Neanderthal DNA could be the cause of some modern brain malformations
If you regularly experience headaches, dizziness, balance problems and blurred vision, our Neanderthal cousins could be to blame.
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380-million-year-old lungfish jawbones reveal ancient eating habits of Earth's first land animals
Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of mammals—including new research into the eating habits of lobe-finned fish which inhabited an ancient ...
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Re-examination of Manitoba fossil leads to naming of new genus of placoderm fish
Manitoba is well-known for its fossil record, including the fossil-filled, world-famous Ordovician-aged Tyndall Stone and the world's largest mosasaurs, or marine reptiles, from the Cretaceous period. However, there are other ...
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North America's oldest known pterosaur unearthed in Petrified Forest National Park
A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight.
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Synchrotron X-rays reveal how T. rex bones may have healed after injuries
A University of Regina research team has made discoveries about how dinosaurs may have healed from injuries when they examined the preserved blood vessel structures inside a rib bone from Scotty, the famous Tyrannosaurus ...
Biotechnology
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Why are we so obsessed with bringing back the wooly mammoth?
In just the last several months, de-extinction—bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble them—has moved closer from science fiction to science fact. Colossal Biosciences—an American ...
Biotechnology
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Jurassic fish choked to death on squid-like cephalopods, fossil study reveals
A study by Dr. Martin Ebert and Dr. Martina Kölbl-Ebert examined the remains of some 4,200 Tharsis fossil specimens. They found that some of these fish, all of which were subadults, would occasionally attempt to or accidentally ...
Two sides of the same fossil: The story of a small arboreal reptile from the Jurassic period
Paleontologists have identified a new ancient reptile from the Solnhofen limestone slabs, thanks to a chance discovery. A Ph.D. student recently found the counterpart of the original fossil at the Natural History Museum in ...
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Shaped by paleogeography: A new world map of marine mollusks
Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a major role in this. The ...
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Eggs en Provence: France's unique dinosaur egg trove
At the foot of Sainte Victoire, the mountain in Provence immortalized by Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne, a paleontologist brushes meticulously through a mound of red clay looking for fossils.
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