Scientists have discovered the world's oldest "comma" shrimp, a tiny crustacean shaped like its punctuation namesake.
Plants & Animals
Nov 27, 2019
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2035
A 91-million-year-old fossil shark newly named Cretodus houghtonorum discovered in Kansas joins a list of large dinosaur-era animals. Preserved in sediments deposited in an ancient ocean called the Western Interior Seaway ...
Archaeology
Nov 18, 2019
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Parasitic flukes have been a leading source of food-borne infections, sparking fear and wreaking havoc on human public health, and contributed to more than 3 billion in animal agricultural losses per year in the U.S. alone.
Evolution
Oct 2, 2019
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6
A newly identified species of pterosaur is among the largest ever flying animals, according to a new study from Queen Mary University of London.
Archaeology
Sep 9, 2019
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860
The dinosaur, whose nearly complete skeleton was unearthed from 72 million year old marine deposits in Mukawa Town in northern Japan, belongs to a new genus and species of a herbivorous hadrosaurid dinosaur, according to ...
Archaeology
Sep 5, 2019
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1057
New research by a University of Bristol palaeontology post-graduate student has revealed fresh insights into how the braincase of the dinosaur Psittacosaurus developed and how this tells us about its posture.
Archaeology
Aug 15, 2019
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142
The discovery of fossilized plants in Labrador, Canada, by a team of McGill directed paleontologists provides the first quantitative estimate of the area's climate during the Cretaceous period, a time when the earth was dominated ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Aug 2, 2019
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672
Paleontologists are trying to dispel a myth about what life was like when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. The false narrative has wormed its way into books, lectures and even scientific papers about this long-ago era.
Plants & Animals
Jun 21, 2019
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5
One researcher at the University of Tokyo is in hot pursuit of dinosaurs, tracking extinct species around ancient Earth. Identifying the movements of extinct species from millions of years ago can provide insights into ancient ...
Other
May 31, 2019
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4
A new relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex—much smaller than the huge, ferocious dinonsaur made famous in countless books and films, including, yes, "Jurassic Park—has been discovered and named by a Virginia Tech paleontologist ...
Archaeology
May 6, 2019
1
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