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Evolution

The Welsh countryside near the Coed Cochion Quarry, where the fossils were found. Picture: Anthony Clarke

Key moment in the evolution of life on Earth captured in fossils

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans
An X-ray reconstruction of a 32-million-year-old fossil kelp holdfast colored to show the base (orange), holdfast (yellow) and the bivalve shell to which it attached (blue).

Pacific kelp forests are far older that we thought

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment
predator worms swimming under water

Ancient Predator Fossils Unearthed in Greenland

Categories Life & Non-humans
Recent studies show that many lemurs do not live individually, but in pairs of females and males. (Image: istock.com/Goddard_Photography)

Early primates likely lived in pairs

Categories Life & Non-humans, Social Sciences
Artist illustration of Nanotyrannus attacking a juvenile T. rex.

“Juvenile T. rex” fossils are a distinct species of small tyrannosaur

Categories Life & Non-humans

Why do they look like us?

Categories Bloggers
Prehistoric people are attacking an elephant

People, not the climate, caused the decline of the giant mammals

Categories Life & Non-humans
A Neanderthals having coffee early in the morning

Were Neanderthals morning people ?

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans
The fossil that was originally interpreted to be a plant, but researchers have now discovered is the inside of the shell of a baby turtle.

It turns out, this fossil plant is really a fossil baby turtle

Categories Life & Non-humans
Bat teeth

Fruit, nectar, bugs and blood: How bat teeth and jaws evolved for a diverse dinnertime

Categories Life & Non-humans
Velvet worm

Velvet Worm slime could inspire sustainable synthetic materials

Categories Life & Non-humans, Physics & Mathematics
Chordodes horse hairworms use mantids as definitive hosts. After maturing in the mantids, they manipulate their hosts to enter water bodies where the parasites reproduce.

Stolen genes allow parasitic control of behavior

Categories Brain & Behavior
From left, the Pierolapithecus cranium shortly after discovery, after initial preparation, and after virtual reconstruction.

Extinct ape gets a facelift, 12 million years later

Categories Life & Non-humans
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