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First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

A new fossil discovery suggests that reptiles lived together 20 million years earlier than previously thought.

Although tested in large animals such as minipigs and dogs, 3,4 injection of monocrotaline (MCT) in rat is the more classical and widely used in vivo PAH model for over half a century. Primarily ...

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field and the amount of oxygen in its atmosphere seem to be correlated—and scientists want ...

New findings may have solved the debate around why scientists have never found the missing link between dinosaurs and ...

Ever since the first fragments of pterosaur bone surfaced nearly 250 years ago , palaeontologists have puzzled over one ...

Inside that coprolite (a fossilized piece of dung) paleontologists have discovered the oldest physical evidence of ...