New Path of Exile league is Trial of the Ancestors
ExileCon isn’t all about Path of Exile 2. In fact, the new league for the first game has been revealed as Path of Exile: Trial of the Ancestors, and it will launch on August 18. The…
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Fossils reveal how ancient birds molted their feathers — which could help explain why…
Every bird you've ever seen -- every robin, every pigeon, every penguin at the zoo -- is a living dinosaur. Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid-induced mass…
Humans’ ancestors survived the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs
A Cretaceous origin for placental mammals, the group that includes humans, dogs and bats, has been revealed by in-depth analysis of the fossil record, showing they co-existed with dinosaurs…
Like ancient mariners, ancestors of Prochlorococcus microbes rode out to sea on exoskeleton…
Throughout the ocean, billions upon billions of plant-like microbes make up an invisible floating forest. As they drift, the tiny organisms use sunlight to suck up carbon dioxide from the…
Scientists develop new index based on functional morphology to understand how ancestors of modern…
Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have developed an index to estimate how a bird uses its wings for flight or other locomotion by measuring the strength of the coracoid bone and the…
World’s oldest meal helps unravel mystery of our earliest animal ancestors
The contents of the last meal consumed by the earliest animals known to inhabit Earth more than 550 million years ago has unearthed new clues about the physiology of our earliest animal…
The size of mammal ancestors’ ear canals reveal when warm-bloodedness evolved: Higher body…
Warm-bloodedness is a key mammal trait, but it's been a mystery when our ancestors evolved it. A new study in Nature points to an unlikely source for telling a fossil animal's body…
Previously hidden protoclusters could reveal new details of galaxy evolution: The ancestors of some…
The ancestors of some of the largest galaxy clusters have been hiding in plain sight. New work led by Carnegie's Andrew Newman demonstrates a new technique for identifying the precursors of…
Monkeys routinely consume fruit containing alcohol, shedding light on our own taste for booze: Study…
For 25 years, UC Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley has been intrigued by humans' love of alcohol. In 2014, he wrote a book proposing that our attraction to booze arose millions of years ago,…
Ancient ancestors evolved to be strong and snappy
Researchers led by the University of Bristol show that the earliest jaws in the fossil record were caught in a trade-off between maximising their strength and their speed.
Almost all…