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April 27, 2024
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Apr. 9, 2024 Several similar large, fossilized bone fragments have been discovered in various regions across Western and Central Europe since the 19th century. The animal group to which they belonged is still the subject of much debate to this day. A study could ...
Apr. 5, 2024 A new study calls into question Bergmann's rule, an 1800s-era scientific principle stating that animals in high-latitude, cooler climates tend to be larger than close relatives living in warmer ...
Apr. 3, 2024 The earliest dinosaurs had rapid growth rates, but so did many of the other animals living alongside them, according to a new ...
Mar. 12, 2024 A large find of dinosaur tracks and fossilized plants and tree stumps in far northwestern Alaska provides new information about the climate and movement of animals near the time when they began traveling between the Asian and North American ...
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Mar. 12, 2024 An international team of palaeontologists applied recently developed methods to measure theropod (carnivorous) dinosaur species diversity. The newly applied method uses both traditional phylogenetic ...
Mar. 5, 2024 Fossils of a strange new species of marine lizard with dagger-like teeth that lived 66 million years ago, show a dramatically more biodiverse ocean ...
Mar. 5, 2024 A new fossil, named 'Attenborough's strange bird' after naturalist and documentarian Sir David Attenborough, is the first of its kind to evolve a ...
Feb. 14, 2024 A new study explores the weight great fossil sites have on our understanding of evolutionary relationships between fossil groups and quantified the power these sites have on our understanding of ...
Feb. 12, 2024 Scientists examined hundreds of birds in museum collections and discovered a suite of feather characteristics that all flying birds have in common. ...
Feb. 7, 2024 Dinosaurs' range of locomotion made them incredibly adaptable, researchers have ...
Jan. 30, 2024 Evolutionary biologists report they have combined PET scans of modern pigeons along with studies of dinosaur fossils to help answer an enduring ...
Jan. 22, 2024 Gliding winged-reptiles were amongst the ancient crocodile residents of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England, researchers at the have ...
Jan. 10, 2024 Picrodontids -- an extinct family of placental mammals that lived several million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs -- are not primates as previously ...
Jan. 2, 2024 A new analysis of fossils believed to be juveniles of T. rex now shows they were adults of a small tyrannosaur, with narrower jaws, longer legs, and bigger arms than T. rex. The species, Nanotyrannus ...
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Dec. 12, 2023 Researchers have described a Japanese mosasaur the size of a great white shark that terrorized Pacific seas 72 million years ago. The mosasaur was named for the place where it was found, Wakayama ...
Dec. 4, 2023 What wiped out the dinosaurs? A meteorite plummeting to Earth is only part of the story, a new study suggests. Climate change triggered by massive volcanic eruptions may have ultimately set the stage ...
Nov. 29, 2023 Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according to a new ...
Nov. 14, 2023 New research sheds light on the dining habits of ancient carnivorous dinosaurs from Jurassic rocks of the USA. A recent study explores the bite marks left on the ancient bones of the giant ...
Nov. 1, 2023 Carnivorous dinosaurs might have evolved to take advantage of giant carcasses, according to a new ...
Oct. 5, 2023 For decades, scientists have assumed that mammals and their relatives that survived challenging times (like those during mass extinctions) made it because they were generalists that were able to eat ...
Sep. 28, 2023 Paleontologists discover possible DNA remains in fossil turtle that lived 6 million years ago in Panama, where continents ...
Sep. 21, 2023 Palaeontologists have discovered X-ray evidence of proteins in fossil feathers that sheds new light on feather ...
Sep. 20, 2023 A groundbreaking study is reshaping our understanding of crocodile evolution by pinpointing the onset of slow growth rates to the Late Triassic period, much earlier than the previously assumed Early ...
Sep. 12, 2023 A new study by researchers from the University of Bath (UK) and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) shows that flowering plants escaped relatively unscathed from the mass extinction ...
Sep. 1, 2023 A new study brings together intriguing details about the little-known Rhabdodontidae dinosaurs of Late Cretaceous Europe. These gregarious herbivores, characterized by robust builds and beaks ...
Aug. 23, 2023 Researchers have discovered the fossils of two new abelisaurs in Morocco, showing the diversity of dinosaurs in this region at the end of the Cretaceous ...
Aug. 14, 2023 Scientists have discovered and documented the largest known single dinosaur track site in Alaska. The site, located in Denali National Park and Preserve, has been dubbed 'The Coliseum' by ...
July 26, 2023 Researchers have described a new species of armored reptile that lived near the time of the first appearance of dinosaurs. With bony plates on its backbone, this archosaur fossil reveals that armor ...
July 18, 2023 Scientists have described an unusual fossil from around 125 million years ago in China that shows a dramatic moment in time when a carnivorous mammal attacked a larger plant-eating dinosaur. The two ...
July 5, 2023 Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid-induced mass extinction 66 million years ago. But not all the birds alive at the time made it. Why the ancestors of modern birds lived ...
June 27, 2023 Scientists have filled a major gap in the state's fossil record -- describing the first known Jurassic vertebrate fossils in Texas. The weathered bone fragments are from the limbs and backbone ...
June 27, 2023 A Cretaceous origin for placental mammals, the group that includes humans, dogs and bats, has been revealed by in-depth analysis of the fossil record, showing they co-existed with dinosaurs for a ...
June 16, 2023 First armoured dinosaur to be described from the Isle of Wight in 142 years, shows Ankylosaurs may have been far more diverse than originally ...
June 13, 2023 The first side-necked turtle ever to be found in the UK has been discovered by an amateur fossil collector and ...
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- Newly Discovered Jurassic Fossils in Texas
- Humans' Ancestors Survived the Asteroid Impact That Killed the Dinosaurs
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- Scientists Discover What Was on the Menu of the First Dinosaurs
- Climate Change Played Key Role in Dinosaur Success Story
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- Fossil Overturns More Than a Century of Knowledge About the Origin of Modern Birds
- Oldest Pterodactylus Fossil Found in Germany
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- New Species of Stegosaur Is Oldest Discovered in Asia, and Possibly the World
- Physics Race Pits Usain Bolt Against Jurassic Park Dinosaur
- Researchers Reconstruct Ancient Fish Lizard
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- Exquisitely Preserved Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Dinosaur Egg
- An Ancient Relative of Velociraptor Is Unearthed in Great Britain
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- Novel Approach to a Plant-Based Diet, Unique to Long-Necked Dinosaurs
- New Species of Iguanodontian Dinosaur Discovered from Isle of Wight
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- ‘Raptor-Like’ Dinosaur Discovered in Australian Mine, Actually Uncovered as a Timid Vegetarian
- Early Dinosaurs May Have Lived in Social Herds as Early as 193 Million Years Ago