A young woman was laid to rest with two small children at her side. For years, it might have seemed natural to assume they were her own. But DNA testing tells a different story. The children were closely related to each other, yet the woman was…
Category: Paleontology
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A Tyrannosaurus tooth embedded in dinosaur skull tells a violent story
A rare dinosaur fossil on display at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman,…
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Newly Discovered Prehistoric Crocodilian Had Legs That Went All the Way Up
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The island of Great Britain wasnât an island at all 215 million years ago….
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Triceratopsâ Oversized Nasal Cavities Played Roles Far Beyond Smell, Paleontologists Find
For decades, depictions of Triceratops and its kin have been driven by bone alone. Now, paleontologists in Japan have mapped the soft-tissue anatomy of these horned dinosaurs, revealing unexpected structures that may explain how they regulated…
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Small Triassic Dinosaur from Brazil Sheds New Light on Sauropodomorph Growth Strategies
Paleontologists have unearthed fossilized bones of one of the smallest sauropodomorph dinosaurs from the Late Triassic of southern Brazil, offering fresh insights into early dinosaur development and physiology.
Massospondylus carinatus, a…
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Scientists Find Key Building Block of Life in 500-Million-Year-Old Fossils
Ancient fossils are revealing unexpected chemical survivors, challenging long-held assumptions about how biological carbon is preserved over Earthâs history. Trilobites are some of the most recognizable fossils on Earth, yet they have mostly…
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Reappraisal of the extinct barbelthroat shark â Bavariscyllium and the nebulous origin of carcharhiniform galeomorphs
Underwood, C. J. Diversification of the Neoselachii (Chondrichthyes) during the Jurassic and Cretaceous. Paleobiology 32, 215â235 (2006).
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Kriwet, J., Kiessling, W. & Klug, S….
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A dataset of radiocarbon dates from Holarctic mammal collagen purified with high-quality chemistry
Swift, J. A. et al. Micro methods for megafauna: novel approaches to Late Quaternary extinctions and their contributions to faunal conservation in the Anthropocene. Bioscience 69, 877â887, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz105 (2019).
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Comparative habits and habitat in extant and extinct nautiloid cephalopods from acoustic telemetry and stable oxygen isotope analyses
Pohle, A. et al. Bayesian inference of early cephalopod phylogeny â posterior clade supports and tree similarities. BMC Biol. 20, 88. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-022-01284-5C (2022).
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A dual respiratory and auditory function for the coelacanth lung
Brito, P. M., Meunier, F., ClĂ©ment, G. & Geffard-Kuriyama, D. The histological structure of the calcified lung of the fossil coelacanth Axelrodichthys araripensis (Actinistia: Mawsoniidae). Palaeontology 53, 1281â1290 (2010).
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