Fossils

Fossil finds hint at when apes and monkeys went separate ways

2013-05-15 18:41:00

Scientists have added two species of ape and monkey to the evolutionary tree, filling in a 10-million-year gap in the fossil record from a period when apes and Old World monkeys diverged. Fossil specimens of jaws and teeth, collected by Ohio...

Dinosaur heads home to Mongolia after odyssey ends in Queens

2013-05-06 15:31:00

� NEW YORK -- It's bad enough to go from roaming the earth as a fearsome predator to being uprooted and dragged across three continents, but to end up in a basement in Queens? No wonder the Tyrannosaurus bataar was broken up. Literally. But not for...

Did dinosaur ancestors benefit from worst extinction on Earth?

2013-04-30 15:08:00

Dinosaurs may have been wiped out by a mass extinction about� 65 million years ago, but an earlier extinction event may have given their predecessors a leg up on the competition, according to a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....

Four-winged dinosaur raptor feasted on fish

2013-04-23 15:20:00

Microraptor probably was as big as a hawk, had teeth like a crocodile and could spear fish like a kingfisher -- when the diminutive, four-winged dinosaur wasn’t busy plucking squirrel-like animals and other birds from trees. That’s the...

Evidence points toward solving evolutionary 'missing link'

2013-04-11 19:07:00

With long arms, high shoulder blades and powerful fingers, the ancient creatures were built for climbing trees. But they also had long lower limbs, flat feet and a flexible lumbar spine that gave them a distinct evolutionary edge: They could cover long...

Scientists sequence DNA of a 'living fossil': the coelacanth

2013-04-17 10:49:00

They're big, they're furtive, they're weird-looking. You almost certainly wouldn't want to dine on one, since they're endangered and are said to cause digestive distress in people who eat them. But the African coelacanth is extremely useful in at...

Ancient feathered birds may have sported four wings, study says

2013-03-14 13:42:00

Some of the earliest birds hailing from the age of the dinosaurs may have sported four flying limbs, a team of Chinese researchers says. If so, 11 fossils from the lower Cretaceous period, about 120 million years ago, could represent a missing link in...

Skulls of alligator kin shed new light on reptiles' murky history

2013-03-04 15:42:00

Two skulls found in the Panama Canal Zone shed new light on the migration history of caimans, southern relatives of the alligator – and also hint that North and South America were much closer together earlier than previously thought. The new study...

Creature feature: Who’s scarier — shark with buzz-saw bite or lamprey?

2013-02-28 07:03:14

San Bernardino County experts find saber-tooth fossils near Vegas

2012-12-04 11:43:28

Letters: Teach science, not creationism

2012-12-11 00:00:00

Re "Does creationism have a place at a public school?," Column, Dec. 9 Creationism in public schools should be given the same consideration as the concept of a flat Earth. Unfortunately, those who argue in favor of science generally do not present the...

A Chemical Imbalance

2006-08-03 00:00:00

As she stared down into a wide-mouthed plastic jar aboard the R/V Discoverer, Victoria Fabry peered into the future. The marine snails she was studying — graceful creatures with wing-like feet that help them glide through the water — had...

Here, in the basement of Dave's Down to Earth Rock Shop in Evanston, there be monsters, or at least their remains. There's the jaw section of a T-rex as well as a T-rex egg, a raptor egg, a dinosaur leg bone (no sitting, please), and the impressive full skeleton of a cave bear.

2012-07-25 00:00:00

Right-wing pundit Ann Coulter has dismissed Darwinism as a cult. In 2011 she wrote an article bashing liberals who believed in Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

2012-07-10 00:00:00

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The shell of an extinct snail, Ecphora gardnerae gardnerae, has been the Maryland State Fossil Shell since 1994. Five million years ago, they inhabited the tidal waters around what we now call the Chesapeake Bay.

2007-06-22 00:00:00