Tag: Paleontology

MU scientists created one of the first 3D models showing how ligaments and joints in the skull of a Tyrannosaurus ...

Rauisuchians fed on vegetarian dinosaurs according to Wits studentCredit: Viktor Radermacher, owns copyright "These ancient fossils provide us with evidence ...

Research published in Science explains the effect of human-influenced mass extinction of giant carnivores and herbivores from North America.Credit: University ...

Squat lobsters have a colorful history going back to the dinosaur era -- a peak of diversityCredit: Cristina Robins & ...

New study of an ape-like pelvis suggests human ancestors might not have been built like modern African apesCredit: Illustration courtesy ...

Extinct palorchestid marsupials likely filled a niche no longer occupied in modern AustraliaCredit: Hazel Richards (2019) Palorchestid marsupials, an extinct ...

Cichlids (Cichlidae) are a group of small to medium-sized fish that are ubiquitous in freshwater habitats in the tropics. They ...

Credit: Mike Meyer GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Researchers picking through the contents of fossil clams from a Sarasota County quarry found ...

South Africa's greatest fossil discoveries in modern times to be showcased for the first time at the Perot Museum in ...

A collaborative research project carried out under the auspices of the GeoBio-Center at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich has developed an ...

Credit: Jose Garcia and Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Southern Cross University. New research brings to light for the first time the evolution ...

Research team discovered Nanopithecus browni near Kanapoi, Kenya, far from the habitat of other guenonsCredit: Carol Ward Researchers from the ...

With fossils from more than 80 individual dinosaurs, Auroraceratops rugosus, an early horned dinosaur, is one of the best represented ...

UTA biologist receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and EngineersCredit: The University of Texas at Arlington Matthew Walsh, an ...

Peptides, one of the fundamental building blocks of life, can be formed from the primitive precursors of amino acids under ...

Hox gene is only part of what determines evolution of limbs, vertebrae in animalsCredit: Eden Wellesley McQueen The role of ...

New AMNH paper provides first reconstructions of some extinct species and a computer-aided map of the seawayCredit: © Carl Buell ...

Credit: Kranoti et al, 2019 New analysis of the fossilized skull of an Upper Paleolithic man suggests that he died ...

Credit: University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences The National Science Foundation has awarded a CAREER grant to ...

Credit: University of Plymouth The ocean as we understand it today was shaped by a global evolutionary regime shift around ...