Neil Shubin on Trusted Science in a βDeeply Partisan Ageβ
An eminent fossil hunter takes the reins at the National Academy of Sciences in a turbulent moment for American researchers.
A newly discovered crocodile relative from the Triassic had a beak, tiny arms, and walked on two legs, making it look more like an ostrich-like dinosaur than a crocodile. During the Triassic Period, the ancestors of many modern animal groups were branching into an astonishing variety of shapes and lifestyles. Evolution was experimenting with body [...]









A newly identified prehistoric crocodile relative, Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa, was discovered alongside another croc species in New Mexico fossils dating back 210 million years. Around 210 million years ago, two crocodile relatives about the size of modern jackals stood together along a humid riverbank in what is now northern New Mexico. One of them, Hesperosuchus agilis, [...]
Field notebooks from the late Richard KΓΆhler allowed researchers to finally catalog a remarkable fossil tarpon from Aotearoa New Zealand. Recently disclosed notebooks from a late paleontologist supplied the missing details researchers needed to complete their study of a βremarkableβ fossil found nearly 30 years ago. Dr. Richard KΓΆhler discovered the fossil fish in 1999 [...]