The discovery of Australia’s oldest known crocodile eggshells is giving UNSW scientists new insight into the animals and ecosystems that existed millions of years ago, long before Australia separated into its own island continent. In the…
Category: Paleontology
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55-Million-Year-Old Backyard Fossil Find Shocks Paleontologists
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New evidence shows the Maya collapse was more than just drought
Why do people choose to settle in cities, and what motivates them to leave? Modern urban areas continue to gain and lose residents for many reasons, including economic pressures, congestion, lifestyle shifts, pollution and, at times, major public…
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150-Million-Year-Old Footprints of Limping Sauropod Dinosaur Found in Colorado
Paleontologists have analyzed an exceptionally long sauropod trackway at the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite in Colorado, the United States. Their results show that the giant dinosaur which made it may have been limping.
Aerial view of the…
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Textbooks Were Wrong: 249-Million-Year-Old Fossil Discovery Upends Timeline of Evolution
Newly analyzed Arctic fossils show that marine ecosystems recovered astonishingly fast after the “great dying.” More than 30,000 teeth, bones, and other fossil fragments from a 249-million-year-old marine ecosystem have been uncovered on the…
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Neogene plant macrofossils from West Antarctica reveal persistence of Nothofagaceae forests into the early Miocene
Green, T. G. A., Schroeter, B. & Sancho, L. G. Plant Life in Antarctica. In Functional Plant Ecology (CRC Press, 2007).
Allegrucci, G., Carchini, G., Todisco, V., Convey, P. & Sbordoni, V. A molecular phylogeny of Antarctic Chironimidae and its…
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Mystery owner of African hominin foot identified
Mystery owner of African hominin foot identified
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This bright orange life-form could point to new dino discoveries
Tiny life-forms with bright colors might point the way to big dinosaur bone discoveries.
In the badlands of western Canada, two species of lichen prefer making their homes on dinosaur bones instead of on the surrounding desert rock,…
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11,000-Year-Old Dog Skulls Rewrite the Story of Domestication
New research shows that domestic dogs began diversifying at least 11,000 years ago, long before modern breeding. A major archaeological investigation has uncovered when domestic dogs first started developing the wide range of shapes and sizes…
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Why did ancient people build massive, mysterious mounds in Louisiana?
About 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherer communities began shaping enormous earthen mounds along the Mississippi River at Poverty Point, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northeast Louisiana. Tristram “T.R.” Kidder, the Edward S. and Tedi Macias…
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First unambiguous evidence of Multituberculata from the Late Cretaceous of South America
Systematic paleontology
Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758.
Multituberculata Cope, 1884.
Cimolodonta McKenna, 1975.
?Neoplagiaulacidae Ameghino, 1890.
Notopolytheles joelis gen. and sp. nov. (Fig.
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