New skull of tube-crested dinosaur reveals evolution of bizarre crest
IMAGE: New skull of Parasaurolophus as originally exposed in the badlands of New Mexico. Credit: Copyright...
From fins to limbs | EurekAlert! Science News
When tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) began to move from water to land roughly 390 million years...
Like plants do: non-classical photosynthesis by earth’s inorganic semiconducting minerals
IMAGE: Earth-abundant minerals convert sunlight into chemical energy, hinting at the evolution of photosynthesis in early...
Megalodons gave birth to large newborns that likely grew by eating unhatched eggs in womb
IMAGE: Identified annual growth bands in a vertebra of the extinct megatooth shark Otodus megalodon along...
Oldest hominins of Olduvai Gorge persisted across changing environments
IMAGE: Olduvai (now Oldupai) Gorge, known as the Cradle of Humankind, is a UNESCO World Heritage...
Research explains why crocodiles have changed so little since the age of the dinosaurs
IMAGE: The crocodiles have had a much greater diversity of forms in the past. Examples include...
No. 1 news release on EurekAlert!’s 2020 Trending List smashes previous all-time record for visits
IMAGE: The sixth most popular release in 2020 is also the first from China and described...
Early mammal with remarkably precise bite
IMAGE: The investigated dentition of P. fruitaensis. The upper molars (M2, M3) are offset from the...
Study resolves the position of fleas on the tree of life
A study of more than 1,400 protein-coding genes of fleas has resolved one of the...
The ‘crazy beast’ that lived among the dinosaurs
Adalatherium is an important piece in a very large puzzle on early mammalian evolution in...