Modern oceans, for comparison, max out at trophic level five or six, represented by apex predators like orcas, sperm whales, ...

The research team conducted the largest study of fossil human skulls to date, covering a time span of seven million years. This extensive analysis led to new insights that challenge previous ...

Opalized ammonite fossils are some of the most unique and spectacular paleontological specimens. They were formed through a geological process known as opalization, wherein organic material from ...

The scientific community believe a small species of human known as homo floresiensis ... floresiensis were emboldened at the finding of fossils roughly 20 years ago. “When the reports started ...

Granger says the caves in South Africa where Mrs. Ples was discovered hold more Australopithecus fossils than anywhere in the world. The site, known as Sterkfontein Caves, is now part of the ...

A study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of an evolutionary arms race. These 517-million-year-old predator-prey ...

Over the decades, fossils of aquatic critters like the whorled shells of squirmy ammonites and cephalopods have been discovered in the county that was once a warm, shallow sea. About 40 footprint ...

Australian and US scientists discovered a new species of prehistoric snapping turtle after re-examining an unidentified fossil on display in a Northern Territory museum. The new species ...

From the end of the Roman occupation through the Anglo-Saxon and Viking invasions - a new way of testing DNA in ancient bones could force a rethink of key moments in Britain's early history, say ...

Here’s the story of this living fossil that refuses to age—or die ... this tree has lived through some of the most defining events in human history: the rise and fall of the Tang Dynasty ...

But the Smithsonian made many notable 2024 acquisitions throughout its 21 museums, from a glistening 71-million-year-old ammonite fossil to a towering rocket that blasted its billionaire owner ...