Palaeontology
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3.5KFirst tetrapods of Africa lived within the Devonian Antarctic Circle
The first African fossils of Devonian tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates) show these pioneers of land living within the Antarctic circle, 360 million years...
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2.8KJurassic diet: why our knowledge of what ancient pterosaurs ate might be wrong
Whenever we think about extinct animals we often imagine them eating their favourite meals, whether it be plants, other animals or a...
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3.3KLife recovered rapidly at impact site of dino-killing asteroid
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid smashed into Earth, triggering a mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs and...
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2.6KThe smallest biggest theropod dinosaur
Spinosaurus is the longest, and among the largest predatory dinosaurs, and possesses many adaptations for a semiaquatic lifestyle. A tiny claw phalanx...
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2.5KFossilized feces reveal Early Cretaceous aquatic vertebrate diversity
Ancient fossils faeces found in central Spain belonged to fish-eating carnivores from the Early Cretaceous, according to a study published by Sandra...
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3.8KGenome structure of dinosaurs discovered by bird-turtle comparisons
A discovery by scientists at the University of Kent has provided significant insight into the overall genome structure of dinosaurs.
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3.4KFeeding habits of ancient elephants uncovered from grass fragments stuck in their teeth
A new study, led by scientists at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing, China, including University of Bristol...
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2.5KMajor shift in marine life occurred 33 million years later in the South
A new study of marine fossils from Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand and South America reveals that one of the greatest changes to...
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6.5KJurassic fossil tail tells of missing link in crocodile family tree
A 180 million-year-old fossil has shed light on how some ancient crocodiles evolved into dolphin-like animals.
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2.9KAncient skull shows early ‘baleen whale’ had teeth
Today's baleen whales (Mysticetes) support their massive bodies by filtering huge volumes of small prey from seawater using comb-like baleen in their...
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3.4KIs amber tricking palaeontologists?
When we see a ring or glassware made of amber, most of the times we think about its aesthetic or economic value.
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2.3K25 years of fossil collecting yields clearest picture of extinct 12-foot aquatic predator
After 25 years of collecting fossils at a Pennsylvania site, scientists at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University now have...
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2.8KScientists find the first bird beak, right under their noses
Researchers have pieced together the three-dimensional skull of an iconic, toothed bird that represents a pivotal moment in the transition from dinosaurs...
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3.8KCracking Open the Formation of Fossil Concretions
Researchers at Nagoya University resolve the formation mechanism of “spherical carbonate concretions” and find they form much more rapidly than previously recognized
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2.6KDinosaurs’ tooth wear sheds light on their predatory lives
Predatory, bird-like theropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (100.5-66 million years ago) of Spain and Canada all relied on a puncture-and-pull bite...
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4.3KNew species of ancient whale identified and named by Otago paleontologists
University of Otago palaeontologists are rewriting the history of New Zealand's ancient whales by describing a previously unknown genus of baleen whale,...
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2.2KFirst an alga, then a squid, enigmatic fossil is actually a fish
A fossil slab discovered in Kansas 70 years ago and twice misidentified--first as a green alga and then as a cephalopod--has been...
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2.7KDinosaurs ended – and originated – with a bang!
It is commonly understood that the dinosaurs disappeared with a bang - wiped out by a great meteorite impact on the Earth...
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