Death is inevitable for individuals and also for species. With help from the fossil record, paleontologists are piecing together what might make one creature more vulnerable than another.
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Little skates that 'walk' across the ocean floor show how fish brains evolved to pave the way for working legs.
Scientists believe since 2010 we have entered the sixth period of mass extinction. CO2 emissions will change the lives of plants and animals in the next three to four decades.
Recent research suggests that humankind's origins lay outside of Africa. This is the nature of science: a paradigm that cannot be questioned on a regular basis becomes a dogma.
Until this discovery, theropod dinosaurs were thought to be considerably smaller, at three to five metres in body length, during the Early Jurassic.
Rather than castigate those who deny evolution, it is more useful to consider their arguments to help science explain it better
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Lecturer at Department of Geology, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung
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Hon. Research Fellow; Professor Emeritus, University of Glasgow
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Postdoc in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Geology, Institut Teknologi Bandung
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Professor in Geology, Institut Teknologi Bandung
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Senior Lecturer in Vertebrate Biology, Liverpool John Moores University
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Post-doctoral Researcher in Invertebrate Paleontology, University of Kansas
