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Showing posts with label Paleontology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paleontology. Show all posts
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Predatory dinosaurs such as T. rex sported lizard-like lips

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A juvenile Edmontosaurus disappears into the enormous, lipped mouth of Tyrannosaurus. Illustration Credit Dr Mark Witton A new study suggest...

“Exquisite” sabertooth skull offers clues about Ice Age predator

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Dave Easterla, left, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Biology at Northwest Missouri State University and Matthew Hill, associa...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Extinction of steam locomotives derails assumptions about biological evolution

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The Union Pacific Big Boy Steam Engine (one of the largest steam engines ever built and still functioning) visited Lawrence on Sept. 2, 2021...
Monday, March 27, 2023

Beaver Fossil Named After Buc-ee’s

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Matthew Brown (left) and Steve May with beaver skulls new and old in the vertebrate paleontology collections at the Jackson School of Geosci...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

New Fossil Analysis Reveals Dinosaur with Record-Holding 15-Meter-Long Neck

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 A rendering of the sauropod known as Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum, which had a 15-meter-long neck, about 10 feet longer than a typical scho...
Sunday, March 12, 2023

Why are mammals more likely to go extinct on islands than on the mainland?

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Illustration of Sardinian Dwarf Mammoth, Sardinian Giant Otter, Deer, Sardinian Dhole and Giant Pica  Illustration Credit: Peter Schouten Is...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Dinosaur claws used for digging and display

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Therizinosaurs claw hooking and pulling trees Image Credit: Shuyang Zhou for the 3D modelling and functional scenario restoration Dinosaur c...
Monday, February 13, 2023

Researchers solve a 150-year-old mystery

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A reconstruction - of the aetosaur assemblage in its habitat. Illustration Credits: © J. Kowalski (drawing) and P. Janecki (coloring) The Ae...
Wednesday, February 1, 2023

319-million-year-old fish preserves the earliest fossilized brain of a backboned animal

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  Video Credit: University of Michigan The CT-scanned skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, pulled from a coal mine in England mo...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

Fossils of Arctic primate relatives tell climate-adaptation story

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Artist's reconstruction of Ignacius dawsonae surviving six months of winter darkness in the extinct warm temperate ecosystem of Ellesmer...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Ancient chimaeras were suction feeders, not shell crushers, new research shows

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Iniopera reconstruction Resized Image using AI by SFLORG Photo Credit: Richard Dearden / University of BIrmingham A rare three-dimensional f...
Wednesday, January 4, 2023

‘Veggie’ dinosaurs differed in how they ate their food

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Some of the finite element models compared bite performance across the five ornithischian dinosaurs in the study, with different models show...
Monday, December 19, 2022

Fossil CSI: Mysterious site was ancient birthing grounds

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Adult and young of the ichthyosaur species Shonisaurus popularis chase ammonoid prey 230 million years ago, in what is now Berlin-Ichthyosau...
Friday, December 16, 2022

Scientists discover what was on the menu of the first dinosaurs

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Early dinosaurs and their diets. Lesothosaurus is an omnivore, Buriolestes is a carnivore and Thecodontosaurus is an herbivore Illustration ...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Fossil site reveals giant arthropods dominated the seas 470 million years ago

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Fossils from the Fezouata Shale. From left to right, a non-mineralized arthropod (Marrellomorpha), a palaeoscolecid worm and a trilobites. I...
Monday, December 12, 2022

True giant wombat gives Diprotodon podium a wobble

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Ramsayia reconstruction (r) next to a modern wombat. Illustration Credit: Eleanor Pease, CC BY-NC If you thought Australia was home to only ...
Friday, December 9, 2022

Smilodon's saber teeth

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Life-size reconstruction of three different species studied with their stress thermal maps at the three different angles for a right lower c...

Very fast, but not a supersonic

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The computer model of the dinosaur tail used and a diplodocide Image Credit: Simone Conti / Zachi Evenor An international research team with...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

Mammoth problem with extinction timeline

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Cameron Schwalbach, paleontology collections manager for the Cincinnati Museum Center’s Geier Collections and Research Center, and UC assist...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

A pair of lizard ‘kings’ from the old, old West

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This photograph shows two blocks containing the holotype of Microteras borealis. It consists of a portion of the snout (left) and the brainc...