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none of them hibernate in the way that garter snakes do," study co-author Michael Caldwell, a professor of paleontology at the University of Alberta, said in a statement. These fossils being found ...

A fossil once hailed as evidence of a unique mosasaur species, Xenodens calminechari, may be a forgery, a new study claims.

Jan. 7, 2025 — A newly described dinosaur whose fossils were recently uncovered is challenging the existing narrative, with evidence that the reptiles were present in the northern hemisphere ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — Scientists have identified fossils of snow leopards. The discovery has allowed them to trace the evolutionary history of the species during the Quaternary period and to propose ...

Scientists discovered a new species of prehistoric snapping turtle after re-examining an unidentified fossil on display in a ...

With this perspective in mind, saying ‘Data is the fossil fuel of AI, and we used it all!’ amounts to equating qualitative, contextually rich, and diverse datasets to a finite resource ...

Monkeys, like humans, have an in-built ability to spot snakes ultra-fast, and new research suggests scales are a key visual ...

A MIND-boggling discovery has left scientists even more puzzled about one of the most mysterious fossils ever found. A 47-million-year-old plant fossil, first unearthed in Utah’s Green River ...

Scientists have uncovered the fossil remains of a tiny feline species smaller than a house cat from an ancient cave in eastern China. Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences say the ...

Fossils of two prehistoric marine molluscs with distinctive spiky “hairstyles” have been discovered and named Punk and Emo. Their strange appearance highlights the ancient diversity of ...