Ocean deoxygenation during the Mesozoic Era was much more rapid than previous thought, with CO2 induced environmental warming creating ocean 'dead zones' over timescales of only tens of thousands of years.
Earth Sciences
Aug 23, 2021
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During the Early Cretaceous period, 110 million to 107 million years ago, Australia was much further south than it is today. Yet fossils from several sites on the Otway Coast in Victoria show dinosaurs were common in the ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Aug 20, 2021
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China and Canada has identified a turtle egg fossil from the Cretaceous period that contains an embryo. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society ...
Illustrations depicting the dinosaur era—whether in books or movies—are often accompanied by lush greenery. During the Cretaceous period, the trees commonly dominating a wide range of Earth's terrestrial environments ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 3, 2021
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Scientists have found an unexplained cache of fossilized shark teeth in an area where there should be none—in a 2900 year old site in the City of David in Jerusalem. This is at least 80 km from where these fossils would ...
Archaeology
Jul 4, 2021
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Paleoclimatologist Niels de Winter and colleagues developed an innovative way to use the clumped isotope method to reconstruct climate in the geological past on the seasonal scale. They show that dinosaurs had to deal with ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 10, 2021
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The evolution of ankle and foot bones into different shapes and sizes helped mammals adapt and thrive after the extinction of the dinosaurs, a study suggests.
Evolution
May 13, 2021
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The bulging, equator-belted midsection of Earth currently teems with a greater diversity of life than anywhere else—a biodiversity that generally wanes when moving from the tropics to the mid-latitudes and the mid-latitudes ...
Evolution
May 6, 2021
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Relatives of the giant crocodile might have been kings of the waterways during the Cretaceous period, eating anything—including dinosaurs—that got a little too close to the water's edge, but the largest of these apex ...
Plants & Animals
May 4, 2021
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An international team of paleontologists has identified a new genus and species of hadrosaur or duck-billed dinosaur, Yamatosaurus izanagii, on one of Japan's southern islands.
Paleontology & Fossils
Apr 27, 2021
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