Paleontology

Rockies fossils yield 8 new species

3 Sep 2010

A surprise fossil field at a glacier in B.C.'s Kootenay National Park contains at least eight new species that lived 505 million years ago.

Earth's animals face grim future

2 Sep 2010

Corals, big mammals and many tropical species could all go extinct in the not too distant future, predict scientists who are attempting to forecast the fate of today's animals by studying what happened to those in the distant past. Mammal - Animal - Extinction - Earth - Paleontology

The Subway Map of Science [Infographics]

2 Sep 2010

# infographics Interconnecting natural philosophy, theoretical physics and quantum mechanics, astronomy and cosmology, natural history, geology and paleontology, genetics, chemistry, microbiology, neurology, medicine, and even the closed Chemistry line, this map of the subway is a fascinating summary of human sciences. More »