Newly analyzed jawbones from 380-million-year-old lungfish are shedding light on the feeding behaviors of our earliest ...

Paleontologist Darren Naish, creator of the Tetrapod Zoology blog, has written extensively about the evolution of pterosaurs and told Ars via e-mail that this new study is "exciting stuff." He ...

Tetrapod Limbs: If you want to see concrete evidence of evolution, look no further than your hand or your foot. Five fingers, five toes. There's nothing magical about the number, yet five digits ...

A stone slab barely half a meter wide is shaking the foundations of evolutionary science. Embedded in the slab’s fine sandstone are delicate imprints: long toes ending in sharp claws, left by an ...

In his blog Tetrapod Zoology, Darren Naish says captive babirusas "exhibit excitement and enthusiasm on greeting familiar people, engaging in tail wagging, head shaking and jumping and running about." ...

Lost species are those that have not been observed in the wild for over 10 years, despite searches to find them. Lost tetrapod species (four-limbed vertebrate animals including amphibians, birds ...

Writes Naish on Tetrapod Zoology:. There really isn’t any reason to think that big-brained dinosaurs would have evolved in the first place (recall that even ‘big-brained’ Troodon was, at ...

Over at Tetrapod Zoology, Darren Naish notes that there’s the outside possibility that the Rekhmire creature could be an extinct pygmy mammoth from the Greek isles instead of a dwarf or juvenile ...

E.D. Cope or O.C. Marsh – which Bone Wars icon do you prefer? The question pops up every now and then among paleontologists. (Tetrapod Zoology blogger Darren Naish asked just the other day over ...

Link: Tetrapod Zoology : How intelligent dinosaurs conquered the world. John's 1984 article describes his contemplation of a new psychiatric disorder he recognises in himself: evolutionary ...