Researcher questions whether powered flight appeared on non-avialan dinosaurs
Francisco Serrano, from University of Malaga, refutes this conclusion published in 2020 in the absence of scientific evidenceCredit: F.J. Serrano. ...
Tag: Paleontology
Scrubbing paleontological data
The winning entry of the Open Research Challenge (ORC) offers a solution for cleaning paleontological dataCredit: Picture: Joe Flannery Sutherland ...
Fat-footed tyrannosaur parents could not keep up with their skinnier adolescent offspring
Credit: Vitor Silva New research by the University of New England's Palaeoscience Research Centre suggests juvenile tyrannosaurs were slenderer and ...
New results about the diets of people who lived on the Great Hungarian Plain
A transdisciplinary study of the dietary evolution of the first agricultural and pastoral communities in Central EuropeCredit: Photo credit: Marina ...
Fearsome tyrannosaurs were social animals, study suggests
The report, based on research at a unique fossil site in Utah, provides new evidence that tyrannosaurs were social carnivores ...
Stone Age black bears didn’t just defecate in the woods – they did it in a cave too
Scientists have sequenced ancient DNA from soil for the first time and the advance will transform what is known about ...
Ice cap study promises new prospects for accurate local climate projections
Credit: Christian Panton New, detailed study of the Renland Ice Cap offers the possibility of modelling other smaller ice caps ...
Tiny cat-sized stegosaur leaves its mark
Credit: Kamitoge A single footprint left by a cat-sized dinosaur around 100 million years ago has been discovered in China ...
Study cements age and location of hotly debated skull from early human Homo erectus
Scientists also find two new, nearly 2-million-year-old specimens--likely the earliest pieces of the H. erectus skeleton yet discoveredCredit: A. Hammond/© ...
Megafauna extinction mystery – size isn’t everything
Credit: Illustration by Gabriel Ugueto Ancient clues, in the shape of fossils and archaeological evidence of varying quality scattered across ...
Ancient ammonoids’ shell designs may have aided buoyancy control
Researchers use 3-D-printed models to explore fractal-like interior shell patternsCredit: David Peterman Ammonoids, ancestors of today's octopus, squid and cuttlefish, ...
Past Global Changes Horizons – a new paleoscience magazine for teenagers and young adults
Picture the past. Change the future.Credit: Illustration by Cirenia Arias Baldrich for Past Global Changes Horizons, vol. 1 Past Global ...
Bigger brains gave squirrels the capacity to move up in the world
Credit: Ornella Bertrand Squirrels and other tree-dwelling rodents evolved to have bigger brains than their burrowing cousins, a study suggests. ...
Shift in diet allowed gray wolves to survive ice-age extinction
Credit: Julius Csotonyi April12, 2021 - Gray wolves are among the largest predators to have survived the extinction at the ...
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