Clavusodens mcginnisi, or McGinnis's nail-tooth, was found fossilized in Mammoth Cave, the world's longest cave system. The fossilized teeth were discovered in the Ste. Genevieve Formation, a layer of ...

Deep within Mammoth Cave, the world’s longest cave system, paleontologists have uncovered the remains of a never-before-seen ...

Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

The earliest known fossil of a terrestrial plant that shows almost its entire structure has gone on display for the first time in the world at an exhibition in Tokyo. Although it was discovered ...

The plant fossils of Mazon Creek are stored in rows of cabinets two stories underneath the Field Museum, where Michael Donovan is the collections manager. No one is going to get rich off selling ...

Where does biodiversity come from? It’s a question many generations of biologists have spent their time thinking about.” ...

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Now an arid desert, the region the fossils were found would've been a humid forest 250 million years ago. (Image credit: NIGPAS) The planet's memory These findings have led to some debate over ...

Fossil fuels are bad for us, both to our climate and to our health. These impacts are felt most acutely in fenceline communities immediately adjacent to fossil fuel power plants, which also tend ...