In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this ...
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Fossils Suggest That Some Ancient Burrowing Bees Made Their Homes in Rodent Skulls
While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...
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Metabolic analyses of animal fossils help scientists reconstruct million-year-old environments
For the first time, scientists have analyzed metabolism-related molecules from the fossilized bones of animals that lived 1.3 ...
A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.
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Decades-long quest leads to first scholarly accurate fossil replica of 'dinosaur-killer' croc
Dr. David Schwimmer, an expert on the giant North American crocodilian genus Deinosuchus and a Columbus State University ...
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Mysteriously Young ‘Mammoth’ Fossils Discovered in Alaska Turned Out to Be Whale Bones
When researchers learned the fossils were merely 1,900 to 2,700 years old—which would be the youngest woolly mammoth fossils ...
Bones of now extinct species became a haven for bee babies thousands of years ago, scientists report in a first-of-its-kind ...
Burrowing bees generally prefer to make their nests in the open, but some 20,000 years ago their ancestors lived in a cave ...
Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...
Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.
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