New Fossil Evidence Challenges Long-Held Beliefs About Neanderthal Origins
New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...
DNA and 90 million-year-old pollen fossils reveal new insights into evolution of Asian tropics
In a new study published today in Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), together with global ...
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Romania’s sauropod fossils challenge ‘dwarfism’ theory of island dinosaurs
The prevailing scientific theory about dinosaurs on Hațeg Island was that they ... with both immigration and local evolution at play. More fossils are waiting to be unearthed in Europe, which ...
Scientists found a fossil of a Jurassic bird. Here's how it could rewrite history.
Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds.
An apex carnivore was ‘king of the ancient Egyptian forest’ then mysteriously went extinct. A fossil could offer clues
A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously ...
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Ancient fossil could change the evolutionary theory of fish origins
A tiny Siberian fish fossil that’s a whopping 415 million years old may be part of a group of fish that was ancestor to all the jawed vertebrates living today. Described online in the journal ...