Rapidly evolving species more likely to go extinct, study suggests
Researchers at the University of Bristol have found that fast evolution can lead to nowhere.
Evolution
Nov 10, 2021
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Palaeontology
Discriminating diets of meat-eating dinosaurs
A big problem with dinosaurs is that there seem to be too many meat-eaters. From studies of modern animals, there is a feeding pyramid, with plants at the bottom, then plant-eaters, and then meat-eaters at the top.
Archaeology
Nov 4, 2019
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Creating 'synthetic' fossils in the lab sheds light on fossilization processes
A newly published experimental protocol, involving University of Bristol scientists, could change the way fossilisation is studied.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 25, 2018
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451
Rotting fish help solve mystery of how soft tissue fossils form
New research at the University of Leicester has transformed scientists' understanding of how spectacular fossils with delicate soft tissues form.
Paleontology & Fossils
Aug 8, 2022
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246
'Tully monster' mystery is far from solved, group argues
Last year, headlines in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American and other outlets declared that a decades-old paleontological mystery had been solved. The "Tully monster," an ancient animal that had long defied ...
Archaeology
Feb 20, 2017
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Collision of prehistoric continents 'cooked' the bones of ancient amphibians, say researchers
Scientists have solved a decades-long mystery as to why ancient tetrapods—amphibian-like creatures that lived over 300 million years ago—preserved in one of Ireland's most important fossil sites seemingly had their bones ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Dec 7, 2022
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Scientists cite evidence that mosasaurs were warm-blooded
Mosasaurs – an extinct group of aquatic reptiles that thrived during the Late Cretaceous period – possibly were "endotherms," or warm-blooded creatures, a paper co-written by a University of Alabama professor suggests.
Archaeology
May 10, 2016
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Synchrotron X-ray sheds light on some of the world's oldest dinosaur eggs
An international team of scientists led by the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa has produced highly detailed reproductions of the skulls of some of the oldest known dinosaur embryos in 3-D, using powerful and ...
Archaeology
Apr 9, 2020
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Brain of ancient sea creature reconstructed by undergraduate researcher
The world's first study into the brain anatomy of an ichthyosaur, a marine reptile that lived at the same time as the dinosaurs, has shed light on how the reptilian brain adapted to life in the oceans. The work, led by University ...
Archaeology
Jun 12, 2015
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Size not important for fish in the largest mass extinction of all time
Understanding modern biodiversity and extinction threats is important. It is commonly assumed that being large contributes to vulnerability during extinction crises.
Archaeology
Jun 30, 2017
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