Tag: Evolutionary Biology
Strange sea-dwelling reptile fossil hints at rapid evolution after mass extinction
This is Sclerocormus parviceps, the newly described marine reptile. Credit: Copyright Da-yong Jiang
Two hundred and fifty million years ago, life on earth was in...
240-million-year-old fossils indicate how dinosaurs grew from hatchlings to adults
In this artist's rendering of the Asilisaurus kongwe, the animal is shown as it would walk and move about. The stripes are artistic license,...
Computer scientists find mass extinctions can accelerate evolution
At the start of the simulation, a biped robot controlled by a computationally evolved brain stands upright on a 16 meter by 16 meter...