Palaeontology
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2.6KThe dinosaur menu, as revealed by calcium
By studying calcium in fossil remains in deposits in Morocco and Niger, researchers have been able to reconstruct the food chains of...
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3.3KPrehistoric reptile pregnant with octuplets
Palaeontologists have discovered part of the skeleton of a 180 million-year-old pregnant ichthyosaur with the remains of between six and eight tiny...
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4.9KDecade of fossil collecting gives new perspective on Triassic period, emergence of dinosaurs
After a great mass extinction shook the world about 252 million years ago, animal life outside of the ocean began to take...
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4.0KPterosaurs went out with a bang, not a whimper
Fossils of six new species of pterosaurs - giant flying reptiles that flew over the heads of the dinosaurs - have been...
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4.1KAsh from dinosaur-era volcanoes linked with shale oil, gas
Nutrient-rich ash from an enormous flare-up of volcanic eruptions toward the end of the dinosaurs' reign kicked off a chain of events...
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6.2K127-million-year-old baby bird fossil sheds light on avian evolution
The tiny fossil of a prehistoric baby bird is helping scientists understand how early avians came into the world in the Age...
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5.3KFlipside of a dinosaur mystery: ‘Bloat-and-float’ explains belly-up ankylosaur fossils
A scientist with the Canadian Museum of Nature has answered a long-standing mystery about why fossils of ankylosaurs -- the "armoured tanks" of the...
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19.4KA mineral blueprint for finding Burgess Shale-type fossils
Scientists have identified a mineral signature for sites that are more likely to contain rare fossils that preserve evidence of soft tissue...
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4.7KChild aids paleontologists in discovery of new ancient fish species
Paleontologists from the University of Alberta have discovered a never-before-seen species of fish in South America, with the help of a curious...
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4.7KNew Egyptian dinosaur reveals ancient link between Africa and Europe
When it comes to the final days of the dinosaurs, Africa is something of a blank page. Fossils found in Africa from...
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6.2KPrimitive fossil bear with a sweet tooth
Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County have identified remains of a 3.5-million-year-old...
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5.0KTreasure trove of highly detailed fossils uncovered by Uppsala researchers
A team of researchers from Uppsala University have uncovered a hidden diversity of microscopic animal fossils from over half a billion years...
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5.0KA 508-million-year-old sea predator with a ‘jackknife’ head
Paleontologists at the University of Toronto (U of T) and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto have entirely revisited a tiny...
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5.7KEvolution is in the ears of extinct aquatic reptiles
Research of inners ears of aquatic reptiles now extinct has revealed a close resemblance with aquatic animals alive today.
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11.0K530-million-year-old fossil has look of world’s oldest eye, study suggests
A 530-million-year-old fossil contains what could be the oldest eye ever discovered, a study reveals.
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5.3KRecently discovered fossil shows transition of a reptile from life on land to life in the sea
Using modern research tools on a 155-million-year-old reptile fossil, scientists at Johns Hopkins and the American Museum of Natural History report they...
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4.0KU-M researchers recover more mammoth bones from Chelsea-area farm
University of Michigan paleontologists conducted a second excavation at the Chelsea-area farm where the skull, tusks and dozens of intact bones of...
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4.0KA horse is a horse, of course, of course — except when it isn’t
An international team of researchers has discovered a previously unrecognized genus of extinct horses that roamed North America during the last ice...
