Studying pterosaurs and other fossil flyers to better engineer manmade flight
Credit: Mark Witton Pterosaurs were the largest animals ever to fly. They soared the skies for 160 million years--much longer ...
Tag: Paleontology
Jan Esper receives ERC Advanced Grant to improve climate reconstructions from tree rings
EU funding for the collection of a new tree ring network covering the Northern Hemisphere and the development of tree ...
Coquà fossil from Puerto Rico takes title of oldest Caribbean frog
Credit: Alberto Lopez Torres GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The bright chirp of the coquà frog, the national symbol of Puerto Rico, ...
Tooth be told: Earless seals existed in ancient Australia
Credit: James Rule A fossilised seal tooth found on a Victorian beach could hold the key to uncovering the history ...
When three species of human ancestor walked the Earth
Credit: Angeline Leece. An international team, including Arizona State University researcher Gary Schwartz, have unearthed the earliest known skull of ...
Fourth new pterosaur discovery in matter of weeks
Credit: Megan Jacobs, Baylor University, Texas You wait ages for a pterosaur and then four come along at once. Hot ...
Study offers new insight into the impact of ancient migrations on the European landscape
Credit: Fernando Racimo Neolithic populations have long been credited with bringing about a revolution in farming practices across Europe. However, ...
Traces of ancient rainforest in Antarctica point to a warmer prehistoric world
Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/James McKay Researchers have found evidence of rainforests near the South Pole 90 million years ago, suggesting the climate ...
Water pressure: Ancient aquatic crocs evolved, enlarged to avoid freezing
Study pinpoints minimum survivable size of Jurassic crocodilesCredit: Steve Castillo / Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution / Scott Schrage ...
In Earth’s largest extinction, land animal die-offs began long before marine extinction
New dates for fossils indicate land animal turnover extended for hundreds of thousands of yearsCredit: Photo courtesy of John Geissman ...
Discovering the diet of the fossil Theropithecus oswaldi found in Cueva Victoria in Spain
The long journey of the African baboonCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA A study published in Journal of Human Evolution reveals for ...
International team discover new species of flying reptiles
Credit: Nizar Ibrahim, University of Detroit Mercy A community of flying reptiles that inhabited the Sahara 100 million years ago ...
New feathered dinosaur was one of the last surviving raptors
Credit: Sergey Krasovskiy A new feathered dinosaur that lived in New Mexico 67 million years ago is one of the ...
Small horses got smaller, big tapirs got bigger 47 million years ago
Researchers open a window onto ancient mammal evolution using fossils from GermanyCredit: Oliver Wings/MLU The former coalfield of Geiseltal in ...
Christmas Island discovery redraws map of life
Credit: The University of Queensland The world's animal distribution map will need to be redrawn and textbooks updated, after researchers ...
Study by international team of scientists investigates evolution during Cambrian Explosion
Credit: Deline, et. al. A new study by an international team of scientists has revealed the developmental and evolutionary mechanisms ...
Late cretaceous dinosaur-dominated ecosystem
New study published in GeologyCredit: Image credit: Danielle Dufault, Royal Ontario Museum. Boulder, Colo., USA: A topic of considerable interest ...
Beetles changed their diet during the Cretaceous period
International team under the leadership of the University of Bonn decodes 99 million-year-old amber fossilsCredit: © J.A. Peñas Like a ...
Mysterious ancient sea-worm pegged as new genus after half-century in ‘wastebasket’
Credit: Anna Whitaker, et al. LAWRENCE -- When a partial fossil specimen of a primordial marine worm was unearthed in ...
‘Little Foot’ skull reveals how this more than 3 million year old human ancestor lived
Micro-CT scanning of 'Little Foot' skull reveals new aspects of the life of this more than 3-million year-old-human ancestorCredit: Amélie ...
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