Fossil experts say they have gained unprecedented insights into a type of enormous prehistoric shark, after finding complete skeletons of the creatures. The specimens, discovered…
View More ‘An enigma’: scientists finally learn what giant prehistoric shark looked likeTag: Evolution
Fossil of ‘largest snake to have ever existed’ found in western India
Fossil vertebrae unearthed in a mine in western India are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever lived, a monster estimated at…
View More Fossil of ‘largest snake to have ever existed’ found in western IndiaScientists link elusive human group to 150,000-year-old Chinese ‘dragon man’
They remain one of the most elusive groups of humans to have walked on earth. Evidence from the DNA traces left by Denisovans shows they…
View More Scientists link elusive human group to 150,000-year-old Chinese ‘dragon man’I discovered thousands of fossils after retiring. Now I’m nearly 80 and still going strong
My interest in fossils began at the age of 10 in my back garden in Glastonbury, Somerset, where I discovered ammonites. With hindsight, it wasn’t…
View More I discovered thousands of fossils after retiring. Now I’m nearly 80 and still going strongThe 280m-year-old fossil reptile that turned out to be a forgery
Generations of palaeontologists have marvelled over a 280m-year-old fossilised lizard-like reptile, Tridentinosaurus antiquus, discovered in the Italian Alps in 1931. Thought to be one of…
View More The 280m-year-old fossil reptile that turned out to be a forgeryHumans may have influenced evolution of dogs’ eye colour, researchers say
Human preferences for a friendly face may have steered the evolution of canine eye colour, researchers have suggested. Ever since canines were domesticated, some time…
View More Humans may have influenced evolution of dogs’ eye colour, researchers saySickly sweet: how our sugar-coated cells helped humanity turn illness into evolution
According to the latest estimates, Covid-19 may be responsible for more than 18 million deaths worldwide. While infectious diseases like this have devastated humanity, it…
View More Sickly sweet: how our sugar-coated cells helped humanity turn illness into evolution‘Darwin’s oak’ to be felled to make way for Shrewsbury bypass
As an eight-year-old, Charles Darwin may have sat in the shade beneath its boughs and climbed its branches. Two hundred years later, “Darwin’s oak” has…
View More ‘Darwin’s oak’ to be felled to make way for Shrewsbury bypass‘Callous, reckless, unethical’: scientists in row over rare fossils flown into space
It was meant to be a grand gesture that would raise the profile of South African science – by allowing fossil bones found at the…
View More ‘Callous, reckless, unethical’: scientists in row over rare fossils flown into spaceOpposites don’t attract: couples more likely to be similar than different, study shows
The power of animal magnetism has brought countless couples together, but when it comes to who we fall for, scientists say there’s little truth in…
View More Opposites don’t attract: couples more likely to be similar than different, study shows