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Showing posts with label Paleontology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paleontology. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Shrimps and worms among first animals to recover after largest mass extinction

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Reconstructed sea bed scenes (A) Pre-extinction, (B-D) Induan (early Early Triassic), (E) Smithian, (F) Spathian Credit: Yaqi Jiang Research...

New Kangaroo Described from Papua New Guinea

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Artist's impression of Nombe Rockshelter Megafauna, showing the Nombe kangaroo on the Right. Image resized using AI by SFLORG  Credit: A...
Monday, June 27, 2022

Fossils in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’ may be more than a million years older than previously thought

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Darryl Granger of Purdue University developed the technology that updated the age of an Australopithecus found in Sterkfontein Cave. New dat...
Monday, June 20, 2022

Triassic revolution: animals grew back faster and smarter after mass extinction

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The diversification of the saurichthyiform fishes (‘lizard fish’) in the Middle Triassic of South China (eastern paleo-Tethys), reflecting t...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

Researchers discover long-extinct giant dwarf crocodile species

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Researchers led by the University of Iowa have discovered two new species of crocodiles that roamed parts of Africa between 18 million and 1...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Pioneering study shows climate played crucial role in changing location of ancient coral reefs

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Pre-historic coral reefs dating back up to 250 million years extended much further away from the Earth’s equator than today, new research ha...
Monday, June 13, 2022

Mastodon tusk chemical analysis reveals first evidence of one extinct animal’s annual migration

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A mounted skeleton of the Buesching mastodon, based on casts of individual bones produced in fiberglass, on public display at the University...
Thursday, June 9, 2022

Europe’s Largest Land Predator Unearthed

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Illustration of White Rock spinosaurid. Credit: Anthony Hutchings  Research involving paleontologists from the Universities of Portsmouth an...
Monday, June 6, 2022

Paleontologists Discovered Teeth and Bones of Ancient Animals in the Urals

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Credit: Ural Federal University Paleontologists from the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of ...
Friday, June 3, 2022

How plesiosaurs swam under water

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Anna Krahl (front) and Ulrich Witzel used a model made of bone copies and material from the hardware store to reconstruct the muscles. This ...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Great white sharks may have contributed to megalodon extinction

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Tooth size comparison between the extinct Early Pliocene Otodus megalodon tooth and a modern great white shark.  Credit: MPI for Evolutionar...

Palms at the Poles: Fossil Plants Reveal Lush Southern Hemisphere Forests in Ancient Hothouse Climate

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For decades, paleobotanist David Greenwood has collected fossil plants from Australia – some so well preserved it’s hard to believe they’re ...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Taking dinosaurs’ temperature with a new biomarker

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Allosaurus bone extracellular matrix: microscopic view of bone soft tissues of one of the dinosaur specimens (Allosaurus) that were investig...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

Discovery of 'ghost' fossils reveals plankton resilience to past global warming events

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Ghost nannofossils (left) with virtual casts (right). The fossils are approximately 5 µm in length, 15 times narrower than the width of a hu...

Paleontologists Found the Jaws of an Extremely Rare Bear in Tavrida

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The bones of an Etruscan bear in the cave were discovered by Dmitry Gimranov and Aleksandr Lavrov.  Photo: Anastasia Mavrenkova Ural paleont...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

Tooth unlocks mystery of Denisovans in Asia

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Views of the TNH2-1 specimen Credit: Flinders University What links a finger bone and some fossil teeth found in a cave in the remote Altai ...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Fossils reveal tropically hot North America 95 million years ago

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Cretaceous oysters of the genus Pycnodonte investigated in the new study. These specimens were collected in San Miguel County, Colorado (top...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Large bodies helped extinct marine reptiles with long necks swim, study finds

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3D models of aquatic tetrapods Credit: S. Gutarra Díaz Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered that body size is more import...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Dense Bones Allowed Spinosaurus to Hunt Underwater

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Dense bones in the skeleton of Spinosaurus strongly suggest it spent a substantial amount of time submerged in the water. Artwork credit: Da...

Scientists discover when beetles became prolific

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 Credit: Vladimka production Researchers at the University of Bristol have found that beetles first roamed the world in the Carboniferous an...