Artist's impression of Dineobellator. (Photo: Sergey Krasovskiy)
It had feathers, an iron grip and a flexible tail for balance in chases: fossil hunters discovered a...
The North Atlantic circulation current drives the warm North Atlantic current and forms cold deep water (NADW) (Image: Yair Rosenthal / Rutgers University New...
Living environment in the Geiseltal 47 million years ago: Propalaeotherium (left) and Tapir Lophiodon (center) (image: Marton Szabo)
The ancestors of today's horses have changed...
This is how the ancestor of Bilateria might have looked. (Image: Sohail Wasif / University of California Riverside)
What did the ancestor of all bilateria...
In this Mediterranean climate zone in the mountains of central Chile, vegetation and precipitation lead to comparatively heavily weathered soil profiles. (Image: Todd Ehlers)
They...
Tundra in Alaska. (Photo: Dieter Meyerl / iSTock)
The frozen soil of the arctic permafrost areas is surprisingly permeable. Because groundwater also collects under these...
Artist's impression of Elpistostege. (Image: Katrina Kenny)
A creature from the era of land conquest: paleontologists present a "missing link" in the evolution of prehistoric...
Skull of the fossil bird Asteriornis maastrichtensis (Image: Daniel J. Field / University of Cambridge)
When did the first representatives of modern birds emerge? So...
Ice off the Antarctic coast. (Image:
Maria Stenzel)
Researchers say that what happens at the cold "ends" of the world can have a significant impact in...
(Image: Alfred Wegener Institute / Ernst Stürmer)Two ships are slowly approaching each other in the twilight of the Arctic polar winter: they are the...
Close-up of a Rangeomorpha fossil from Newfoundland. (Image: Alex Liu)
Fern-like organisms without mouth and organs were among the first multicellular animals on our planet....
This pillow basalt formed the bedrock of the Urozeans 3.2 billion years ago. (Image: Benjamin Johnson)
Oceans now cover three quarters of our planet. But...
What was Facivermis from the Cambrian seas? (Image: Franz Anthony)
Leg loss 518 million years ago: Researchers have solved the riddle of a bizarre prehistoric...
The Dhaba site in India (Image: Christina Neudorf)
When the Toba volcano erupted 74,000 years ago, this had worldwide consequences. But they were obviously less...
Artist's impression of the original green algae. (Image: Dinghua Yang)
Tiny plants - a billion years old: Researchers have discovered the oldest known fossils of...
Hardly a day goes by without a Chinese manufacturer putting forward a new, all-electric powered model. Today, it is the manufacturer Skywell, founded at...
