Researchers have made an exciting discovery: The oldest known mosquito fossils, dating back to the Early Cretaceous period, around 130 million years ago.
Tag: anatomy
Monkeys may have evolved upright stature in forested habitat for leaf, not fruit
We thought that apes developed an upright stature trunk to gather fruit in the forests, but it may have been to reach the leaves.
A woman’s oldest riding saddle found in northwest China
The study shows how the oldest directly dated riding saddle was designed to make horse and rider feel comfortable.
The oldest known piece of anatomy of our species in Europe
An ancient jawbone previously thought to belong to a Neanderthal may force a rethinking of modern human history in Europe.
Genes show how the evolution of our pelvis for upright walking
The pelvis bone is the largest type of bone in the skeleton. It is an oval-shaped body region located between the hip bones and protecting the abdominal organs. Additionally genes, embryonic tissue samples reveal when the pelvis begins to form during pregnancy.
The world’s earliest known belly button was found on an early-cretaceous dinosaur
Many of our questions about how they lived and what they were like would be answered if we lived in a world where tourists could travel to a remote island resort and see living dinosaurs — or run for from them, as in Jurassic World. Unfortunately, we must rely on information gleaned from fossil remains preserved in rock tens of millions of years ago.