This is the first time that a fossil thrips has been recorded anywhere in Africa, or the entire southern hemisphere.

While the statement doesn’t name a specific mammoth species, the tusk might have belonged to a Columbian mammoth, a distant cousin of the more familiar woolly mammoth. The shaggy elephantine animal ...

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The shape and microstructure of the bones, and the fact they were found within the Kilmaluag Formation — a geological ...

The discovery of the fossil, dating back 172 to 164 million years, was published in Nature on Thursday. Paleontologist Stephen L. Brusatte from the University of Edinburgh called it the most important ...

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A more honest way to punish burning of fossil fuel is a carbon tax. “If you want to change people’s behavior,” says Fisher, ...

Researchers worked over two days to create a protective cast around the tusk for transport. After covering the fossil in plaster-soaked burlap strips, Schroeder’s group then constructed a frame around ...

Climate activists have found a new way to force us to pay more for energy. New York and Vermont passed laws that will raise ...

Turns out, the hunter was right. After Juett reported the find to CBBS, a team of anthropology professors and archaeological ...

Million-Year-Old Fossil of a 'Super Ostrich' Almost the Size of a Polar Bear Amazes Researchers Extinct animals provide ...

But our new study suggests there was an ancient equivalent, dating to 22,000 years ago ... by the ends of wooden poles while excavating for fossil footprints. Sometimes these appear as just ...