By cutting into a tiny throat bone, Princeton's Chris Griffin showed that it belonged to an adult of a smaller tyrannosauroid ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...

A research team led by Prof. ZHU Min-member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and affiliated with the CAS Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP)-has identified a new ...

New finding by Chinese paleontologists may rewrite human family tree Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of studies ...

A new computational tool improves the analysis of genetic data, making it easier and faster to study the evolutionary relationships between species. A new computational tool improves the analysis of ...

A new genus and species of plesiopedal mosasauroid, Portunatasaurus krambergeri, from the Cenomanian– Turonian (Late Cretaceous) of Croatia is described. An articulated skeleton, representing an ...

Christmas trees are the centerpiece of a holiday celebration. Every year, between 25 and 30 million Christmas trees are sold in the United States, according to the National Christmas Tree Association.

Your favorite football team was named after Ohio’s state tree, known as the Ohio buckeye tree. Now that fall has arrived, the husks have started falling from trees to reveal a brown one-eyed nut, ...

All species on Earth, both living and extinct, are related. We know this because of a biological tool called the tree of life. This "tree" takes the form of a diagram that maps the relationships ...