Paleontology
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Giants of the Jurassic seas were twice the size of a killer whale
An artist’s impression of the pliosaur by Megan Jacobs, University of Portsmouth Over 20 years ago, the BBC’s Walking with…
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Worlds Largest “Raptor” Dinosaurs Lived 10 Million Years Earlier Than Thought
Home Science News Csotonyi illustration: Portrayal of Utahraptors and prey trapped in quicksand deposit of the Stikes Quarry bone bed…
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110-Million-Year-Old Turtle Eggs Unearthed in South Korea
Paleontologists have found a clutch of fossilized turtle eggs in the Lower Cretaceous Hasandong Formation in South Korea. Paleoenvironmental restoration…
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Carboniferous Fossil Gives Insight into Neural Anatomy of Early Ray-Finned Fishes
Paleontologists have examined the fossilized brain and cranial nerve soft tissues of Coccocephalus wildi, a species of early ray-finned fish…
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New Species of Giant Sea Scorpion Unearthed in New Mexico
Hibbertopterus lamsdelli is only the fourth, yet most reliable record of an American hibbertopterid sea scorpion. Life reconstruction of a…
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220-Million-Year-Old Fossils Identified as Oldest Known Caecilian
Funcusvermis gilmorei lived in the tropical forests of what is now Arizona, the United States, during the Triassic period, approximately…
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New Species of Duck-Billed Dinosaur Identified in Texas
Paleontologists have described a previously unrecognized genus and species of hadrosaurid dinosaur from a partial bone found in Texas, the…
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Ozone Layer Collapse Contributed to End-Permian Mass Extinction
In new research, paleontologists analyzed abundances of sunscreen-like chemicals in 800 fossil pollen grains from 250-million-year-old rocks in Tibet. The…
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Scientists Reconstruct 2-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem from Environmental DNA
Researchers have analyzed microscopic fragments of 2-million-year-old environmental DNA from of the Kap København Formation in Greenland. The DNA record…
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