Paleontologists have recovered the dinosaur skull material from beds of the Upper Jurassic Villar del Arzobispo Formation in Teruel, Spain, and confidently assigned it to a stegosaurian species called Dacentrurus armatus.
The skull of…
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3,500-year-old graves reveal secrets that rewrite bronze age history
The bioarchaeological investigation of the Bronze Age cemetery of Tiszafüred-Majoroshalom has shed new light on an important period in Central European history. An international research team – led by Tamás Hajdu, associate professor at the…
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A tectonically driven 60 million-year biogeochemical redox cycle paces marine biodiversity
Stockey, R. G. et al. Sustained increases in atmospheric oxygen and marine productivity in the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic eras. Nat. Geosci. 17, 667–674 (2024).
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160-Million-Year-Old Blue-Stain Fungus Fossils Found in China
The discovery of a fossil blue-stain fungus colonizing the insect-infested conifer wood Xenoxylon phyllocladoides in China’s Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation extends the earliest fossil record of blue-stain fungi by approximately 80 million…
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Two major ecological shifts shaped 60 million years of ungulate faunal evolution
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We built a database for all the species in the largest orders of large herbivores living in earth current ecosystems (Artiodactyla, Perissodactyla, and Proboscidea) during the last 60 Ma. First, we compiled information for these species…
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Well-preserved dinosaur skull belongs to new sauropod species
Sauropods were some of the largest dinosaurs to ever stomp across the planet,…
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Paleontologists Find New Biomarkers to Identify Megafauna Species in Australia’s Fossil Record
Paleontologists have identified peptide markers for three species of extinct Australian megafauna — a hippo-sized wombat, a giant kangaroo, and a marsupial with enormous claws — opening the way for research which could help us understand…
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Scientists say next few years vital to securing the future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be triggered with very little ocean warming above present-day, leading to a devastating four metres of global sea level rise to play out over hundreds of years according to a study now published in…
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Infant craniofacial diversity in Early Pleistocene Homo
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Original fossils from Drimolen Main Quarry (DMQ) (with the prefix DNH), Kromdraai Unit P (with the KW prefix) and Swartkrans (with the prefix SKW and SKX) are curated at the Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand…
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New Duckbilled Dinosaur Species Discovered: Taleta taleta
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of small lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur from two fossilized jaws found in Morocco.
An artist’s reconstruction of Taleta taleta. Image credit: Connor Ashbridge.
Taleta taleta lived…
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