Paleontology

Mexico’s ‘evolutionary waiting room’ shaped the great mammal migration between the Americas

Researchers have shown that Mexico played an important role in the diversification of North American mammal species. This may explain why northern mammals were more successful migrants than their...

Paranthropus harbours ‘unexpectedly high diversity

Tooth of Paranthropus robustus from Swartkrans, 1.8 million years old. Photo: Didier Descouens/Wikimedia Analyses of dental enamel proteins from fossils of the early hominin Paranthropus robustus point to an unexpectedly...

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