Paleobiology is a scientific journal promoting the integration of biology and conventional paleontology, with emphasis placed on biological or paleobiological processes and patterns. It attracts papers of interest to more than one discipline, and occasionally publishes research on recent organisms when this is of interest to paleontologists.
An often cited claim that humans, who are smarter and more technologically advanced than their ancestors, originated in response to climate change is challenged in a new report by a Center for the Advanced Study of Human ...
Archaeology
Aug 4, 2017
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During the last Ice Age, Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea formed a single landmass, called Sahul. It was a strange and often hostile place populated by a bizarre cast of giant animals.
Archaeology
Jan 26, 2017
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The whirling, winged seeds of today's conifers are an engineering wonder and, as University of California, Berkeley, scientists show, a result of about 270 million years of evolution by trees experimenting with the best way ...
Evolution
Mar 17, 2015
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Decades of research on Montana's state fossil—the "good mother lizard" Maiasaura peeblesorum - has resulted in the most detailed life history of any dinosaur known and created a model to which all other dinosaurs can be ...
Archaeology
Oct 2, 2015
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Scientists from the Universities of Bristol and Málaga have proposed that the long extinct marsupial lion hunted in a very unique way - by using its teeth to hold prey before dispatching them with its huge claws.
Archaeology
Aug 16, 2016
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Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest land-dwelling animals of all time, with highly elongated necks and tails that were held suspended above the ground.
Archaeology
Jul 11, 2016
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Trilobites, extinct marine arthropods that roamed the world's oceans from about 520 million years ago until they went extinct 250 million years ago at the end of the Permian period, may have grown in a similar fashion and ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 25, 2022
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(Phys.org) —A team of scientists have suggested reasons why the largest dinosaurs ever to have walked the Earth produced smaller eggs than might be expected.
Archaeology
Jun 12, 2014
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In the Mesozoic, the time of the dinosaurs, from 252 to 66 million years ago, marine reptiles such as ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs were top predators in the oceans. But their origins and early rise to dominance have been ...
Archaeology
May 20, 2016
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Ancient marine creatures once believed to have been mere 'bit players' in the fossil record have now found fame.
Paleontology & Fossils
Mar 5, 2020
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