Researchers have described a whole new family of extinct crocodyliforms based on the fossilized remains of a single teenage ...

Nicknamed Elton and formally named Thikarisuchus xenodentes, the fossil reveals a predator no longer than two feet, with a ...

Cephalopods like octopuses, cuttlefish, and squid display a range of deceptive behaviors, which may rely on sophisticated ...

The crab shape has evolved independently in nature multiple times, suggesting that extraterrestrial life may commonly take a similar form due to convergent evolution.

Austrian team led by Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Leibniz-HKI has been able to biochemically demonstrate for the ...

Researchers found that magic mushrooms and fiber caps independently evolved different biochemical pathways to create ...

Researchers from Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Leibniz-HKI discovered that Psilocybe and Inocybe mushrooms ...

A German-Austrian team led by Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Leibniz-HKI has been able to biochemically demonstrate ...

This concerns the biosynthesis of a molecule that has a very long history with humans," explains Prof. Dirk Hoffmeister, head of the research group ...

About 95 million years ago, a juvenile crocodyliform nicknamed Elton lived in what is now southwest Montana at the edge of ...

A 95-million-year-old crocodyliform fossil, affectionately nicknamed Elton, was discovered in Montana by student Harrison ...

For a long time, gene loss was seen as a kind of biological decay, but a new study shows it can be just the opposite: a smart ...