Paleontologists Classify Mysterious Ancient Cone-Shaped Sea Creatures
One branch on the tree of life is a bit more crowded today. A team of scientists led by 20-year-old University of Toronto (U of T) undergra...Read More
Showing posts with label Paleontology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paleontology. Show all posts
Study Sheds New Light on Peopling of Tibet
A new analysis of Chusang, an archeological site on the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau, suggests that permanent residents may have set up ca...Read More
280 million-year-old fossil reveals origins of chimaeroid fishes
High-definition CT scans of the fossilized skull of a 280 million-year-old fish reveal the origin of chimaeras, a group of cartilaginous fi...Read More
Evolution of Brain and Tooth Size Were Not Linked in Humans
A new study from the George Washington University’s Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology (CASHP) found that whereas brain si...Read More
Terrestrial Mesozoic Ninja Turtles
Turtles are an incredible evolutionary success story, with about 350 extant species that inhabit all major oceans and landmasses and from t...Read More
'Lucy' Species May Have Been Paleoanthropology
Australopithecus afarensis, humanity's ancient relative famously represented by the fossils of the 3.2 million year old Lucy, was a p...Read More
Fish fossil hunter poles apart
It’s a white Christmas with a difference for an international gang of scientists heading from McMurdo Base to the Transantarctic Mountains...Read More
Benign 'Toothlet' Tumor Found in 255 Million-Year-Old Fossil
A fossil of a distant ancestor of today's mammals -- which include humans -- shows evidence of a benign tumor of the jaw, scientists r...Read More
Longest-Living Animal Gives Up Ocean Climate Secrets
A study of the longest-living animal on Earth, the quahog clam, has provided researchers with an unprecedented insight into the history of...Read More
How much carbon and nitrogen is there on planet Earth?
Carbon and nitrogen are central to life on Earth – life cannot exist without them, but an overabundance in the atmosphere imperils the lif...Read More
Detection Of Fossil Genome
Published today in the open-access journal GigaScience, is an article that presents the genome sequence of Ginkgo biloba, the oldest extan...Read More
Herbivorous Mammals Have Bigger Bellies
As an international study conducted by the University of Zurich based on 3D reconstructions of animal skeletons reveals for the first time...Read More
KERATIN: Old Bird Fossil After 130 Million Years
New research from North Carolina State University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Linyi University has found evidence of original ker...Read More
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