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Showing posts with label Paleontology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paleontology. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Dead fish breathe new life into the evolutionary origin of fins and limbs

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The holotype specimen of the fossil Tujiaaspis vividus from 436 million year old rocks of Hunan Province and Chongqing, China. Credit: Zhiku...
Monday, September 19, 2022

Fossil eggs show dinosaur decline before extinction

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Artist’s depiction of Late Cretaceous oviraptorosaurs, hadrosaurs, and tyrannosaurs living in central China Credit: IVPP  Nearly 66 million ...
Thursday, September 1, 2022

Scientists discover new ant species

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Three-dimensional image of the previously unknown extinct ant species. Illustration credit: Hammel/Lauströer An international team of scient...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

30-million-year-old amphibious beaver fossil is oldest ever found

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A comparison of anklebones from the giant beaver and the newly identified species, Microtheriomys articulaquaticus, at the same scale. Credi...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Study finds that ocean cooling over millennia led to larger fish

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Dahiana Arcila in Reykjavík, Iceland. Arcila is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award to study the evolutionary histor...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Scientists are relieved to discover ‘curious’ creature with no anus is not earliest human ancestor

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Left to right: Saccorhytus, Saccorhytus dorsal, Saccorhytus side-on. Credit: Philip Donoghue et al An international team of researchers have...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

Uncovering the Past: Researchers Create 3D Images of Fossils

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Aase mounts one of the fossils in the X-ray microscope for imaging. Credit: Idaho National Laboratory Idaho National Laboratory is perhaps b...

Nearly a hundred genes have been lost during the woolly mammoth’s evolution

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Tusk from woolly mammoth emerging from the permafrost on Wrangel Island. Photo Credit: Love Dalén/Stockholm University. A new study shows th...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

How dinos carried their enormous weight

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 3D paleoreconstruction of a sauropod dinosaur Credit: Dr. Andreas Jannel Scientists have cracked an enduring mystery, discovering how sauro...

New long-necked dinosaur helps rewrite evolutionary history of sauropods in South America

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Panoramic view of the Serranía del Perijá in Colombia, where a vertebra was found in 1943. The vertebra has allowed scientists to identify a...

Neutrons help track down Mammalian Ancestors

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Dr. Michael Schulz at the neutron radiography facility ANTARES. Image Credit: Bernhard Ludewig, FRM II / TUM Investigations at Research Neut...
Monday, August 1, 2022

New Mexico Mammoths Among Best Evidence for Early Humans in North America

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Close up of the bone pile during excavation. This random mix of ribs, broken cranial bones, a molar, bone fragments, and stone cobbles is a ...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

Ural Scientists Found Earliest Evidence of Hyenas Toxocariasis

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Image of a hyena coprolite taken with a microscope. In the center is a toxocara egg. Credit: Dmitry Gimranov Ural paleontologists, together ...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Underwater cave fossil site gains state protections

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A reconstruction of the South Australian cave site which has been heritage listed due to its abundance of megafauna fossils. Image by Peter ...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Wildfires May Have Sparked Ecosystem Collapse During Earth’s Worst Mass Extinction

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Credit: Victor O. Leshyk During the worst mass extinction event in Earth’s history, vast wetlands suffered increased wildfires, turning the ...
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...