What caused this megatooth shark's massive toothache?
Did the world's largest prehistoric shark need an orthodontist, or did it just have a bad lunch?
Did the world's largest prehistoric shark need an orthodontist, or did it just have a bad lunch?
Paleontology & Fossils
May 12, 2022
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The fossilized remains of Chile's first complete ichthyosaur have been unearthed from a melting glacier deep in the Patagonia area of the South American country.
Paleontology & Fossils
May 10, 2022
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Fossils can tell scientists a lot about an animal such as their morphology, their environment, and where to place them in the tree of life. One thing though that's very difficult to observe in the fossil record is an animal's ...
Paleontology & Fossils
May 6, 2022
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As greenhouse gas emissions continue to warm the world's oceans, marine biodiversity could be on track to plummet within the next few centuries to levels not seen since the extinction of the dinosaurs, according to a recent ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 28, 2022
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It's around this time every year that we start to remember the existence of pollen, the microscopic reproductive cells of cone-bearing and flowering plants. Airborne pollen may induce annoying congestion for some, but a new ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Apr 22, 2022
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The U-shaped relationship between diet and size in modern land mammals could also stand for "universal," says a new study, which has found that the relationship spans at least 66 million years and a range of vertebrate animal ...
Ecology
Apr 21, 2022
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An analysis of more than 70,000 fossils indicates that mollusk communities were incredibly resilient to major climatic shifts during the last ice age.
Plants & Animals
Apr 18, 2022
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Giant crocodiles once roamed northeastern British Columbia. A recently published article in Historical Biology features the first detailed trace fossil evidence ever reported of giant crocodilians. The sites are from the ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Apr 1, 2022
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Oxygen levels in the atmosphere during the mid-Proterozoic—about 1.4 billion years ago—were higher than previously thought, according to an international team of researchers who looked at oxygen combined with sulfur to ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 25, 2022
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Spinosaurus is the biggest carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered—even bigger than T. rex—but the way it hunted has been a subject of debate for decades. It's hard to guess the behavior of an animal that we only know from ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Mar 23, 2022
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