sight in Japan, researchers identified a new, “extremely rare” butterfly species with a remarkable wingspan of 3.5 inches—the first in its subfamily. Initially discovered in 1988, the ...

Scientists have long been able to measure and analyze the fossil skulls of our ancient ancestors to estimate brain volume and growth. The question of how these ancient brains compare to modern human ...

The 'ghost' fossils are imprints of single-celled plankton called coccolithophores and their discovery is changing our understanding of how plankton in the oceans are affected by climate change. An ...

NORTH ATTLEBORO, Massachusetts (Reuters) - U.S. researchers say they have discovered what appears to be the oldest imprint of a prehistoric insect, made while the dragonfly-like creature was still ...

Richard Knecht was lost in a swamp. His hunt for fossils was not going according to plan. One of Knecht’s students had found an unpublished masters thesis from 1929, which described a nearby area that ...

Dinosaur fossils have been dug up for well over a century, but every so often something turns up inside them […] ...