Australia's only vulture, and a fearsome extinct eagle, are among the earliest recorded birds of prey from the Pleistocene period more than 50,000 years ago—and now Flinders University researchers are bringing them to life ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Nov 16, 2023
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Researchers from the Netherlands have created a new approach to envision how dinosaurs walked. By modeling a T. rex tail as a suspension bridge, the scientists formed a new idea of the animal's walking speed. Trix, the tyrannosaur ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Apr 20, 2021
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Paleontologists in Portugal have unearthed the fossilized skeleton of what could be the largest dinosaur ever found in Europe.
Paleontology & Fossils
Aug 29, 2022
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An international research team led by the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) and the Museu Balear de Ciències Naturals (MUCBO | MBCN) have described a fossil animal that lived between 270 and 280 million ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Dec 17, 2024
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In a new 3D modeling study published this week in Science Advances, we show that the giant extinct shark, Otodus megalodon, was a true globetrotting super-predator.
Paleontology & Fossils
Aug 21, 2022
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A new dinosaur which formed part of an array of 'unusual' creatures has been discovered in Argentina.
Paleontology & Fossils
Feb 18, 2022
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Researchers have discovered a 380-million-year-old heart—the oldest ever found—alongside a separate fossilized stomach, intestine and liver in an ancient jawed fish, shedding new light on the evolution of our own bodies.
Evolution
Sep 15, 2022
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Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ergaster, a direct ancestor of modern people. Fossils of Paranthropus robustus are found in abundance ...
Evolution
Mar 5, 2025
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Environmental evidence of the very first experiments in the evolution of complex life on Earth, has been uncovered by an international team of scientists.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 29, 2024
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Kilat, the largest living lizard at the Toronto Metro Zoo, like other members of his species (Varanus komodoensis), truly deserves to be called the Komodo dragon. His impressive size and the way he looks at you and tracks ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 7, 2024
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