A University of Portsmouth student has discovered a new species of prehistoric mammal dating back 145 million years to the Berriasian age, providing fresh insights into the diversity of early mammals that lived alongside dinosaurs.
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Category: Paleontology
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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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Denver museum finds dinosaur bone under its parking lot
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science already houses a vast trove of dinosaur…
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New Species of Multituberculate Mammal Discovered in UK
Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized dental remains from a new genus and species of plagiaulacid multituberculate in the Lower Cretaceous Lulworth Formation of the Purbeck Group, Dorset, United Kingdom.
An artist’s restoration of…
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It’s All in the Wrist: Dinosaur Carpal Bone May Alter Scientists’ View of the Evolution of Flight
Newswise — STONY BROOK, NY, July 9, 2025 – An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils showed they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists – a bone considered important to flight in birds. This…
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A new mamenchisaurid from the Upper Jurassic Suining Formation of the Sichuan Basin in China and its implication on sauropod gigantism
Systematic paleontology
Saurischia25.
Sauropodomorpha26.
Sauropoda27.
Eusauropoda28.
Mamenchisauridae29.
Tongnanlong zhimingi gen. et sp. nov.
Etymology. The generic name Tongnan, Chinese Pinyin, refers to the Tongnan District, where the holotype was…
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An unexpected Scalopini mole (Talpidae, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Europe sheds light on the phylogeny of talpids
Sigé, B., Crochet, J. Y. & Insole, A. Les plus vieilles Taupes. Geobios Mem. Spec. 1, 141–157 (1977).
Hooker, J. J. Skeletal adaptations and phylogeny of the oldest moleEotalpa(Talpidae,…
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