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New giant marine reptile species from the Early Jurassic found
Sep 15, 2017 (UPI)
The 190 million-year-old bones were first discovered in the early 1990s, but only recently identified. The species was an relative of pliosaurids, a group of su...
Prehistoric crocodile species discovered in Texas
Sep 13, 2017 (UPI)
The 95-million-year-old giant reptile, a relative of modern crocs, was first discovered by a team of paleontologists from Texas, Tennessee and Wisconsin. Resear...
UT Austin study raises question: Why are fossilized hairs so rare?
Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)
New research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that when it comes to preserving these body parts, fossilized hair is rare - five times rarer th...
Study discovers why fossilized hairs are so rare to find
Sep 08, 2017 (UPI)
The study, published Wednesday in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, found that hair probably evolved much earlier than current fossil samples indicate. "This ...
Was the primordial soup a hearty pre-protein stew?
Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)
They found that the molecules, called depsipeptides, formed quickly and abundantly under conditions that would have been common on prebiotic Earth, and with ing...
Volcanic carbon dioxide drove ancient global warming event
Sep 04, 2017 (SPX)
The study, published in Nature, used a combination of new geochemical measurements and novel global climate modelling to show that the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal...
Techniques used in forensic science help discover new molecular fossils
Sep 04, 2017 (SPX)
According to a system designed by microbiologist Carl Woese, there are three domains of life on Earth - Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryota. To date, the distributi...
Volcanic eruptions drove ancient global warming event
Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)
The findings, published in Nature, refute the more commonly favored explanation that the event, called the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), was caused ...
New ancient sea reptile found in Germany - The earliest of its kind
Aug 29, 2017 (SPX)
The bizarre sea creature was a plesiosaur, an extinct long-necked aquatic reptile resembling the popular image of the Loch Ness monster, which dominated the sea...
The first hard evidence for the 'outside-in' theory of the origin of teeth
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
As lead author Donglei Chen explains, "We can watch how fishes initiated and replaced teeth one by one, and how the blood vessels of these teeth were formed, 40...
New dinosaur discovery suggests new species roosted together like modern birds
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
At least some dinosaurs likely roosted together to sleep, quite possibly as a family, much like many modern birds do today. Gregory Funston, Ph.D. Candidate at ...
Variation in the recovery of tetrapods
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
A new study, being presented at the 77th Annual Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Calgary, Alberta, compares the recovery of land-dwelling vertebrat...
Fossils reveal how bizarre mammal beat extinction
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
However, new research presented this week at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology conference in Alberta, Canada, suggests that one island mammal may hold the ...
Study finds origins of mammalian anatomical pattern
Aug 23, 2017 (UPI)
The study, published today in Scientific Reports, showed that despite the perineum's structural complexity, the muscles of the mammalian perineum show a reemerg...
Study solves mystery of how first animals appeared on Earth
Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)
Lead researcher Associate Professor Jochen Brocks said the team found the answer in ancient sedimentary rocks from central Australia. "We crushed these rocks to...
Mechanisms explaining positional diversity of the hindlimb in tetrapod evolution
Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)
Although researchers have long studied tetrapod anatomy, how the species-specific position of the body parts of these species--for example, the hindlimb positio...
First winged mammals from the Jurassic period discovered
Aug 17, 2017 (SPX)
The new discoveries suggest that the volant, or flying, way of life evolved among mammalian ancestors 100 million years earlier than the first modern mammal fli...
ASU graduate student leads study estimating oxygen loss in ancient global ocean
Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)
A new technique, developed by Arizona State University graduate student Chad Ostrander with colleagues at Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Florida...
Vegan raptor may be missing link between two major dino groups
Aug 16, 2017 (UPI)
When researchers first discovered Chilesaurus in 2015, they were puzzled by the dinosaur's unique appearance. "Chilesaurus almost looks like it was stitched tog...
Ancient fish fossil reveals human-like jaw structure
Aug 16, 2017 (UPI)
"The fossil reveals, in intricate detail, the jaw structure of this ancient fish, which is part of the evolutionary lineage that ultimately led to humans," Yuzh...
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