All Paleobiology


Scientists find Earth’s common ancestor

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A team of researchers in Germany believe that they may have found the common ancestor linked to all…

Cause of Megalodons’ extinction revealed

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 11 Apr 2016

Scientists from Zurich University have proposed the largest shark that ever lived became extinct du…

Complete fossilised nervous system discovered

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 28 Mar 2016

A fossil more than 500m years old with a well preserved central nervous system has been found by sc…

Ancient bees collected pollen in two ways

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 14 Dec 2015

The ancestors of honeybees that lived 50 million years ago collected pollen in two ways.

Life hits 4.1 billion years

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 3 Dec 2015

New evidence suggests that life on Earth began 300 million years earlier than previously thought.

Double stretch for giraffe’s neck

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 5 Nov 2015

Scientists have discovered that the long neck of modern-day giraffes evolved in two stages.

X-rays unravel fossil secrets

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 20 Oct 2015

By using an X-ray imaging technique, palaeontologists have discovered borings made by shell inverte…

New human-like species found

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 11 Sep 2015

Anthropologists have discovered a new human-like species – Homo naledi – in the Rising Cave system …

Britain’s oldest sauropod dinosaur found

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 16 Jun 2015

Palaeontologists have discovered Britain’s oldest sauropod dinosaur fossil on the coast of North Yo…

The oldest unevolved organism

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 20 Apr 2015

Scientists have discovered a deep-sea microorganism that shows no evidence of evolution in the last…

AMS shows modern humans and Neanderthals overlapped

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 11 Dec 2014

Strong evidence that Neanderthals overlapped with modern humans for up to 5,400 years has been reve…

Mary Rose dog male, not female

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 20 Nov 2014

The smallest member of the crew on board the Mary Rose – a dog named Hatch – was a he and not a she…

New finding challenges belief birds evolved from dinosaurs

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 17 Jul 2014

A sparrow-sized fossil from China challenges the commonly held belief that birds evolved from groun…

Fossil find could shed light on Neanderthal – human interbreeding

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 1 Jul 2014

A collection of human fossils feared lost has been found and could shed light on whether Neandertha…

Deep sea root of marine evolution sparks controversy

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 11 Jun 2014

The deep ocean may have played a much bigger role in protecting marine diversity than first thought…

Dino weigh-in sheds light on evolution

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 14 May 2014

Rapidly shrinking body sizes allowed feathered dinosaurs to exploit ecological niches throughout th…

Acid rain plays role in Great Dying

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 29 Nov 2013

Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice could have contributed to the Great Dying, a severe mass ex…

Evolutionary grains of sand

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 6 Sep 2013

Evolutionary ecologists are using “grains of sand” to understand more about evolutionary processes.…

X-rays reveal ‘dinobird’ shook patterned tail feather

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 10 Jul 2013

Using X-rays to complete the first chemical analysis of feathers from a fossil linking dinosaurs an…

Hunter-gatherers had a taste for fish

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 20 May 2013

The first study to directly address the often posed question, “why did humans make pots?” reveals t…