Tag Archives: Paleobiology

A mammoth task

A team of researchers at the University of Chicago carried out the first in-depth analysis of the woolly mammoth genome recently.    ... more

Ancient relatives

Palaeontologists have uncovered fossils in the United States of a giant, prehistoric crocodile that hunted on its hind legs. It lived    ... more

Working man’s smile

A 2.8-million-year-old lower jawbone uncovered recently in Afar, Ethiopia may be the earliest record of ancient humans ever discovered. A graduate    ... more