For years, we suspected that Alvarezsaurids underwent a rare process of evolutionary miniaturization directly coupled to a ...

We all have a concept of reality. We know what is “fact” and what isn’t. However, the truth of the matter is that the definition of “real” is a mere construct of the brain. If that didn’t blow your ...

This ‘living fossil' sat on the ocean floor for years before anyone realized what it really was.

A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

A meditation on observation, revision, and the quiet thrill of being wrong — and what all of that means for conservation.

Handling and analysing the massive volume of genomic data generated by the project, however, poses a major challenge.

Paleontologists surveying a dry riverbed in northeastern Brazil repeatedly encountered the same type of fossil: a lower jaw ...

Biologists identify a new species of "living fossil" chiton through cutting-edge mitochondrial genome sequencing.

An Osaka Metropolitan University-led research team discovered a novel bacterial species after analyzing cells isolated from ...