Illustration depicting the early bird Falcatakely amidst nonavian dinosaurs and other creatures during the Late Cretaceous in Madagascar. Credit: Mark Witton Rare cretaceous-age fossil opens…
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Live reconstruction of the early sauropod Bagualia alba. Credit: Jorge Gonzales Global warming triggered the evolution of giant dinosaurs. An international team of paleontologists, including…
By cutting into fossils and examining growth rings, scientists learned how predatory dinosaurs got so big. Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the biggest meat-eating dinosaurs…
Titanosaurs were common at the time of the asteroid hit at the end of the Cretaceous 66 million years ago. A new statistical analysis of…
Lava flowing across black rocks. International research led by geologists from Curtin University has found that a volcanic province in the Indian Ocean was the…
Duckbill dinosaurs evolved in north America, spreading to South America, Asia, Europe, and finally Africa. Credit: Raul Martin The first fossils of a duckbilled dinosaur…
Life reconstruction of Cambaytherium. Credit: Elaine Kasmer Published in the prestigious Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir Series, these landmark findings of over 350 fossils, will…
Most fossil albanerpetontids are crushed or in disarray. This CT image shows an exquisitely preserved adult albanerpetontid skull that is helping researchers re-envision these extinct…
Buriolestes schultzi brain. Credit: Márcio L. Castro The study of the brain of extinct organisms sheds lights on their behaviors. However, soft tissues, like the…
A Photoshop-created image of how Kataigidodon venetus may have looked, illustrated by Ben Kligman, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geosciences and Hannah R.…
Honey Badger (Mellivora capensis). Credit: Jaffacity CC BY-SA 4.0 New research reports on discovery of 5-million-year-old honey badger-like animal from West Coast of South Africa.…
K/Pg, or Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, refers to the aftermath of the asteroid hitting Earth 66 million years ago. Credit: Odysseus Archontikis/University of Oxford Tiny, seemingly…
An illustration of Brevicaudosaurus. Credit: Illustration by Tyler Stone BA ’19, art and cinema; https://tylerstoneart.wordpress.com About 240 million years ago, when reptiles ruled the ocean,…
Giant Lizards Learned to Fly Over Millions of Years – Pterosaurs Evolved Improved Flight Performance
Giant Lizards Learned to Fly Over Millions of Years – Pterosaurs Evolved Improved Flight Performance
Rhamphohynchus — one of 75 pterosaur species studied by the researchers. Credit: Mark Witton Study uses new method to show that Pterosaurs became twice as…
Illustration depicting the onset of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction based on findings of Jurikova et al. (2020). Ocean acidification and vanishing marine life in the…
This illustration shows a reconstruction of Ambopteryx in a glide. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto Despite having bat-like wings, two small dinosaurs, Yi and Ambopteryx, struggled to…
The origin of endothermy in synapsids, including the ancestors of mammals. The diagram shows the evolution of main groups through the Triassic, and the scale…
Illustration of “Homotherium Latidens.” Credit: University of Copenhagen Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have mapped the entire nuclear genome of a saber-toothed cat. The…
Of the six or more different species of early humans, all belonging to the genus Homo, only we Homo sapiens have managed to survive. Now,…
Artist’s rendering of Gavialimimus almaghribensis, a newly discovered species of mosasaur that ruled the seas of what is now Morocco some 72 to 66 million…