Early angiosperms represent a pivotal chapter in plant evolution, marked by rapid diversification and profound ecological impact during the Early Cretaceous. These flowering plants, distinguished by ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than previously thought and in Asia not Africa, a new study said ...

The researchers' wider analysis, based on the reconstruction and more than 100 other skull fossils, has sketched a radically ...

How does it take for an animal to make its mark in history particularly when its bones are as delicate as a potato chip? Eotephradactylus mcintireae’s answer is a mix of volcanic ash, river ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

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