Planktonic sea snails and slugs may be more adaptable to ocean acidification than expected
An evolutionary study finds that pteropods, or "wing-footed" sea snails and slugs, have faced acidified oceans in the past - ...
Tag: Paleontology
New study reveals how reptiles divided up the spoils in ancient seas
Credit: Tom Stubbs, University of Bristol While dinosaurs ruled the land in the Mesozoic, the oceans were filled by predators ...
“Immortal” in tree resin
An international team led by researchers at the University of Bonn extracted DNA from resin-embedded insectsCredit: Georg Oleschinski / Universität ...
The ancient Neanderthal hand in severe COVID-19
Credit: Professor Svante Pääbo and Professor Hugo Zeberg. This figure appeared in the publication in Nature. Since first appearing in ...
Ancient Adélie penguin colony revealed by snowmelt at Cape Irizar, Ross Sea, Antarctica
New study published in GeologyCredit: Photo courtesy Steven Emslie. Researcher Steven Emslie encountered a puzzle at Cape Irizar, a rocky ...
Naked prehistoric monsters! Evidence that prehistoric flying reptiles probably had
The debate about when dinosaurs developed feathers has taken a new turn with a paper refuting earlier claims that feathers ...
Sentinels of ocean acidification impacts survived Earth’s last mass extinction
Credit: Katja Peijnenburg, Erica Goetze, Deborah Wall-Palmer, Lisette Mekkes. Two groups of tiny, delicate marine organisms, sea butterflies and sea ...
Family care? Healed injuries suggest social behavior in ancestral wolves
New specimens from Ice Age of China provide clues to origin of pack-hunting in modern wolvesCredit: Mairin Balisi Wolves today ...
New study to uncover how climate change and tectonics drove evolution in East Africa
First-of-its-kind international study is rooted in 17 million year-old whale fossilCredit: Isaiah Nengo STONY BROOK, NY, (Under Embargo until September ...
Jaws of death: USU Eastern paleontologist renames giant, prehistoric marine lizard
Prehistoric Museum curator Joshua Lively describes a new genus of mosasaur that roamed the oceansCredit: BYU PRICE, UTAH, USA - ...
Dino teeth research prove giant predatory dinosaur lived in water
Portsmouth Palaeontologists establish Spinosaurus was a real life 'river monster'Credit: Davide Bonadonna A discovery of more than a thousand dinosaur ...
Computational study of famous fossil reveals evolution of locomotion in ‘ruling reptiles’
New modelling of ancient fossil movement reveals important step in the evolution of posture in the ancestors of dinosaurs and ...
How a giant short-faced bear reached the California Channel Islands
Credit: Excerpted from Figure 2, from: Mychajliw et al. 2020. Biogeographic problem-solving reveals the Late Pleistocene translocation of a short-faced ...
Coming up for air: Extinct sea scorpions could breathe out of water, fossil detective unveils
Credit: James Lamsdell Scientists have long debated the respiratory workings of sea scorpions, but a new discovery by a West ...