An international team of researchers has managed to classify fossils of one of the most species-rich fish groups into a family tree for the first time. An international team of researchers led by ...

In paleontology and paleobiology, we ask questions about the evolution of life that range across all geological time and span from individual species to the whole of life. We study the evolution of ...

Compiled using information from the Paleobiology Database, the graphic plots fossils uncovered by paleontologists around the world. The scientists maintaining the database have cataloged a massive ...

Researchers at the Department of Paleobiology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid report that analysis of a Neanderthal ribcage from a cave in Iraq exhibits a "bell-shaped" thorax ...

LMU zoologists have found the first ever riffle beetle larva in Baltic amber. Amber is a treasure trove of information from the Earth's past, as it can preserve trapped plants and animals down to ...

Dillon is one of the rising stars in the burgeoning new field of conservation paleobiology, which uses the fossil record to inform and assist present-day conservation efforts. “We often need ...

Dr. Darin Croft studies the evolution of mammals over geologic time using living mammals and the fossil record. His research focuses on the mammals of South America, a continent with a rich fossil ...

Source: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology This allowed prehistoric humans to excel at hunting. We'd jog after large prey under the midday sun until they died from exhaustion.

The crests were signs of dinosaur sociality. The question was how to test these ideas, but in a landmark 1981 Paleobiology paper David Weishampel looked to the internal anatomy of hadrosaur skulls ...

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Students pursuing graduate degrees in paleontology and paleobiology can apply directly to the MSAA or through the Department of Biology.