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Study Finds Possible 236-Million-Year-Old Evidence of Live Birth in Mammal Ancestor

If confirmed, the bone microstructure and size estimates in a Chiniquodon specimen could move the origin of mammalian-style live birth tens of millions of years earlier pending more fossil proof.

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Mexico and Central America Served as a 10‑Million‑Year Holding Pen for Northern Mammals

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Early Cambrian Fossil Pushes Cephalopod Siphuncle Back 30 Million Years

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Near-Complete Triassic Austronaga Fossil Preserves Internal Organs

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Cretaceous Skull Reveals Earliest Head‑First Burrowing Snake

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Ediacaran Fossils Show Population-Level Turning Bias, Researchers Say

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Study Finds Warming and Oxygen Loss, Not Acidification, Drove Earth’s Largest Mass Extinction

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550-Million-Year-Old Worm Shows Population Bias for Rightward Turns

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2mo ago

Protein Analysis Shows All Sampled Homo Naledi Remains Are Female

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2mo ago

Fossil Hatchlings Show Early Tetrapods Grew Up Without Tadpole Metamorphosis

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2mo ago

Pterosaur Wing Yields Steroid Biomarkers and Shows Microbe-Driven Mineral Sealing

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2mo ago

Yukon Squirrel Coprolites Yield 700,000‑Year Environmental DNA

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2mo ago

New Microraptor Relative Jian changmaensis Identified in China

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Museum Reassessment Identifies Praearcturus gigas as a One‑Metre Scorpion

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2mo ago

Frozen Squirrel Poop Yields 700,000-Year Archive of Ice‑Age DNA

Paleontology

Study Finds Possible 236-Million-Year-Old Evidence of Live Birth in Mammal Ancestor

Study Finds Archaeopteryx Took Off With a Series of Hops

Study Finds Dinosaurs Were Barred From Evolving into Very Small Body Sizes

New Ice Age Toad, Spea labreae, Described From La Brea Tar Pits

Review Links Cambrian 'Faecal Revolution' to Rise of Animal Life

Ancient DNA Shows Ice Age Humans Mostly Harvested Female Mammoths

Mexico and Central America Served as a 10‑Million‑Year Holding Pen for Northern Mammals

Early Cambrian Fossil Pushes Cephalopod Siphuncle Back 30 Million Years

Near-Complete Triassic Austronaga Fossil Preserves Internal Organs

Cretaceous Skull Reveals Earliest Head‑First Burrowing Snake

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Ediacaran Fossils Show Population-Level Turning Bias, Researchers Say

Study Finds Warming and Oxygen Loss, Not Acidification, Drove Earth’s Largest Mass Extinction

550-Million-Year-Old Worm Shows Population Bias for Rightward Turns

Protein Analysis Shows All Sampled Homo Naledi Remains Are Female

Fossil Hatchlings Show Early Tetrapods Grew Up Without Tadpole Metamorphosis

Pterosaur Wing Yields Steroid Biomarkers and Shows Microbe-Driven Mineral Sealing

Yukon Squirrel Coprolites Yield 700,000‑Year Environmental DNA

New Microraptor Relative Jian changmaensis Identified in China

Museum Reassessment Identifies Praearcturus gigas as a One‑Metre Scorpion

Frozen Squirrel Poop Yields 700,000-Year Archive of Ice‑Age DNA

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