Paleontology

In the February 25 Issue:

::	Paleontology

Top Stories | February 12

Early animals dethroned
Cell division patterns in controversial Chinese fossils place them outside the animal kingdom.
Swedish Museum of Natural History
FOR KIDS: Dino teeth tell a traveling tale
Dental evidence from sauropods suggests the mighty beasts migrated for food
DNA suggests North American mammoth species interbred
Supposedly separate types may really have been one.
Tooth stranger than fiction
A mammal fossil unearthed in South America resembles ‘Ice Age’ saber-toothed squirrel.
Oxygen blew up ancient amoebas
Single-celled creatures' size spiked as oxygen levels rose.

:: More in Paleontology

Single-celled creatures' size spiked as oxygen levels rose.

Body temperature of long-gone beasts resembled that of mammals, study of fossil teeth suggests.

Fossils reveal a non-hopping giant rabbit that lived on the island of Minorca 5 million years ago.

Titanoceratops may be the oldest known member of the triceratops group.

Pint-sized, two-legged runner from Argentina dates back to the dawn of the dinos, 230 million years ago.

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