Fossil-sorting robot can do a boring job

A fossil-sorting robot could make it easier and less tedious for researchers to study the climate and oceans of today and the past.

Matt Shipman-NC State • futurity
Dec. 12, 2022 ~6 min

2 species are the oldest ancestors of living lizards

Two new lizard species fill important gaps in the fossil record and offer tantalizing clues about the complexity of lizard evolution

Jim Shelton-Yale • futurity
Dec. 5, 2022 ~5 min


525-million-year-old fossil may rewrite history of brain evolution

Fossils of a tiny sea creature solve a century-old debate over brain evolution in arthropods, according to new research.

Daniel Stolte-Arizona • futurity
Nov. 29, 2022 ~8 min

Thigh bone evolution got dinos up on two feet

Researchers have charted the evolution of the leggy alterations that allowed dinosaurs and birds to stand on their own two feet.

Jim Shelton-Yale • futurity
Nov. 23, 2022 ~5 min

Extinct monkey teeth help zero in on age of human fossils

The teeth of a monkey that went extinct about 500,000 years ago is offering clues to the ages of fossils of human ancestors in South Africa.

U. Oregon • futurity
Nov. 21, 2022 ~6 min

Extinct monkey teeth help zero in on age of human fossils

The teeth of a monkey that went extinct about 500,000 years ago is offering clues to the ages of fossils of human ancestors in South Africa.

U. Oregon • futurity
Nov. 21, 2022 ~6 min

AI says dino footprints don’t belong to a predator

Prehistoric footprints attributed to a vicious dinosaur predator are actually from a timid herbivore, artificial intelligence indicates.

U. Queensland • futurity
Nov. 15, 2022 ~4 min

‘Living fossil’ clam found alive and well in California tidepools

A clam previously known only from fossils and believed to be long lost to the passage of time was recently found living in California.

Harrison Tasoff-UC Santa Barbara • futurity
Nov. 9, 2022 ~8 min


How gravity inside the Earth shaped landscape evolution

New research may alter the way scientists attempt to uncover the history of Earth as an evolving planet.

Gregory Filiano-Stony Brook • futurity
Oct. 11, 2022 ~6 min

Team finds oldest ever gibbon fossil

The newly discovered fossil clarifies our understanding of the evolution of a family of apes that includes modern gibbons.

James Devitt-NYU • futurity
Sept. 14, 2022 ~5 min

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