Tag: Paleontology

Credit: Crystal Shin Hibernation is a familiar feature on Earth today. Many animals -- especially those that live close to ...

Credit: John Sibbick The first complete dinosaur skeleton ever identified has finally been studied in detail and found its place ...

Researchers use fossilized teeth to reveal dietary shifts in ancient herbivores and homininsCredit: Zeresenay Alemseged A new study published this ...

Research results presented by paleontologists of Mainz University allow for more accurate conclusions on the nutrition and habitats of extinct ...

Scientists identified a new ichnospecies from the shell of an extinct marine turtle fossil, the first known species coexisting on ...

Revival of research at significant paleontological site in Eastern Europe includes focus on when humans migrated to Eurasia from AfricaCredit: ...

Even Tyrannosaurus rex could have suffered a slipped discCredit: (c) Tanja Wintrich/Uni Bonn The intervertebral discs connect the vertebrae and ...

Credit: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech Reduced resilience of plant biomes in North America could be setting the stage for the ...

New fossil species belongs to a group of extant starfish-like creatures living in the deep sea todayCredit: Dr Ben Thuy ...

Trabecular structure different than mammals, birdsCredit: SMU DALLAS (SMU) - Weighing up to 8,000 pounds, hadrosaurs, or duck-billed dinosaurs were ...

Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA -- An LSU Health New Orleans radiologist and evolutionary anatomist have teamed ...

Credit: Xiaoya Ma If you could dive down to the ocean floor nearly 540 million years ago just past the ...

Updated evolutionary tree and biomechanical estimates of feathered dinosaurs and early birds show powered flight may have evolved in these ...

Findings help dispel the view that Australia's first peoples were 'only hunter gatherers'Credit: ANU Archaeologists at The Australian National University ...

Credit: Adam Cossette A new study, revisiting fossil specimens from the enormous crocodylian, Deinosuchus, has confirmed that the beast had ...

New group with possible symbiotic life strategyCredit: Anja Spang In a publication in Nature Communications last Friday, NIOZ scientists Nina ...

How microbes in the primordial atmosphere obtained energy without oxygenCredit: Uwe Dettmar for Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany In the first ...

Credit: Emma Finley-Jacob Its neck was three times as long as its torso, but had only 13 extremely elongated vertebrae: ...

In a 99-million-year-old preserved amber fossil, researchers get a detailed glimpse into how 'Hell Ants' hunted with scythe-like mandibles and ...

Credit: Tetsuto Miyashita Ottawa, August 5, 2020 - Zebrafish are a common aquarium species, of value to hobbyists and scientists ...