Are horseshoe crabs truly “living fossils”?
Scientists discovered a 445-million-year-old horseshoe crab fossil showing that these animals have maintained the same reproductive system…
Tag: Paleontology
What colors were prehistoric mammals?
Paleontologists used fossilized pigment cells to reconstruct the fur colors of Mesozoic mammals, shedding light on their nocturnal…
A new treasure trove of Cambrian fossils
Paleontologists discovered a new set of fossils from the ancient ancestors of animals in rocks from China.
How quickly did life recover from the end-Permian mass extinction?
Paleontologists described exceptionally well-preserved fossils of a complex marine ecosystem that developed within 1 million years of a…
How did nautiloids survive extinction?
Researchers found nautiloids outlived other shelly creatures in the late-Cretaceous extinction because they had slower metabolisms.
A trilobite’s last supper
Paleontologists described a trilobite fossil preserved in 3D with its gut contents intact.
How smart were the dinosaurs?
A researcher from Vanderbilt University inferred dinosaur intelligence from fossilized skulls. She used the skulls to estimate the number of…
Cave Bears Probably Did Eat Their Vegetables
Modern bears, while typically thought of as carnivores, actually have a wide variety of dietary preferences. Some eat only meat while others…