All Paleobiology
Scientists find Earth’s common ancestor
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Aug 2016
A team of researchers in Germany believe that they may have found the common ancestor linked to all…
Cause of Megalodons’ extinction revealed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Apr 2016
Scientists from Zurich University have proposed the largest shark that ever lived became extinct du…
Complete fossilised nervous system discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Mar 2016
A fossil more than 500m years old with a well preserved central nervous system has been found by sc…
Ancient bees collected pollen in two ways
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Dec 2015
The ancestors of honeybees that lived 50 million years ago collected pollen in two ways.
Life hits 4.1 billion years
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2015
New evidence suggests that life on Earth began 300 million years earlier than previously thought.
Double stretch for giraffe’s neck
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Nov 2015
Scientists have discovered that the long neck of modern-day giraffes evolved in two stages.
X-rays unravel fossil secrets
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Oct 2015
By using an X-ray imaging technique, palaeontologists have discovered borings made by shell inverte…
New human-like species found
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Sep 2015
Anthropologists have discovered a new human-like species – Homo naledi – in the Rising Cave system …
Britain’s oldest sauropod dinosaur found
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jun 2015
Palaeontologists have discovered Britain’s oldest sauropod dinosaur fossil on the coast of North Yo…
The oldest unevolved organism
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Apr 2015
Scientists have discovered a deep-sea microorganism that shows no evidence of evolution in the last…
AMS shows modern humans and Neanderthals overlapped
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Dec 2014
Strong evidence that Neanderthals overlapped with modern humans for up to 5,400 years has been reve…
Mary Rose dog male, not female
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Nov 2014
The smallest member of the crew on board the Mary Rose – a dog named Hatch – was a he and not a she…
New finding challenges belief birds evolved from dinosaurs
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jul 2014
A sparrow-sized fossil from China challenges the commonly held belief that birds evolved from groun…
Fossil find could shed light on Neanderthal – human interbreeding
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2014
A collection of human fossils feared lost has been found and could shed light on whether Neandertha…
Deep sea root of marine evolution sparks controversy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jun 2014
The deep ocean may have played a much bigger role in protecting marine diversity than first thought…
Dino weigh-in sheds light on evolution
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 May 2014
Rapidly shrinking body sizes allowed feathered dinosaurs to exploit ecological niches throughout th…
Acid rain plays role in Great Dying
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Nov 2013
Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice could have contributed to the Great Dying, a severe mass ex…
Evolutionary grains of sand
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Sep 2013
Evolutionary ecologists are using “grains of sand” to understand more about evolutionary processes.…
X-rays reveal ‘dinobird’ shook patterned tail feather
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jul 2013
Using X-rays to complete the first chemical analysis of feathers from a fossil linking dinosaurs an…
Hunter-gatherers had a taste for fish
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 May 2013
The first study to directly address the often posed question, “why did humans make pots?” reveals t…
