Giant 'megalodon' shark extinct earlier than previously thought
Prehistoric beast not killed off by a supernovaCredit: Robert Boessenecker Megalodon--a giant predatory shark that has inspired numerous documentaries, books ...
Tag: Paleontology
Ancient spider fossils, surprisingly preserved in rock, reveal reflective eyes
Credit: Paul Selden LAWRENCE -- Usually, soft-bodied species like spiders aren't fossilized in rock like animals with bones and teeth. ...
Scientists discover oldest evidence of mobility on Earth
Fossils dating back 2.1 billion years provide first ever evidence of movement in multicellular organisms Ancient fossils of the first ...
ELSI research suggests life thrived on Earth 3.5 billion years ago
Scientists use stable sulfur isotopes to understand ancient microbial metabolismCredit: Photo credit: Guy Perkins and Mark Ellisman, National Center for ...
Evolution: Larger datasets unravel deep roots
Credit: Professor Wörheide Comparative genome content analyses provide insight into the early evolution of animals. A novel method that permits ...
Case study documents bone cancer in 240-million-year-old stem-turtle
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 ...
Artificial intelligence can identify microscopic marine organisms
Credit: Tom Marchitto Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) program that can automatically provide species-level identification of microscopic marine ...
Tracking down a feat of nature
Approximately 500 million years ago, the evolution of a mineralised vertebrate skeleton had a knock-on effect, causing many new species ...
A taste for fat may have made us human, says study
Long before human ancestors began hunting large mammals for meat, a fatty diet provided them with the nutrition to develop ...
First discovered fossil feather did not belong to iconic bird Archaeopteryx
HKU imaging technology shows first discovered fossil feather did not belong to iconic bird ArchaeopteryxCredit: @The University of Hong Kong ...
Iguana-sized dinosaur cousin discovered in Antarctica
Shows how life at the South Pole bounced back after mass extinctionCredit: Adrienne Stroup/Field Museum Antarctica wasn't always a frozen ...
Climate change could make corals go it alone
Credit: Opencage/Wikimedia and Anna Weiss/ The University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences. Climate change is bad news for coral ...
Earth's largest extinction event likely took plants first
Credit: Christopher Fielding Little life could endure the Earth-spanning cataclysm known as the Great Dying, but plants may have suffered ...
The 210-million-year-old Smok was crushing bones like a hyena
Credit: Martin Qvarnström Coprolites, or fossil droppings, of the dinosaur-like archosaur Smok wawelski contain lots of chewed-up bone fragments. This ...
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