A new genus and species of zhelestid mammal has been identified from the fossilized remains found in the Bayanshiree Formation in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert.
Life reconstruction of Ravjaa ishiii (foreground), depicted on the foot of the…
Category: Paleontology
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New drone-assisted 3D model offers a more accurate way to date dinosaur fossils
A new study from McGill University is reshaping how scientists date dinosaur fossils in Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park (DPP). Using advanced drone-assisted 3D mapping, researchers have uncovered significant variations in a key geological…
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Slickrock: Geologists explore why Utah’s Wasatch Fault is vulnerable to earthquakes
About 240 miles long, Utah’s Wasatch Fault stretches along the western edge of the Wasatch Mountains from southern Idaho to central Utah, running through Salt Lake City and the state’s other population centers. It’s a seismically active normal…
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Western US spring runoff is older than you think
Growing communities and extensive agriculture throughout the Western United States rely on meltwater that spills out of snow-capped mountains every spring. The models for predicting the amount of this streamflow available each year have long…
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Fossil of Middle Jurassic Cerapodan Dinosaur Found in Morocco
The new specimen represents the world’s oldest cerapodan ornithischian dinosaur, according to a team of paleontologists from Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, the University of Birmingham and the Natural History Museum, London.
The…
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Ancient Andes society used hallucinogens to strengthen social order
Two thousand years before the Inca empire dominated the Andes, a lesser-known society known as the Chavín Phenomenon shared common art, architecture, and materials throughout modern-day Peru. Through agricultural innovations, craft production,…
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Advancing non-destructive sex determination on human dental enamel using Raman spectroscopy
Stewart, N. A., Gerlach, R. F., Gowland, R. L., Gron, K. J. & Montgomery, J. Sex determination of human remains from peptides in tooth enamel. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 114, 13649–13654 (2017).
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Paleontologists Describe New Species of Rhabdodontid Dinosaur
Named Obelignathus septimanicus, the new species inhabited the European Archipelago around 72 million years ago (Cretaceous period) and belonged to a family of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaurs called Rhabdodontidae.
Life restoration of…
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How mid-Cretaceous events affected marine top predators
Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous oceans are known for enormous and fierce predators like pliosaurids with 2-meter-long jaws, toothy thalattosuchia crocodyliforms, and fast, fish-like ichthyosaurians. Then, during the middle Cretaceous,…
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Study: Several Groups of Pterosaurs Became More Terrestrial 160 Million Years Ago
Pterosaurs are often imagined soaring over the heads of dinosaurs, but a new analysis of their fossilized footprints shows that some of these flying reptiles were just as comfortable walking on the ground.
Terrestrial locomotion and track…
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