A new species of carnivorous caterpillar calls a counterintuitive place home: a spider’s lair. The species, dubbed the “bone collector ... bits of fly wing and pieces of beetle wing and ...

A scientific name has yet to be determined for the species. How does such a small critter survive on an island teeming with giant threats? Bone collector ... silk to attach pieces onto their ...

“Fossils deposited in hot, dry and arid places, such as large parts of Australia, lose their collagen very early…. The major ...

A new ancient DNA study published in Nature Wednesday reports the first known person to have had parents of two different species ... whereby a small piece of the teenager’s bone was pulverised ...

That gap was all that separated them from the bones of a new species of ancient human ... only from the most measly of specimens, like small pieces of jaw or finger. “You’re always used ...

At first, the bones seemed to include only animals such as deer and pigs. But under closer inspection, one piece stood out ... defining a species from just 13 small bones and teeth is tricky.

Gabriel Díaz Yantén National Council for Scientific and Technical Research The new species also expands the evolutionary understanding of the group of titans, after a piece of bone from the ...

The remains of a member of the smallest ancient human species on ... were extremely small in body size. However, it is now apparent from the tiny proportions of this limb bone that the early ...