Painting of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) during the early temperate period of the Eemian interglacial, ...
Turtles that crushed hard-shelled prey like clams and snails were reported to be more than five times more likely to survive ...
Neanderthals hunted European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) in Central Europe, though probably not for food. The careful ...
The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on ...
Turtles with shell-cracking jaws were far more likely to survive extinction due to their ability to be sustained on a restricted diet.
Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice cores—are now being repurposed to help us better understand the lives of modern ...