First “four-legged snake fossil” was a false alarm
Researchers suggest that an old study that claimed it had found an ancestral snake fossil had no legs after all
How we know that Neanderthals were artists
Two researchers explain how they concluded that Neanderthals were not all that different from the modern humans who replaced them Chris Standish, University of Southampton and Alistair Pike, University of…
The rock that shook the earth
The meteorite that brought about dinosaur extinction also sparked volcanic eruptions throughout the world’s oceans Leif Karlstrom, University of Oregon and Joseph Byrnes, University of Minnesota The end of the…
A dino in iridescent color
A wonderfully preserved Jurassic relative of both birds and T. rex shows that iridescent feathers were fashionable in ancient times, too