Tag: fossils

Understanding how gold forms is crucial for knowing where to find it and how to extract it sustainably. McGill researchers have answered a long-standing question in geology that could lead to new ore discoveries. Researchers traveled to...
Earth system models (ESMs) help us understand climate and environmental changes. With advances in computing power, ESMs can now be run at kilometer-scale (k-scale) resolutions, capturing very fine details to better predict extreme weather and understand...

New study finds dinosaur fossils did not inspire the mythological griffin

A popular and widely-promoted claim that dinosaur fossils inspired the legend of the griffin, the mythological creature with a raptorial bird head and wings...

New fossils show what Australia’s giant prehistoric ‘thunder birds’ looked like

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...

Is it a bird or a dinosaur? Fossils from Teylers Museum in Netherlands secretly visit UK’s synchrotron

The feathered limbs, sharp teeth and claws of the oldest known bird-like dinosaurs, the Archaeopteryx have fascinated naturalists and paleontologists including Charles Lyell and...

From fossils to fuel: Energy potential of Mozambique’s Maniamba Basin

In the ever-expanding search for energy resources, a new study has emerged from Mozambique's Maniamba Basin. A team led by Nelson Nhamutole, a Ph.D....

Exceptionally well-preserved shark fossils from the time of the dinosaurs identified in Mexico

An international team of archaeologists, paleontologists, evolutionists and geoscientists has analyzed ancient shark fossils from the time of the dinosaurs that were recently unearthed...

Africa is full of bats, but their fossils are scarce—why these rare records matter

Africa is home to more than 20% of the world's bat population. There are more than 200 species to be found on the continent....

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

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

‘Frozen behaviors’ in amber fossils: How to reconstruct mating behavior of long-extinct termites

Approximately 38 million years ago two termites were in the middle of courtship behavior when they got entrapped by tree resin and preserved in...

Earth’s earliest forest revealed in Somerset fossils

Scientists have discovered remnants of the Earth's oldest fossil forest on the north coast of Devon and Somerset in the U.K. The trees, which...

Fossils of giant sea lizard with dagger-like teeth show how our oceans have fundamentally changed since the dinosaur era

Paleontologists have discovered a strange new species of marine lizard with dagger-like teeth that lived near the end of the age of dinosaurs. Their...

Juvenile ‘T. rex’ fossils belong to a distinct tyrannosaur species

A groundbreaking study reevaluates previously identified juvenile T. rex fossils, uncovering they were actually adult specimens of a distinct, smaller tyrannosaur species, Nanotyrannus lancensis. This species, initially...

The first Miocene fossils from coastal woodlands in the southern East African Rift

An international team, with participation by the Geochronology and Geology Program of the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), has published...

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