A plant that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Utah is like nothing that lives on planet Earth today. The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of ...
CATALOGUE OF THE MESOZOIC AND CENOZOIC HOLOTYPES IN THE COLLECTION OF PLANT FOSSILS IN THE NATIONAAL NATUURHISTORISCH MUSEUM LEIDEN ELECTRONIC RESOURCE JHA VAN ...
Cicada season is dawning across the eastern US, this time with Brood XIV resurfacing for the first time since 2008. But as noisy and numerous as they are, this year’s swarms represent only a fraction ...
The batch of newly-described fossils includes a species named after Smithsonian botanist Jun Wen Jack Tamisiea Grapes and their relatives originated in dense forests, like this lowland tropical forest ...
Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province / Zhan-Xiang Qiu, Lawrence J. Flynn -- History of Scientific Exploration of Yushe Basin / Zhan-Xiang Qiu, Richard H. Tedford -- Cenozoic Geology of the Yushe Basin / ...
In the 1980s, paleontologists at the University of California Riverside visited Seymour Island on the Antarctic Peninsula. Among the fossils found and taken back to the states were a foot bone and ...
A new study asks: What are the unique chemical and geological processes at Aix-en-Provence that preserve spiders from the Oligocene Period so exquisitely? A geologic formation near Aix-en-Provence, ...
“Our fossil discovery, with its estimate of a 5-to-6-meter wingspan – nearly 20 feet – shows that birds evolved to a truly gigantic size relatively quickly after the extinction of the dinosaurs and ...
Tardigrades, near-microscopic animals that live in water and sort of look like swimming nightmare bears, are stellar at tolerating extreme environments. However, they are not stellar at fossilizing ...
This study is led by the Paleoecology Research Group (PRG) of the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The PRG is the main force of the paleontological ...
The identification of part of the fossilized remains of a so-called "terror bird" species in South America has given researchers new insight into the apex predators ...