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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 ...
The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this ...
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160-Million-Year-Old Fossils Rewrite the Story of Dinosaur Flight
Learn how rare fossil feathers preserved molting patterns, revealing new findings of dinosaur flight.
Scientists exploring Romania’s Hațeg Basin have discovered one of the densest dinosaur fossil sites ever found, with bones ...
A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.
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.
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 ...
In a paleontological first, researchers have discovered that bees used the jawbones of now extinct mammals as burrows. When ...
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