Ancient wings reveal their colours
Moths from the Messel Shale were yellow-green, says new structural analysis.
View ArticleEdiacaran rocks sport early animal fossils
Baseball- and football-shaped microfossils interpreted as metazoan embryos.
View ArticleCan mammoths really be cloned?
Russian-Japanese team suggests mammoth resurrection within five years; other scientists question veracity and value.
View ArticleVision of a Cambrian predator
"Huge, sophisticated eyes" described from Australian anomalocaridid.
View ArticleEars before bat-time
Crickets and other insects evolved hearing before appearance of echo-locating bats.
View ArticleDarwin's lost plants discovered in cabinet
Polished sections of specimens from Beagle voyage found at British Geological Survey.
View ArticleMichael Jackson rocks the Mesozoic
Hermit crab from the Cretaceous of Spain named after the 'King of Pop'
View ArticleCambrian tulips in the Rockies
Burgess Shale throws up mysterious, flower-like filter-feeder.
View ArticleGrowing up slowly
New study says evolution of shrew- to elephant-sized land mammals took 24 million generations.
View ArticleThe Jurassic cricket's love song
Exceptionally preserved katydid from Mongolia "made a resonant sound - a bit like a violin."
View ArticlePermafrost plants brought back to life
Campion seeds germinate after burial by squirrels 30,000 years ago.
View ArticlePermian plants preserved in peaty Pompeii
Chinese fossils "provide a view into the guts of a coal-forming swamp in its prime."
View ArticleEarly fleas packed big bite
Much larger than modern counterparts, Jurassic blood-suckers were well-equipped for piercing tough hides.
View Article'Incredible' Canadian fossil beds recognized
Protected status to be given to Eocene site in British Columbia.
View ArticleThe deer-eating cave-dwellers
...but controversy over whether Chinese hominid fossils represent new species of human.
View ArticleAustralian megafauna 'killed off by humans'
New palaeoenvironmental analysis indicates hunting was responsible for extinction of Pleistocene giants.
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