Evolution Diary

UCR part of teams from 5 research universities that analyzed Australian drill core for evidence of oxygen in Earth’s early atmosphere
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (…)

The thick coats of shaggy hair that kept woolly mammoths warm on the icy tundra have yielded enough intact DNA to sequence their genomes, a new study reports. (…)

This ghostly animal is a completely different kettle of fish. (…)

This unusual species of flying fox was recently discovered in the Philippines not long after it was deemed not to exist. (…)

Bumps on the forearm bone of a velociraptor fossil suggest the predators were adorned with fluffy feathers, a new study says. (…)