Jun 5, 2013 ... An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of the world's oldest known fossil primate skeleton, an animal that lived ...
When it was flying over the lagoons and beaches 170 million years ago, it was the largest flying animal that had ever lived (that we know of!). With a wingspan ...
Dec 2, 2013 ... One of the world's strangest animals -- a legless, leaping fish that lives on land -- uses camouflage to avoid attacks by predators such as ...
Sep 24, 2013 ... ... known as a "molecular clock." This method compares the amount of genetic divergence between living animals, caused by changes in their DNA ...
Apr 14, 2020 ... ... longest living thing on the planet ... Even at its lowest estimate, this would still be at least 20 feet longer than any other known ...
Dec 5, 2012 ... "In living animals ... 8, 2021 — Though discovered more than 45 years ago, fossils of Earth's largest flying animal, Quetzalcoatlus, were never ...
Sep 21, 2018 ... Whether they're the oldest known animal fossils is a tricky question ... Dickinsonia was evidently far from the first animal on Earth.
Jul 16, 2014 ... Scientists have found the fossilized remains of the brain of the world's earliest known predators, from a time when life teemed in the ...
Located in the heart of Philadelphia's Museums District, the Academy brings science to life through a world-renowned collection of specimens and living animals.
Oct 10, 2012 ... The new fossil collection described in this study predates the oldest known records of the present-day fauna. ... living species, unlike older ...
Further investigation led him to believe that these fossils were evidence of the oldest animal life on Earth. ... known animals on Earth. Credits: Story.
Mar 8, 2021 ... ... animals' appearance and likely behaviors to genetic analysis of currently living things. Their research on these links has been recently ...
However, this discovery marked the oldest known occurrence of a Paget-like disease – and suggests that susceptibility to such disorders was already present in ...
The species that survive—the elephants—are the largest land animals on Earth. ... It is the oldest known species of hominids in Europe. Archeologists have ...
Mar 19, 2020 ... ... Earth's plant and animal species. A current estimate for the ... Until now the oldest fossil of an anatomically modern bird was one ...
The Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery celebrates the cultural achievements of Australia's Aboriginal people, one of the world's oldest continuous living ...
... Earth's oldest-known rock. The Earth is 500 million years older still, but no record of that early time has survived our planet's geologic activity.