PALEONTOLOGY

Do some mysterious bones belong to gigantic ichthyosaurs?

PALEONTOLOGY
Several similar large, fossilized bone fragments have been discovered in various regions across Western and Central Europe since the 19th century. The animal group...

Fossilized dinosaur eggshells can preserve amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, over millions of years

PALEONTOLOGY
As a scientist, lab work can sometimes get monotonous. But in 2017, while a Ph.D. student of paleobiology at the University of Bristol in...

Dinosaur study challenges Bergmann’s rule

PALEONTOLOGY
When you throw dinosaurs into the mix, sometimes you find that a rule simply isn't. A new study led by scientists at the University of...

New fossil dolphin identified

PALEONTOLOGY
University of Otago researchers have formally identified and named a fossil dolphin which they discovered has a unique feeding method. A paper published in the Journal of the...

Early dinosaurs grew up fast, but fossil analysis suggests they weren’t the only ones

PALEONTOLOGY
The earliest dinosaurs had rapid growth rates, but so did many of the other animals living alongside them, according to a study published in...

Scientists confirm that methane-processing microbes produce a fossil record

PALEONTOLOGY
Communities of microbes that live in ocean sediments can consume methane. In oxygen-deprived sediments these microbes form clusters, called aggregates, that can have deposits...

New research helps paleontologists to understand horse fossils and those that are missing from the record

PALEONTOLOGY
Many people assume that horses first came to the Americas when Spanish explorers brought them here about 500 years ago. In fact, recent research...

Scientists discover endoparasitic marine tapeworm trapped in Cretaceous amber

PALEONTOLOGY
Cestoda, commonly known as tapeworms, is a large class within the platyhelminth phylum with about 5,000 species described so far. Recently, researchers from the...

In paleontology, correct names are keys to accurate study

PALEONTOLOGY
When the skeletal remains of a giant ground sloth were first unearthed in 1796, the discovery marked one of the earliest paleontological finds in...

Research shows that five three-horned dinosaurs lived, and died, together

PALEONTOLOGY
A team from Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands was looking for a Tyrannosaurus in the summer of 2013 in Wyoming. Instead, they found...

Duckbill dinosaur discovery in Morocco: Expert unpacks the mystery of how they got there

PALEONTOLOGY
Why are fossils of duckbill dinosaurs, a North American family, found in North Africa? Dinosaurs couldn't just walk there. Sixty-six million years ago, when duckbills suddenly...

Research uncovers a rare resin fossil find: A spider that aspires to be an ant

PALEONTOLOGY
Arachnophobia can make humans flee at the sight of a brown recluse, black widow or even a daddy long legs, but animal predators of...
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