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A fossil from a previously undiscovered species with feathery limbs, unearthed in China, adds to evidence that dinosaurs and birds evolved flight more than once.

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Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Natural history can captivate the minds of all manner of people for a multitude of reasons, but a shifting media landscape demands adaptation from public educators....

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Welcome to the SystAssn-SRUK/CERU-PalAss Morphological Phylogenetics Workshop application form. The workshop will be held at University College London on November 9th-11th. We look forward to seeing ...

Birds can surpass all other terrestrial vertebrates in vocal amplitude, yet why some birds sing louder than others remains unclear. Using calibrated field

Sauropodomorph-bearing assemblages from the Khorat Plateau, Thailand, begin at least 20 million years later than previously believed, with subsequent faunal turnover paralleling that observed in Laura...

Microraptorines were bird-like dinosaurs that possessed some flight adaptations. A new fossil species from the early Cretaceous, Norellraptor barsboldi, suggests that this group evolved their own flig...

Background Though skeletal adaptations for locomotion in mammals are well documented, possible limb adaptations in terms of muscle architecture have received far less study. Examining mustelid mammals...

A man found rare mastodon tooth near Adams Lake in British Columbia, a fossil find researchers say could reveal new information to what is known about the history of the area.

Abstract. Large phylogenetic trees are often unbalanced near the root, with a species-depauperate lineage sister to a far more species-rich clade. The spec

Scientists searched for the inclusion of the Gaelic and Scots words for oyster or oysters in place-names around Scotland's coast.

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More than $1 million in gifts from BGSU alumna Sue Goldstein, Ph.D., ’74 and the estate of longtime professor Don C. Steinker, Ph.D., will expand research, fieldwork and professional opportunities for...

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Recent decades have witnessed an unprecedented rise in avian fossil discoveries that directly inform our understanding of bird origins and evolution, the stepwise assemblage of the avian body plan,...

Queer ecology is a vibrant and rapidly evolving field, exploring the astonishing diversity of sexes and sexual repertoires found among plants and animals. For some, this has been a revelation.