Ape and human cast

Fossils>> Dinosaur • The UK/South Africa

‘Molecular data and fossils are the gold standard for research on the tiger’s origins’

Down To Earth speaks to Samrat Mondol, associate professor at the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, to know more about the origins of the tiger

Most humans haven’t evolved to cope with the cold, yet we dominate northern climates — here’s why

Sites from settlements such as Boxgrove in West Sussex offer clues about how ancient hominins survived northern climates

Jurassic age cleaners

125 million-year-old fossil suggests cockroaches ate dinosaur dung

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Days of the dino

A priest-scientist to artists, dinosaurs have had their popularizers  

'Preserving plant fossil is as important as protecting cultural heritage'

Palaeobotany, often dubbed as a soft science, is the branch of palaeontology that deals with the recovery and identification of plant remains …

It is time ASI stood up to demands of protecting relics

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Interview with Diganta Narzary

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Foes forever

Battle lines between the insects and flowers date back to nearly 100 million years

Retrieving the past

Parental instincts

Gradual extinction

Stoned immaculate

Bacteria that can turn creatures into stone do exist

Dinomites were here

In India, modern development puts prehistoric sites at risk

Much of the land holding the country’s buried past is being rapidly transformed for modern development — agriculture, roads, …

Tryst with the Triassic

The Triassic has been brought into sharper focus, thanks to fossilised evidence found in the US

Resin truths

Amber, a dehydrated tree resin, can literally capture scenes from the animal and plant world's past. A large volume of the resin, procured from …

A relic from the past

Hanging around

Bats. did they evolvefrom four-legged, flightless creatures?

The southern connection

Building up of ice sheets in the far north might be due to strong currents in the South Atlantic

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