Fossil ankles indicate Earth's earliest primates lived in trees
Earth's earliest primates have taken a step up in the world, now that researchers have gotten a good look at their ankles.
Earth's earliest primates have taken a step up in the world, now that researchers have gotten a good look at their ankles.
Archaeology
Jan 19, 2015
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Almost all natural history museums and recognised public collections of fossils have in the past relied on finds purchased from private collectors, and many still do. But the role of amateur fossil collectors, how their finds ...
Archaeology
Jan 6, 2015
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(Phys.org) —A palaeontologist from our University studying fossils that were kept in a museum in Canada for over 75 years has discovered a new species of dinosaur.
Archaeology
Nov 26, 2014
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(Phys.org) —About 210 million years ago when the supercontinent of Pangea was starting to break up and dog-sized dinosaurs were hiding from nearly everything, entirely different kinds of reptiles called phytosaurs and rauisuchids ...
Archaeology
Sep 29, 2014
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Many native species have vanished from tropical islands because of human impact, but University of Florida scientists have discovered how fossils can be used to restore lost biodiversity.
Paleontology & Fossils
Sep 22, 2014
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Rangers are searching for leads after someone damaged a fossil at Dinosaur National Monument along the Utah-Colorado line.
Archaeology
Sep 7, 2014
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Scientists have used state-of-the-art imaging techniques to examine the cracks, fractures and breaks in the bones of a 150 million-year-old predatory dinosaur.
Archaeology
May 6, 2014
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A broken fossil turtle bone discovered by an amateur paleontologist in 2012 turned out to be the missing half of a bone first described in 1849. The surprising puzzle discovery has led paleontologists from the Academy of ...
Archaeology
Mar 25, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers from the Sorbonne Universités have found evidence of an ancient sloth returning to the sea to survive. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, ...
The impact of European settlement on Australia was so massive that many mammals disappeared before anyone noticed they were there, but fossils from the past 10,000 years offer excellent evidence of pre-European fauna.
Ecology
Jan 28, 2014
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