The Tumat Puppies, two permafrost-preserved Late Pleistocene canids, have been hypothesized to have been littermates and early domesticated dogs due to a physical association with butchered mammoth bones. However, a new multifaceted analysis…
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New Species of Tyrannosauroid Dinosaur Discovered in Mongolia
Scientifically named Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, the newly-identified tyrannosauroid species is the closest-known ancestor to Tyrannosaurus rex.
Khankhuuluu mongoliensis. Image credit: Julius Csotonyi.
Khankhuuluu mongoliensis roamed our planet…
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Study: Triassic Reptiles Were Able to Migrate across Tropical Areas Deemed Inhospitable to Life
Using a novel method of geographical analysis, paleontologists inferred how archosauromorphs dispersed following one of the most impactful climate events the Earth has ever seen, the end-Permian mass extinction.
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Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archosauromorph reptiles
Benson, R., Butler, R., Close, R., Saupe, E. & Rabosky, D. Biodiversity across space and time in the fossil record. Curr. Biol. 31, 1225–1236 (2021).
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What a dinosaur ate 100 million years ago—Preserved in a fossilized time capsule
Plant fossils found in the abdomen of a sauropod support the long-standing hypothesis that these dinosaurs were herbivores, finds a study published on June 9 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology. The dinosaur, which was alive an estimated 94…
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New Pterosaur Species Unearthed in Germany
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of gnathosaurine pterosaur, named Spathagnathus roeperi, from a fossilized specimen found in the ‘Solnhofen limestones’ of southern Germany.
Artistic reconstruction of Spathagnathus…
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Paleontologists Find Fossilized Gut Contents of Sauropod Dinosaur
Diamantinasaurus matildae, a species of sauropod dinosaur that lived around 94 million years ago (mid-Cretaceous period), ate conifers, seed ferns, and flowering plants, and relied almost entirely on its gut microbes for digestion, according…
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Paleontologists dig through fossilized dino guts to see what’s inside
Nothing quite fits the moniker “gentle giant” more than sauropods. These…
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Ancient DNA integrates fossil and modern giant salamander taxonomy
Cryptobranchidae is a family of giant salamanders that includes the largest extant amphibians which has a total body length of over 1.8 m. Two extant genera are recognized: Andrias in East Asia and Cryptobranchus in North America. Andrias…
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Drone tech uncovers 1,000-year-old native american farms in michigan
With its cold climate, short growing season, and dense forests, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is known as a challenging place for farming. But a new Dartmouth-led study provides evidence of intensive farming by ancestral Native Americans at the…
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