Tag: Paleontology

Credit: Jorge Gonzalez A newly discovered, diminutive - by T. rex standards - relative of the tyrant king of dinosaurs ...

WASHINGTON -- Total human carbon dioxide emissions could match those of Earth's last major greenhouse warming event in fewer than ...

Credit: Gareth Dyke An international team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Southampton, has shown that fossilised eggshells ...

200-year-old mystery surrounding iconic Australian bird A team of Australian scientists has completed research that could help solve a 200-year-old ...

Prehistoric beast not killed off by a supernovaCredit: Robert Boessenecker Megalodon--a giant predatory shark that has inspired numerous documentaries, books ...

Credit: Paul Selden LAWRENCE -- Usually, soft-bodied species like spiders aren't fossilized in rock like animals with bones and teeth. ...

Fossils dating back 2.1 billion years provide first ever evidence of movement in multicellular organisms Ancient fossils of the first ...

Scientists use stable sulfur isotopes to understand ancient microbial metabolismCredit: Photo credit: Guy Perkins and Mark Ellisman, National Center for ...

Credit: Professor Wörheide Comparative genome content analyses provide insight into the early evolution of animals. A novel method that permits ...

Bottom Line: This research letter documents bone cancer in a 240-million-year-old stem-turtle from the Triassic period, helping to provide more data ...

Credit: Tom Marchitto Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) program that can automatically provide species-level identification of microscopic marine ...

Approximately 500 million years ago, the evolution of a mineralised vertebrate skeleton had a knock-on effect, causing many new species ...

Long before human ancestors began hunting large mammals for meat, a fatty diet provided them with the nutrition to develop ...

HKU imaging technology shows first discovered fossil feather did not belong to iconic bird ArchaeopteryxCredit: @The University of Hong Kong ...

Shows how life at the South Pole bounced back after mass extinctionCredit: Adrienne Stroup/Field Museum Antarctica wasn't always a frozen ...

Credit: Opencage/Wikimedia and Anna Weiss/ The University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences. Climate change is bad news for coral ...

Credit: Christopher Fielding Little life could endure the Earth-spanning cataclysm known as the Great Dying, but plants may have suffered ...

Credit: Martin Qvarnström Coprolites, or fossil droppings, of the dinosaur-like archosaur Smok wawelski contain lots of chewed-up bone fragments. This ...

Scientists at the University of Bonn investigated the tracks of sauropods. New findings on locomotionCredit: © The Society of Vertebrate ...

New study says modern-day crocodiles and alligators came from variety of surroundings A new study throws into question the notion ...