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France finds smuggled dinosaur teeth in parcels bound for Italy
French customs officers seized nine dinosaur teeth last month from a courier truck transiting through the country from Spain on its way to Italy, they said on Friday.
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Underwater fossil bed discovered by collectors preserves rare slice of Florida's past
About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida's Big Bend region and died. The sinkhole filled in with sediment over time, preserving the animals where they lay until ...
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Feb 12, 2025
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China Jurassic fossil discovery sheds light on bird origin
A research team led by Professor Wang Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered two bird fossils in Jurassic-era rocks from Fujian Province ...
Evolution
Feb 12, 2025
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The 3,000-year coral reef shutdown: A mysterious pause and a remarkable recovery
A new study led by Prof. Adi Torfstein from the Hebrew University and Prof. Oren Levy from Bar-Ilan University, in collaboration with an international team of researchers, has uncovered a significant pause in coral reef growth ...
Ecology
Feb 12, 2025
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Global warming and mass extinctions: What we can learn from plants from the last ice age
Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750—twice the number of animal species lost. But which species are hit hardest? And how ...
Ecology
Feb 12, 2025
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Trace fossils reveal clues to evolution of tiny organisms in deep marine ecosystems
Dr. Luis Buatois (Ph.D.) traces a series of hexagons with his finger, following the path carved by tiny organisms millions of years ago that have long since left these unique fossils in their wake.
Evolution
Feb 11, 2025
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Moa extinction: Human colonization sealed fate of New Zealand's giants, study shows
New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's giant flightless bird, the moa.
Ecology
Feb 11, 2025
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Ancient pterosaur bones could inspire the future of aerospace engineering
The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could hold the key to lighter, stronger materials for the next generation of aircraft, new research has found.
Biotechnology
Feb 11, 2025
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Museum fossils go to space
The recent launch of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket marked several historic milestones. The 21-year-old crew member Karsen Kitchen set a record for the youngest woman to cross the Kármán line, the boundary 62 miles overhead ...
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Feb 11, 2025
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Age and burial environment don't hinder soft tissue preservation in dinosaurs, study suggests
Soft tissue preservation in fossils does not seem to depend upon the species, age or burial environment of the fossils in question, according to new research from North Carolina State University. The work, published in Scientific ...
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Feb 10, 2025
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Soft tissue of a plesiosaur reveals it had scales similar to those of sea turtles
A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of plesiosaur had scales on its flippers similar to modern sea turtle species. For their study, published ...

How a student's teenage curiosity led to the first megalodon discovery in Canada
Louis-Philippe Bateman's fascination with megalodon began with a single sentence in a book about Canada's geological evolution. It described giant, mysterious fossilized shark teeth discovered in the 1960s by fishermen dredging ...
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Feb 6, 2025
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Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird
Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ancestors of today's waterfowl, ...
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Feb 5, 2025
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Fossils show leaf-eating insects tracked gum trees for millions of years
How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to researchers at Penn State who found insect damage on fossil leaves from South America that is nearly identical ...
Evolution
Feb 4, 2025
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Prague museum to host first European display of 3.18 million year old Lucy
The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18 million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe for the first time in Prague this year, the Czech premier said Tuesday.
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Feb 4, 2025
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Fossil shark teeth are abundant and can date the past in a unique way
The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand how coastal environments evolved in ancient times, according to our newly published work in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
Evolution
Feb 3, 2025
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New genus and species within Ornithomimidae dinosaur family identified in Mexico
A team of geologists, paleontologists, and climate scientists with members from institutions in Mexico, the U.S., and Spain has identified a new genus and species within the Ornithomimidae family. In their paper published ...

Discovery of collagen in fossil bone could unlock new insights into dinosaurs
For many years, it was widely believed that fossils no longer contained any original organic molecules as the fossilization process was thought to destroy them.
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Jan 31, 2025
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Global warming offers mixed blessings for ancient ocean predators, paleobiologists suggest
Sharks and rays have populated the world's oceans for around 450 million years, but more than a third of the species living today are severely threatened by overfishing and the loss of their habitat.
Ecology
Jan 30, 2025
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How we uncovered the UK's biggest site of dinosaur tracks in a quarry in Oxfordshire
In 2024, researchers from the universities of Oxford and Birmingham excavated a huge expanse of a quarry floor in Oxfordshire filled with hundreds of dinosaur footprints.
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Jan 23, 2025
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