Cracking the secrets of dinosaur eggshells
Credit: Adapted from ACS Omega 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c03334 Since the famous discovery of dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert in ...
Tag: Paleontology
Antarctica yields oldest fossils of giant birds with 21-foot wingspans
Two fossils from a group of extinct seabirds represent the largest individuals ever foundCredit: Copyright Brian Choo Fossils recovered from ...
Large tides may have driven evolution of fish towards life on land
Credit: Mattias Green/Bangor University Big tidal ranges some 400 million years ago may have initiated the evolution of bony fish ...
Modern computational tools may open a new era for fossil pollen research
Credit: Doug Peterson One of the best sources of information on the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems and plant diversity over ...
Seabird response to abrupt climate change 5,000 years ago transformed Falklands ecosystems
Credit: Photo by Dulcinea Groff Orono, Maine -- The Falkland Islands are a South Atlantic refuge for some of the ...
Bat-winged dinosaurs that could glide
The origin of bird flight launched from a more complex evolutionary race than previously thoughtCredit: Image credit: Gabriel Ugueto. Despite ...
African crocodiles lived in Spain six million years ago
Credit: José Antonio Peñas (SINC) Millions of years ago, several species of crocodiles of different genera and characteristics inhabited Europe ...
TU Graz researchers discover new sediment archive for historical climate research
Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz How has the climate changed in the course of the earth's history? Which climatic ...
Understanding the Triassic mass-extinction event 200 million years ago — NSF grant
Credit: Virginia Tech Scientists don't yet know what caused the Triassic mass-extinction event -- one of the largest extinction events ...
How a greenhouse catastrophe killed nearly all life
Scientists show the unfolding of one of the largest mass extinctions in Earth's historyCredit: (PaleoFactory, Sapienza University of Rome) for ...
World’s greatest mass extinction triggered switch to warm-bloodedness
Credit: Credit: Mike Benton, University of Bristol. Animal images are by Nobu Tamura, Wikimedia. Mammals and birds today are warm-blooded, ...
Beak bone reveals pterosaur like no other
Credit: Megan Jacobs, University of Portsmouth A new species of small pterosaur - similar in size to a turkey - ...
A tiny jaw from Greenland sheds light on the origin of complex teeth
Credit: Marta Szubert A team of scientists led from Uppsala University have described the earliest known example of dentary bone ...
Ancient tiny teeth reveal first mammals lived more like reptiles
Credit: Graphics: Nuria Melisa Morales Garcia. Morganucodon based on Bob Nicholls/ Palaeocreations 2018 model Pioneering analysis of 200 million-year-old teeth ...
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