The team has been excavating caves at Pinnacle Point, South Africa, for nearly 20 years. Glass shards were discovered at the PP5-6 location.

Research shows humans thrived through Toba super-volcanic eruption

Teleocrater, an early dinosaur relative, is shown feeding on Cynognathus, while hippo-like dicynodonts look on. All of these animals lived in the mid-Triassic of Tanzania, about 240 million years ago.

Decade of fossil collecting gives new perspective on Triassic period, emergence...

Seismogram

Sediment core from sluice pond contains evidence for 1755 New England...

yeti crab

Deep-sea wildlife more vulnerable to extinction than first thought

Sperm whales (above), which have teeth, don’t grow as large as baleen whales

Why aquatic mammals need to be big, but not too big

The Stanton Landslide (center middle distance) is over 800 meters across and has left an obvious scar in the hillside above the deposit.

Landslide modeling after Kaikoura Quake provides data to first responders

Using Argonne's Advanced Photon Source, researchers identified a form of water known as Ice-VII, which was trapped within diamonds that crystallized deep in the Earth's mantle.

Argonne’s powerful X-rays key to confirming water source deep below Earth’s...

Head of Nasutoceratops.

Dinosaur frills and horns did not evolve for species recognition

Top: A medaka fish with normal dorsal and paired pectoral/pelvic fins. Bottom: When the ZRS and sZRS enhancers are knocked out, the fins do not develop normally.

Genetic analysis uncovers the evolutionary origin of vertebrate limbs

Colobops noviportensis

Paleontologists put the bite on an ancient reptile from New England

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