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Showing posts with label Paleontology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paleontology. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Paleontologists Discovered Unique Remains of Paleogene Reptiles in the Urals

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Rare remains have been found in the Sverdlovsk and Kurgan Regions Photo Credit: Courtesy of Ural Federal University At the river Miass (Kurg...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

First side-necked turtle ever discovered in UK

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The fossil was found on a National Trust beach on the Isle of Wight Photo Credit: Courtesy of University of Portsmouth The first side-necked...

Dynamic plants: Origin and geographic evolution of cycads clarified

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The African cycad Encephalartos altensteinii Lehm is widely cultivated in botanical gardens around Europe (like this one in the Botanical Ga...
Friday, June 9, 2023

Ancient herbivore’s diet weakened teeth leading to eventual starvation

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Reconstruction of the rhynchosaur Bentonyx from the Middle Triassic of Devon, about 245 million years ago. Illustration Credit: Reconstructi...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

New Dino, ‘Iani,’ Was Face of a Changing Planet

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Illustration Credit: Jorge Gonzalez ( CC BY-NC 4.0 ) A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species’ “last gasp” during a ...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

Fossil of mosasaur with bizarre “screwdriver teeth” found in Morocco

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The strange ridges on the teeth indicate a specialised feeding strategy, however its diet remains a mystery. Photo Credit: Dr Nick Longrich ...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Giants of the Jurassic seas were twice the size of a killer whale

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An artist’s impression of the pliosaur Illustration Credit: Megan Jacobs, University of Portsmouth Over 20 years ago, the BBC’s "Walkin...
Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Earth’s first animals had particular taste in real estate

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Obamus coronatus. Photo Credit: Mary Droser/University of California, Riverside Even without body parts that allowed for movement, new resea...
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Fossil find in California shakes up the natural history of cycad plants

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Three-dimensional reconstruction of the whole cone and different views of the same cone scale. Scale bar: cone = 400 microns; cone scales = ...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Swimming secrets of prehistoric reptiles unlocked by new study

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Paleobiologist Dr Susana Gutarra taking measurements from a very complete specimen of Liopleurodon, a plesiosaur from the Middle-Late Jurass...
Monday, April 17, 2023

New details of Tully monster revealed

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The Tully monster. Discovered in the 1950s and first described in a paper in 1966, the Tully monster, with its stalked eyes and long probosc...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Apes may have evolved upright stature for leaves, not fruit, in open woodland habitats

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Artistic rendering of the open woodland habitat reconstruction at Moroto II with Morotopithecus bishopi vertically climbing with infant on b...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Small and simple key to evolution success of mammals

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Artistic reconstruction of early mammal ancestors (species: Hadrocodium wui) shown hunting insect prey, illustrating how the adoption of an ...

95-million-year-old sauropod dinosaur skull first of its kind in Australia

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Diamantinasaurus matildae head. Illustration Credit: Elena Marian/ Australian Age of Dinosaurs Musuem of Natural History A Curtin University...
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...