Fossil
In the summer of 2009, Kevin Terris, a then-newly graduated high school senior, made an amazing discovery.
Scientists in China have discovered a nearly complete skeleton of the oldest ancestor of the long-lived mammal lineage. The fossil belongs to a 160 million-year-old creature known as the "Jurassic rat," one of evolution's most successful mammals.
A fossil of a new species of bird is the oldest ever found.
A recently discovered fossil is giving scientists some insight into the origins of hummingbirds and swifts. The tiny fossil was discovered in Wyoming, and may be an early ancestor of the tiny, modern day birds.
Though extinct members of lung fish are more analogous to tetrapods than are coelacanth, based off of yesterday’s genome analysis, the latter fish is a key informant regarding the evolution of marine-animals to land breeding animals. Obviously, anatomical analysis, such as the similarities in joints an bones that can be detected in both lobed fins and tetrapod limbs, can only reveal so much information. For this reason, the decoding of African coelacanth’s genome is a feat.
A Florida man pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he smuggled a $1 million dinosaur fossil into the U.S.
When scientists at Vanderbilt University took a closer look at saber tooth tigers' fossils, they expected the predator's teeth to be filed down and worn, an indicator of the supposed famine that killed off the species.
