PALEONTOLOGY

Dinosaurs survived when CO2 was extremely high. Why can’t humans?

PALEONTOLOGY
How did plants and animals survive around 200 million years ago when the carbon dioxide concentration went up to 6,000 parts per million? Paul...

Prehistoric podiatry: How dinos carried their enormous weight

PALEONTOLOGY
Scientists have cracked an enduring mystery, discovering how sauropod dinosaurs — like Brontosaurus and Diplodocus — supported their gigantic bodies on land. A University of...

Crucial evidence explains anomalously fast convergence between India and Asia in Mesozoic

PALEONTOLOGY
Closure of the Neo-Tethys Ocean and the subsequent formation of the Tibetan Plateau is one of the most significant tectonic events on Earth. How...

Dinosaurs evolved different eye socket shapes to allow stronger bites

PALEONTOLOGY
Large dinosaur predators, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, evolved different shapes of eye sockets to better deal with high bite forces, new research has shown. While...

Fossils of giant sea lizard that ruled the oceans 66 million years ago discovered

PALEONTOLOGY
Researchers have discovered a huge new mosasaur from Morocco, named Thalassotitan atrox, which filled the apex predator niche. With massive jaws and teeth like...

More than one asteroid could have spelled doom for the dinosaurs

PALEONTOLOGY
A newly discovered impact crater below the seafloor hints at the possibility that more than one asteroid hit Earth during the time when dinosaurs...

Research team confirms icy conditions existed in South Pole region during Late Cretaceous period

PALEONTOLOGY
Let's pretend it's the Late Cretaceous, roughly 66 to 100 million years ago. We've got dinosaurs roaming the land and odd-looking early species of...

More than one asteroid could have spelled doom for the dinosaurs

EARTH
A newly discovered impact crater below the seafloor hints at the possibility that more than one asteroid hit Earth during the time when dinosaurs...

The speed at which spinosaurid dinosaur teeth were replaced accounts for their overabundance in Cretaceous sites

PALEONTOLOGY
This has been confirmed in the article ‘New contributions to the skull anatomy of spinosaurid theropods: Baryonychinae maxilla from the Early Cretaceous of Igea...

Prehistoric podiatry: How dinos carried their enormous weight

PALEONTOLOGY
Scientists have cracked an enduring mystery, discovering how sauropod dinosaurs — like Brontosaurus and Diplodocus — supported their gigantic bodies on land. A University of...

Revealing the salty secrets of the biggest environmental shift since dinosaurs

PALEONTOLOGY
A new Nature Geoscience study from The Australian National University (ANU) offers further clues about what happened to the Mediterranean during a tumultuous period...

100 million-year-old dinosaur footprints found at restaurant in China

PALEONTOLOGY
Dinosaur footprints dating back 100 million years have been discovered in southwestern China after a sharp-eyed diner spotted them in a restaurant's outdoor courtyard. Several stone pits...
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