Arabian Fossil Reveals Earliest Known Relative of Ancient Giant Civet Lineage
Paleontologists in Abu Dhabi have discovered a seven-million-year-old viverrid jaw that documents intercontinental carnivoran dispersal between Asia and Africa.
Tag: Paleontology
Ancient Puppet Beetle Discovered in Early Eocene Amber from French Deposit
Paleontologists have described the first fossil puppet beetle species from the lowermost Eocene Oise amber of France, establishing an earlier ...
Thailand fossils reveal early, widespread rodent gigantism
Fossils of a giant rodent discovered in Thailand suggest large rodents evolved earlier and more widely than previously thought.
Fossil Hindlimb Reveals Mosaic Evolution in an Early Sabre-Toothed Cat
A functional analysis of fossil hindlimbs from Spain reveals that the primitive sabre-toothed felid Promegantereon ogygia retained ancestral locomotor traits ...
Extinct Softshell Turtle Species Named From North Dakota’s Oligocene Badlands
A nearly complete skull and three shells from North Dakota's Oligocene Brule Formation document Rafetus lysoni, the first valid softshell ...
Fossil Reveals Final Step in Mammals’ Middle Ear Detachment from Jaw
New micro-CT evidence from the Early Cretaceous eutherian Cokotherium reveals a vestigial ossified Meckelian cartilage likely disconnected from the middle ...
Rare Fossil Mouthparts Reveal Feeding Secrets of Ordovician Sea Predators
Two nearly complete fossil mouthparts from Morocco's Fezouata Shale are identified as hurdiid radiodont oral cones and reveal possible reinforced ...
New dinosaur species Infernogallus jamesi identified as first known fruit-eater
A newly identified Hell Creek oviraptorosaur, Infernogallus jamesi, shows chewing adaptations seen today only in fruit-eating parrots, making it the ...
Crustacean in Golden Amber Reveals First Cretaceous Tanaidacean Outside Europe
A newly described crustacean, Tanaidaurum kachinensis, preserved in 100-million-year-old Kachin amber from Myanmar is the first Cretaceous tanaidacean recorded outside ...
Cretaceous amber reveals a new genus of aquatic lacewing from Myanmar
A new genus and species of Nevrorthidae has been described from a single female preserved in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber, only ...
Oldest North American orthostern scorpion from the Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian: Bashkirian) Pottsville Formation of Alabama, USA
A groundbreaking discovery from the Pennsylvanian Pottsville Formation in Alabama, USA, has yielded the oldest known North American orthostern scorpion, ...
Amber-preserved lizard tail reveals 99-million-year-old defense mechanism
A lizard tail preserved in 99-million-year-old amber from northern Myanmar provides the best-preserved direct fossil evidence of voluntary tail-shedding, a ...
CT scan finds spider-tailed viper’s bird-luring tail has typical vertebrae
A computed tomography study of one preserved spider-tailed horned viper found that the vertebrae supporting its bird-luring tail tip are ...
Coprolite study reveals extinct bird feathers linked to extinction survival
A peer-reviewed analysis of a 66-million-year-old dinosaur coprolite identified the first known hesperornithiform feathers and proposed that their primitive body ...
New spiny ostracod species documented in two ancient lakes in southwestern China
A taxonomic study describes Limnocythere curvispinosa sp. nov. from living specimens in Fuxian Lake and Holocene fossil valves in Yangzong ...
Two Cretaceous amber lacewings expand evidence of babinskaiid reproductive and leg diversity
A fossil study describing two new Kachin amber lacewings expands the known Babinskaiidae record to 24 species and documents varied ...
Tiny Stag Beetles Trapped in 99-Million-Year-Old Amber Rewrite the Insect’s Family History
Four newly described stag beetle fossils from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber in northern Myanmar include three species measuring under three millimeters, ...
Cretaceous Amber Reveals First Fossil of the Sucking Millipede Family Siphonorhinidae
A 98-million-year-old millipede preserved in Myanmar amber has been identified as the first fossil member of the rare sucking millipede ...
Two new pygmy mole cricket relatives from 99-million-year-old amber reveal evolution caught in the act
Two new genera and species of Tridactyloidea from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber include one new ripipterygid and one puzzling fossil with ...
Sturgeon experiments reveal early land vertebrates had stiff, immobile necks
A new Nature study using sturgeon backbones as material analogues shows that the first land vertebrates had far stiffer, less ...
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