Germany and Brazil reach agreement over controversial fossil, heralding new collaboration between the two nations

Butterfly fossils are rare, and finds that preserve fine anatomical details and wing patterns are an absolute exception. An international research team from Sweden, the U.S., and Germany, led by Dr. H...

D. H. Janzen, Chihuahuan Desert Nopaleras: Defaunated Big Mammal Vegetation, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Vol. 17 (1986), pp. 595-636

Commercial harvesting of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus), primarily by British and American whalers during the late-1700s to early-1900s, nearl...

The dismissals from an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation marked the president’s latest assault on scientific research organizations.

Trump fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees NSF. The institutional design that built American science is at stake.

ALT: a whale is swimming in the ocean and has white spots on its back

Americans love their national parks.There’s a reason why they were once described as “America’s best idea.”So why are Tr

Maryland lawmakers are considering a bill to make the megalodon — the biggest shark that ever lived — Maryland’s state shark. But the clock is ticking.

Turiasaurs are large-bodied eusauropods found in Early Jurassic to Early Cretaceous deposits across Gondwana and Laurasia. However, their early history is poorly known. Here, we report a lower-midd...

The geological record provides us with absolute ages of past events and organisms, but it also contains information about what occurred within time intervals ranging from seconds to eons. Within this ...

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