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Showing posts with label Paleontology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paleontology. Show all posts
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...
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...