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Study of past biological crises is now a timely topic because we may be in the midst of an anthropogenic mass extinction event. A skyline Fossilized Birth-Death (FBD) analysis of a dataset of 21 ...

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In most popular science books and biology textbooks, you can find the claim that mammals—including us humans—descended from reptiles. This misconception has even taken root in the minds of the most ...

A composite picture shows the rock art painting of an ancient Dicynodont, alongside a fossil of the species and an artist impression of the rock art. Credit: Wits University San rock paintings in ...

Mammals are only the living representatives of an incredibly diverse group known as Synapsida whose history goes back over 310 million years. Given the depth of this evolutionary history, it is ...

Painting of the dicynodont made by the San in the early 1800s. Credit: Julien Benoit, CC-BY 4.0 The research compares an 1800s painting of a tusked animal by the San people to local fossils. According ...