A fossil sitting in a small museum on the Isle of Wight for years, long assumed to belong to an already-known species, has ...
I approached the table, holding my breath. In front of me were two palm sized, flat rocks. They held two halves of one animal, pressed between their solid mustard pages. The skeleton was surrounded by ...
Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...
In southern Africa, dinosaurs and synapsids, a group of animals that includes mammals and their closest fossil relatives, survived in a 'land of fire' at the start of an Early Jurassic mass extinction ...
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We synthesized data from 75 biodiversity experiments across grasslands and forests worldwide to test how climate extremes and environmental context shape the effects of plant diversity on productivity ...
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