While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size of a small car is trundling…
Browsing: fossils
When a Virgin Galactic commercial flight soared into space on 8 September 2023, there were two Virgin Galactic pilots, an…
South Africa is famous for its amazingly rich and diverse fossil record. The country’s rocks document more than 3.5 billion years…
The timing and intensity of the seasons shapes life all around us, including tool use by birds, the evolutionary diversification of giraffes, and the behaviour of…
Paleontology is undergoing a new renaissance. Since the mid-20th century, genomics has become the main focus of evolutionary biology. But…