The scarcity of bat fossils is more than a palaeontological puzzle: it has implications for bat conservation strategies today.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Pleistocene era
Displaying all articles
Ancient microbes likely produced natural products their descendants today do not. Tapping into this lost chemical diversity could offer a potential source of new drugs.
Human tracks registered in aeolianites - cemented dune surfaces - are rare at a global level.
New research is challenging the hypothesis that men did the hunting in prehistoric societies.
Several theories have suggested either humans, climate change or both drove megafauna extinctions in Southeast Asia. Our newest work suggests otherwise.
While crocodylian fossil swim traces have been described from other continents, to the best of our knowledge the examples we describe are the first such reptilian swim traces from Africa.
The Earth may be entering an era in which natural and human-generated fire together are reshaping the planet.
These trackways preserve an incredibly brief moment in time. More importantly, they tell us about ancient climates, and how turtle breeding ranges have changed over the millenia
Trackways made by vertebrates during the Pleistocene era, dating back to between 36 000 and 140 000 years helps with research into ancient animals.
Top contributors
-
Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
-
Honorary Research Fellow, UCL
-
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
-
Professor of Geology, University of Colorado Denver
-
Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
-
Professor, Griffith University
-
Science Communication Officer, GENUS, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Postdoctoral Researcher in Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
-
Emeritus Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
-
Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry and Paleobiotechnology, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
