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Extinct 10-armed cephalopod named after President Joe Biden
Mar 08, 2021 (UPI)
The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, said the vampyropod fossil was discovered in the Bear Gulch Limestone in Fergus County, Mont., and do...
New stegosaurus dinosaur species is oldest discovered in Asia
Mar 04, 2021 (UPI)
The peer-reviewed research published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology said this new species is the one of the oldest discovered anywhere on Earth. Bone...
Pyrite isn't a reliable proxy for Earth's oxygenation, study says
Feb 26, 2021 (UPI)
Many of the secrets of primordial Earth -- its climate conditions and biochemical composition -- are hidden in layers of marine sediments. To reconstruct Earth'...
Teenage tyrannosaurs, 'megatheropods' limited diversity of smaller dinos
Feb 25, 2021 (UPI)
For more than 150 million years, dinosaurs dominated Earth's ecosystems and food chains, but for all their dominations, dinosaurs boasted surprisingly low rates...
'Exceedingly rare' intact pterosaur fossil from Jurassic period found in Scotland
Feb 22, 2021 (UPI)
The University of Edinburgh team, which published its paper on the discovery Tuesday in the journal Current Biology, said the pterosaur that lived about 170 mil...
Geologists produce new timeline of Earth's Paleozoic climate changes
Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)
In a study appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers chart dips and peaks in the global temperature during the early Pal...
Group accuses Utah agency of ruining ancient dinosaur tracks
Feb 02, 2021 (UPI)
According to Patrick Donnelly, Great Basin director for the organization, the site features more than 200 dinosaur tracks that have been preserved in sedimentar...
Experiments show the record of early life could be full of false positives
Jan 29, 2021 (SPX)
But that record is steeped in controversy, with each new discovery (rightfully) critiqued, questioned, and analyzed from every angle. Even then, uncertainty in ...
Diving into devonian seas
Jan 28, 2021 (SPX)
A team of paleontologists led by Professor Cathryn Newton has increased scientists' understanding of whether Devonian marine faunas, whose fossils are lodged in...
Giant dinosaur hunted from the shoreline like a bird
Jan 26, 2021 (UPI)
Instead, a new analysis -- published Tuesday in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica -- suggests the enormous dinosaur hunted from the shoreline and shallows,...
Skull reveals evolutionary origins of tube-crested dinosaur's unusual airways
Jan 25, 2021 (UPI)
But thanks to a newly excavated fossil, scientists have gained fresh insights into the evolutionary origins of the species' unusual tube-shaped nasal passage. O...
Much of Earth's nitrogen was locally sourced
Jan 22, 2021 (SPX)
The isotopic signatures of nitrogen in iron meteorites reveal that Earth likely gathered its nitrogen not only from the region beyond Jupiter's orbit but also f...
Fossil burrows suggest large worms colonized Eurasian seafloor 20M years ago
Jan 21, 2021 (UPI)
Scientists described the novel trace fossils in a new study, published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports. Trace fossils are the holes, pockets and impr...
Genetic rewiring behind spectacular evolutionary explosion in East Africa
Jan 20, 2021 (SPX)
Published in BMC Genome Biology, an Earlham Institute (EI) study, with collaborators at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Wisconsin Institute for Discover...
50-million-year-old assassin bug fossil features near-perfectly preserved genitalia
Jan 20, 2021 (UPI)
Though the ancient insect's pygophore, a genital capsule, is no bigger than a grain of rice, researchers were able to clearly see the genitalia's internal featu...
Scientists characterize a dinosaur cloaca, or vent, for the first time
Jan 19, 2021 (UPI)
Many mammals have distinct openings for defecating, urinating and reproduction, but most vertebrates boast a single hole. The latest discovery, published Tuesda...
Study links little crocodile evolution in last 200M years to lack of need
Jan 07, 2021 (UPI)
Modern crocodiles look much the same as their ancestors that lived alongside dinosaurs, and research published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications Bio...
How Earth's oddest mammal got to be so bizarre
Jan 07, 2021 (SPX)
It lays eggs, but nurses, it is toothless, has a venomous spur, has webbed feet, fur that glows and has 10 sex chromosomes. Ever since Europeans discovered the ...
Triceratops, Stegosaurus ideal seed spreaders in prehistoric world
Jan 06, 2021 (UPI)
The findings suggest dinosaurs may have helped ancient plant species spread across the prehistoric world. To better understand how seeds might have been carried...
Giant mouse relative dubbed 'crazy beast' shared Gondwana with dinosaurs
Dec 18, 2020 (UPI)
The origins of storied animal lineages sometimes are described as evolutionary experiments. These primitive species often feature odd combinations of attributes...
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