Until about 60,000 years ago, diminutive hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (affectionately nicknamed Hobbits for obvious ...
A 150-million-year-old bird fossil, Zhengheornis, reveals the first step in the evolution of the short tails seen in modern ...
Scientists have uncovered what may be the earliest evidence of "right-handedness" in the animal kingdom, dating back more ...
New research finds that the "silent" mutant male crickets of Hawaii, first observed more than 20 years ago, have now become ...
The transition from a lumbering, heavy dinosaur body to the flight-adapted bird body plan is one of many fascinating episodes ...
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Scientists finally found a 150-million-year fossil that captures the exact moment when birds lost their dinosaur tails
A newly identified bird from the Late Jurassic is helping fill one of the biggest gaps in bird evolution. Named Zhengheornis buyu, the tiny species had a shortened tail without the fused tailbone seen ...
Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two pieces of Gravity Anguirus fan art and memes. The teaser for the next big Godzilla movie, Godzilla Minus Zero, is here, and ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures ...
Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head. By Carl Zimmer Look at ...
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from the Jurassic Park movies, it’s that running a dinosaur theme park isn’t easy. It’s a constant balancing act of keeping your employees satisfied, making your park ...
One hundred years ago a young teacher, John T. Scopes, went on trial in Dayton, Tenn., for violating a recently enacted state law that forbade the state’s educators “to teach any theory that denies ...
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