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Meet the ‘Old Mother Goose’ from NZ’s subtropical prehistoric past
4+ hour, 28+ min ago (822+ words) Associate Professor in Ancient DNA, University of Otago Curator of Vertebrates, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Nic Rawlence receives funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund and the University of Otago. Alan Tennyson received funding…...
Rain is coming to Antarctica – here’s how it will change the frozen continent
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (907+ words) Bethan Davies receives funding from the FCDO Polar Regions Department. Newcastle University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Rain is rare in Antarctica. Scientists doing fieldwork there dress for cold and glare, not wet weather " duvet jackets,…...
250 million-year-old amphibian fossils from Australia reveal global spread of ‘sea-salamanders’
1+ week, 31+ min ago (703+ words) Lecturer, School of Education, UNSW Sydney Lachlan Hart does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment....
Snowball Earth wasn’t fully frozen: ice-free oases sheltered early life
2+ week, 3+ day ago (770+ words) Research Fellow, School of Ocean & Earth Science, University of Southampton, University of Southampton Professor in Earth & Climate Science, University of Southampton Thomas Gernon receives funding from the WoodNext Foundation, a fund of a donor-advised fund program. He is affiliated with…...
No animal alive today is ‘primitive’ – why are so many still labeled that way?
2+ week, 6+ day ago (588+ words) Kevin Omland does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. We humans have long viewed ourselves…...
Epiaceratherium itjilik: The rhino that lived in the Arctic
1+ mon, 22+ hour ago (797+ words) Danielle Fraser received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC RGPIN-2018-05305). Natalia Rybczynski, who co-authored the study mentioned in this article, received funding from the W. Garfield Weston Foundation. Mary Dawson, a co-author on the study,…...
Fossil hunters find a new dinosaur track site on South Africa’s coast – the youngest so far
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (756+ words) Nelson Mandela University provides support as an endorsing partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Two exciting recent discoveries confirm, however, that there is more to find of dinosaurs that lived in southern Africa a long time after those lava flows. First,…...
DNA from wolf pup’s last meal reveals new facts about woolly rhino’s extinction
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (893+ words) Professor of Zoology and Joint Head of Department of Biology, University of Oxford Timothy Neal Coulson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has…...
The first ice core library in Antarctica to save humanity’s climate memory
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (732+ words) Emeritus Professor of Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern Thomas Stocker is the president of the Ice Memory Foundation. On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples from glaciers rescued worldwide…...
A speeding clock could solve Darwin’s mystery of gaps in animal fossil records
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (892+ words) Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, UCL Max Telford does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their…...