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Two-million-year-old teeth unlock new secrets of ancient human relatives - Scientists made a surprising discovery when ...
Unreal Amber Fossils Show ‘Last of Us’ Zombie Fungus Terrorizing Bugs During the Cretaceous Researchers discovered two previously unknown species of parasitic fungi inside ancient amber fossils.
One of our researchers, Dr Imran Rahman, has been focused on understanding the early evolution of echinoderms. He was involved in studying the new fossils and using it to recreate the evolutionary ...
The seagrass is greener along Florida’s Nature Coast … figuratively, that is. A new study published in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series shows that seagrass ecosystems along the northern half ...
A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head.
“Amber gives us this opportunity to visualize the ancient ecological relationships preserved in fossils,” said Yuhui Zhuang, a doctoral student at the Institute of Paleontology at Yunnan University in ...
A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head.
Marine brachiopod fossils found among Roman artifacts on Morocco’s Mogador Island predate the island itself and may have ended up there via ancient trade networks.
One hypothesis suggests the fossils may have been traded for use in ritual or medicinal practices, researchers said. Photo by Jens Lehmann. During an excavation on Morocco’s Mogador Island ...
The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).