Paleontologists agree that it's difficult to observe behavior in fossil specimens that are dead – even extinct – and petrified. One method is to find a modern, living, species that has some ...

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What are the causes of such diverse behaviors among living organisms? How do we study behavior? Research in animal behavior informs ecology and evolution and offers solutions for problems in ...

Digging up preserved specimens of Earth’s earliest life gives us a portal to the past — and now, that portal is offering us a voyeuristic peek at the oldest example of animal behavior we yet know of: ...

A video of a modern shellfish by paleontologists suggests a way to test theories about the behavior of fossilized specimens. Paleontologists agree that it's difficult to observe behavior in fossil ...