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Iguana-sized dinosaur cousin discovered in Antarctica
Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)
"This new animal was an archosaur, an early relative of crocodiles and dinosaurs," said Brandon Peecook, a Field Museum researcher and lead author of a paper in...
Ancient archosaur was crushing bones before T. rex
Jan 31, 2019 (UPI)
Most dinosaurs used razor-like teeth to rip the flesh from their victims, but tyrannosaurids, including the famed T. rex, sliced flesh and crushed bones. Animal...
Do microbes control the formation of giant copper deposits?
Jan 28, 2019 (SPX)
However, studies have been restricted because of the low likelihood of microbe fossilization and because biomarkers are not always definitive. This contribution...
Large volcanic eruption in Scotland may have contributed to prehistoric global warming
Jan 25, 2019 (SPX)
Large explosive volcanic eruptions can have lasting effects on climate and have been held responsible for severe climate effects in Earth's history. One such ev...
A reptile platypus from the early Triassic
Jan 25, 2019 (SPX)
Apart from its platypus-like bill, Eretmorhipis was about 70 centimeters long with a long rigid body, small head and tiny eyes, and four flippers for swimming a...
Fossilized slime of 100-million-year-old hagfish shakes up vertebrate family tree
Jan 22, 2019 (SPX)
The fossil, named Tethymyxine tapirostrum,is a 12-inch long fish embedded in a slab of Cretaceous period limestone from Lebanon. It fills a 100-million-year gap...
Ancient carpet shark discovered with 'spaceship-shaped' teeth
Jan 22, 2019 (SPX)
Unlike its gargantuan cousin the megalodon, Galagadon nordquistae was a small shark (approximately 12 to 18 inches long), related to modern-day carpet sharks su...
Coralline red algae has existed for over 430 million years
Jan 18, 2019 (SPX)
The discovery made by FAU palaeontologists Dr. Sebastian Teichert, Prof. Dr. Axel Munnecke and their Australian colleague Dr. William Woelkerling has far-reachi...
Reconstruction of trilobite ancestral range in the southern hemisphere
Jan 10, 2019 (SPX)
The longer ago organisms lived, the more rare are their fossils and the harder it is to understand their way of life; paleontologists face a daunting task in en...
Complex life emerged on land much earlier than previously thought
Jan 08, 2019 (UPI)
The fossil imprints are sandwiched between thin layers of ancient sediment, South Australian sandstone deposits dating to between 542 million to 635 million yea...
Earliest evidence of three plant groups unearthed in Jordan
Dec 28, 2018 (UPI)
The Permian period began 300 million years ago and lasted 50 million years. Among the Permian sediments, researchers recovered remains of plants from the Podoca...
The idiosyncratic mammalian diversification after extinction of the dinosaurs
Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)
Consider mammals, a class of vertebrates that already existed during the dinosaur era and survived the mass extinction event in which almost all the dinosaurs w...
Spectacular flying reptiles soared over Britain's tropical Jurassic past
Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)
Dr Michael O'Sullivan, at the University of Portsmouth, has uncovered evidence of well armed and substantial flying reptiles from historically important, but ov...
Huge reserves of iron in Western Siberia might originate from under an ancient sea
Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University together with colleagues from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay refute a widespread theory that iron in suc...
Explaining differences in rates of evolution
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
If lots of new species emerge during an interval, this would indicate favourable conditions for life on earth. In contrast, extraordinary events can trigger mas...
HKU fossil imaging helps push back feather origins by 70 million years
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
Pterosaurs and dinosaurs are closely related reptiles that lived from about 230 to 66 million years ago. Reptiles are generally known for their scales, but pter...
Fossils suggest flowers originated 50 million years earlier than thought
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
Before now, angiosperms (flowering plants) were thought to have a history of no more than 130 million years. The discovery of the novel flower species, which th...
Earth's cobalt deposits formed much later than previously believed
Dec 14, 2018 (SPX)
"Cobalt has become a critically important metal because of its use as a component in rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, from phones to hybrid cars," said Rober...
Why deep oceans gave life to the first big, complex organisms
Dec 14, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists have long questioned why these organisms appeared when and where they did: in the deep ocean, where light and food are scarce, in a time when oxygen ...
Climate change also wiped out life on Earth 252 million years ago
Dec 13, 2018 (UPI)
But until now, scientists weren't sure what exactly caused the massive Permian Period extinction, an even known as the Great Dying. Researchers knew a series of...
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