A team of scientists from University College Cork (UCC) , the University of Connecticut, and the Natural History Museum of Vienna have uncovered how plants responded to catastrophic climate changes 250 million years ago. Their findings, published…
Category: Paleontology
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Bronx Zoo’s Dinosaur Safari Is Back! New Animatronics and Hands-On Fun for Dino-Lovers of All Ages
Explore the addition of 11 brand-new, life-sized dinosaurs and pterosaurs featuring cutting-edge technology that brings guests back to prehistoric times.
Tickets now available at BronxZoo.com/Dino
Photos available here
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Morphology of the maxilla informs about the type of predation strategy in the evolution of Abelisauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda)
Foth, C. & Rauhut, O. W. M. Macroevolutionary and morphofunctional patterns in theropod skulls: a morphometric approach. Acta Palaeontol. Pol. 58, 16 (2013).
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Brusatte, S. L.,…
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Classifying microfossil radiolarians on fractal pre-trained vision transformers
Dataset used in this study
In this study, a dataset “SO32” with ~ 53,000 images (Supplementary material 2) was used. Glass slides were prepared from deep-sea sediment samples obtained from Integrated Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Site…
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Prehistoric bone tool ‘factory’ hints at early development of abstract reasoning in human ancestors
The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new study involving researchers at UCL and CSIC-…
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New Study Explains How Ancient Amphibians Survived End-Permian Mass Extinction
Primitive amphibians called temnospondyls survived the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred about 252 million years ago, by feeding on freshwater prey that evaded terrestrial predators, according to a new study from the…
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Ancient humans used bone tools one million years earlier than thought
Ancient humans used bone tools one million years earlier than thought
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Cretaceous-Period Lacewing Larvae Had Sophisticated Eyes
Paleontologists have found three lacewing larvae with large forward-directed stemmata (eyes in holometabolans) in 100-million-year-old Kachin amber from Myanmar. These specimens demonstrate the convergent evolution of highly developed simple…
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New Species of Triassic Archosauriform Discovered in Brazil
A new genus and species of proterochampsid archosauriform has been identified from an almost complete fossilized hindlimb found in southern Brazil.
Artistic representation of a Middle-Late Triassic landscape of southern Brazil depicting two…
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Digitization as a research methodology in colonial natural history collections
Remes, K., Unwin, D. M., Klein, N., Heinrich, W.-D. & Hampe, O. in Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs: Understanding the Life of Giants (eds Klein, N. et al.) 305–316 (Indiana Univ. Press, 2011).
Heumann, I., Stoecker, H. & Vennen, M. in…
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