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Category: Paleontology
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New Neornithischian Dinosaur Unearthed in China
Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a new species of early-diverging neornithischian dinosaur that was part of the Jurassic Yanliao Biota in northern China.
The skeleton of Pulaosaurus qinglong in left lateral view. Image credit:…
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Key Wrist Bone Appeared in Bird Ancestors Millions of Years Earlier than Previously Thought
A team of paleontologists from Yale University and Stony Brook University made this discovery after examining fossils from two species of bird-like dinosaurs found in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
This scene depicts an oviraptorid dinosaur…
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How fast did dinosaurs really go? Birds walking in mud provide new clues
Over a video call from a dig site near Oxford, England, Peter Falkingham points his phone down to show a fossilized footprint of what was probably a large sauropod.
Stepping inside the long-necked dinosaur print, which could fit both…
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Princeton study maps 200,000 years of Human–Neanderthal interbreeding
When the first Neanderthal bones were uncovered in 1856, they sparked a flood of questions about these mysterious ancient humans. Were they similar to us or fundamentally different? Did our ancestors cooperate with them, clash with them, or even…
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Inside the Maya king’s tomb that rewrites Mesoamerican history
Archaeologists from the University of Houston working at Caracol in Belize, Central America have uncovered the tomb of Te K’ab Chaak, the first ruler of this ancient Maya city and the founder of its royal dynasty. Now in ruins, this metropolis…
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New Species of Extremely Gigantic Sauropod Dinosaur Found in China
Paleontologists in China have discovered the skeletal remains of a remarkable new genus and species of huge-sized mamenchisaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic epoch.
Fossil remains of Tongnanlong zhimingi. Image credit: Wei et al., doi:…
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New Species of Tiny Cretaceous Mammal Discovered by University of Portsmouth Student
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It marks the first multituberculate jaw found at Swanage since Victorian times
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Third new species discovered in Dorset by University of Portsmouth undergraduate students in under a decade
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Portsmouth team carried out…
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The first pandemic? Scientists find 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric DNA
A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from Eurasia.
The study shows, among other things,…
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Ancient Protein Analysis Sheds New Light on Rhino Family Tree
Paleontologists have retrieved ancient enamel protein sequences from a fossilized tooth of Epiaceratherium sp., a rhinocerotid that lived in Canada’s High Arctic between 24 and 21 million years ago (Early Miocene). The recovered sequences…
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