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Miners in Zambia unearthed the Broken Hill skull in 1921, a fossil initially baffling scientists with its mix of modern and ...

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New research proposes the Brain-First Hypothesis: the evolution of the brain drove animal diversification during the Cambrian ...

The idea came to Jablonski after studying bird behavior in the American West. He noticed some birds would fling out their ...

In front of us was a dinosaur skeleton the size of a large dog. It was obviously a dinosaur, as it had the reinforced pelvis, ...

New experiments suggest that freezing and thawing on early Earth may have helped primitive cell-like structures grow and ...

In the exurbs of the Milky Way, near a satellite galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, researchers have discovered the most metal-poor, chemically primitive star ever found, according to new ...

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Life reconstruction of the biggest Silurian vertebrate, Megamastax amblyodus. Credit: Image by NICE PaleoVislab, IVPP Ancient fossils from South China reveal the earliest bony fishes and shed new ...

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We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and use terms like “higher” and “lower” animals. This anthropocentric ...