An Arizona museum tells the stories of ancient animals through their fossilized poop
One way to help tell how a Tyrannosaurus rex digested food is to look at its poop.
One way to help tell how a Tyrannosaurus rex digested food is to look at its poop.
Paleontology & Fossils
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If you've ever snacked on raisins or enjoyed a glass of wine, you may, in part, have the extinction of the dinosaurs to thank for it. In a discovery described in the journal Nature Plants, researchers found fossil grape seeds ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 1, 2024
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Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional trilobite fossils ever discovered. The fossils, which are more than 500 million years old, were collected in the High Atlas of Morocco and are being ...
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For a billion years, single-celled eukaryotes ruled the planet. Then around 700 million years ago during Snowball Earth—a geologic era when glaciers may have stretched as far as the Equator—a new creature burst into existence: ...
Evolution
Jun 27, 2024
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Ammonites were not in decline before their extinction, scientists have found.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 27, 2024
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New research by Swansea University and the University of Zurich has found that sharks retained high levels of functional diversity for most of the last 66 million years, before steadily declining over the last 10 million ...
Ecology
Jun 14, 2024
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Paleontologists from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), the University of Edinburgh (UK), the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (Brazil), and the University of Toronto in (Canada) have shown that ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 14, 2024
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Gobies or Gobioidei are one of the most species-rich groups of marine and freshwater fish in Europe. Spending most of their lives on the bottom of shallow waterbodies, they make substantial contributions to the functioning ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 13, 2024
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Until about 45,000 years ago, Australia was home to a giant flightless bird called Genyornis newtoni, which was 2 meters tall and weighed up to 230 kilograms.
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 8, 2024
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Humanity is ignoring major planetary vital signs as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels soar to all-time highs and Earth records its 12th consecutive month of record-breaking heat, international climate officials warned this ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 6, 2024
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