A new 130-million-year-old fossil "shakes up the evolutionary tree" of ichthyosaurs, which were ancient animals that look eerily like living swordfish.
Shirley Cardenas-McGill •
futurity
Nov. 30, 2021
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~5 min
A two-million-year-old fossil vertebrae shows Australopithecus sediba used their upper limbs to climb like apes and their lower limbs to walk like humans.
James Devitt-NYU •
futurity
Nov. 29, 2021
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~8 min
An asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago killed nearly all dinosaurs, plants, and animals. So how did some creatures survive the mass extinction?
Jim Erickson-Michigan •
futurity
Nov. 3, 2021
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~12 min