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New 150-Million-Year-Old Fossil Has Rewritten The History Of Bird Evolution—A Biologist Explains

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Fossil discoveries unlock chapters of our planet’s storied ...
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First Deep-Sea Photographs of the Coelacanth Reveal Evolution’s Living Link and the Tech That Found It

It’s not just a fish… it’s a masterpiece in the history of evolution. That’s the way marine biologist Jessica Gordon characterized the coelacanth, an animal whose existence was once thought to be ...

Misfit of evolution? 37-million-year-old ‘paradox snake’ fossil was neither a swimmer nor a digger

A peculiar 37-million-year-old snake fossil, Paradoxophidion richardoweni, unearthed in England, is rewriting evolutionary ...
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Fun with fossils: South African kids learn a whole lot more about human evolution from museum workshops

Shaw Badenhorst works for the University of the Witwatersrand. He receives funding from GENUS, the National Research Foundation and the Palaeontological Scientific Trust. South Africa has one of the ...
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Intelligent Life In Cosmos Is Likely Very Rare, Says Paleontologist

Paleontologists who study earth’s ancient fossil record might not seem to be the obvious choice when asking about the prevalence of intelligent life in the cosmos. But paleontology, the study of ...
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Tour Egypt’s Valley of the Whales for a window onto the history of evolution

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Ancient Egyptian history is brought to life by a cast of thousands, from Tutankhamun’s gilded death mask to the pyramids’ enigmatic ...