In the quest to decipher the evolutionary relationships of extinct organisms from fossils, researchers often face challenges in discerning key features from weathered fossils, or with prioritizing ...
Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...
The latest analysis also suggests other hard-to-classify fossils uncovered in China should be grouped with Homo longi and the Denisovans — including fossils that another research team recently ...
Trace fossils capture the presence and behaviours of ancient organisms in the form of trackways, trails, and burrows preserved in the rock record. They are important sources of evidence for ...