Evolution Diary

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Scientists have unearthed the remains of a large meat-eating dinosaur with a breathing apparatus much like a modern bird, fortifying the link between birds and dinosaurs and helping to explain the evolution of birds’ unique system of breathing. (…)

An early whale had large back legs, a tail like a dog’s, and a hip-wiggling swimming style, according to a new fossil study. (…)

Spectacular fossil forests have been found in the coal mines of Illinois by a US-UK team of researchers.
The group reported one discovery last year, but has since identified a further five examples. (…)

Is finding the world’s oldest gecko so easy a caveman could do it? (…)

The “extremely rare” fossilised skull of a steppe mammoth has been unearthed in southern France. (…)