The world's top wildlife trade organization increased protections on Friday for more than 70 species of sharks and rays, in a ...

When physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio unearthed a fossil in Brazil's southern Rio Grande do Sul state in 2014, he could ...

Prof. Deecke's essays on broad questions of geology always provide interesting reading. The present work is perhaps unduly sceptical; but its stimulus to further comparison and correlation is based on ...

SERVING VISIT. OMAHA TAKES US TO THE HEART OF THE OLD MARKET. BRAND NEW FLORA CAFE AT 1009 FARNAM STREET. I AM JOINED BY ARACELI AND KALE. THANK YOU BOTH FOR HAVING US TODAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR ...

A crest on a 247-million-year-old reptile fossil seems to be a new type of appendage made of neither feathers nor hair. The creature may have used the crest for communication. The specimen pre-dates ...

A reptile from the Middle Triassic had a spectacular crest made from feather-like structures, around 100 million years before the first feathered dinosaurs. Its remains comprise two fossils with the ...

Body coverings such as hair and feathers have played a central role in evolution. They enabled warm-bloodedness by insulating the body, and were used for courtship, display, deterrence of enemies and, ...

The odd structure is distinct from anything seen in living animals and likely created a colorful display Jack Tamisiea A paleoartist’s reconstruction of Mirasaura grauvogeli, an early reptile from the ...

This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park. Triassic Playground, like Jurassic Playground across Meadow Lake, was created to commemorate the Sinclair ...

THE concluding part of Mr. Seward's catalogue of the Jurassic floras makes the catalogue a nearly complete treatise on the known fossil remains of plants from the Trias, Rhætic, Lias and Oolite of ...

A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "Life oasis" for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis ...

Everything has its pecking order, and geology is no exception. The cocks of the rocks are the big, swaggering periods of the past that fill books, television programmes and natural-history museums.