A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

Now, a new discovery offers a clearer picture of their external appearance: Scientists re-examined an old plesiosaur fossil, which had been sitting in a museum’s storage for decades, and ...

In the latest Sustainability Landscape report, we highlight a couple of types of sustainable funds that specifically contribute to climate action: fossil-fuel-free and low carbon. Here ...

The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand how coastal environments evolved in ancient times, according to our newly published work in Palaeogeography ...

It is the first time researchers use data from ... New Fossil Discovery Sheds Light on the Early Evolution of Animal Nervous Systems Jan. 10, 2025 — An international team of scientists has ...

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Although scientists have uncovered a number of transitional fossils of bird-like animals, precisely what was the first bird is a complicated question to answer. Birds and non-avian dinosaurs are ...

A cosmic fossil record The team tackled the challenging task of determining the spin of black holes using the SDSS’s Reverberation Mapping project. This project has been making extremely precise ...

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