Try, try, and try again: prehistoric plant fossils help carve out the evolution of complex vein networks in flowering plants
Paleontologists taking a closer look at an old fossil uncover new information about how leaves evolved.
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Viral Fossil Records: A Look into the Past! (and the Future?)
by Misha Guptafigures by Xiaomeng Han
For close to two centuries, humans have been studying the biological past using fossil records. In recent history, we have added the ability to reconstruct the sequence of our DNA to our arsenal. Furthermore,…
Researchers Discover Oldest Ancestor of Almost Every Animal
Researchers at UC Riverside have discovered the oldest ancestor of almost all animals, including humans. This worm fills in a long-missing gap of the evolutionary biology puzzle.
So what color was that dinosaur, actually?
Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops, Saber-toothed Tiger…as kids, we probably imagined these creatures using a variety of crayon colors. But what if we could figure out what color these creatures actually were? A scientific technique developed by Roy Wogelius…