Tag Archives: Fossils

[ad_1] Everywhere we look in the natural world, there is evidence of natural selection: the resin armor of a lodgepole pine cone evolved to defend itself against seed-hungry birds and squirrels, or a giraffe’s long neck was evolutionarily favored to reach high vegetation that the competition cannot touch. Natural selection …

[ad_1] Kirsten Siebach has to persevere a little longer, waiting for her ship to arrive. That ship is in space and is carrying a rover called Perseverance to Mars. And Siebach, a Martian geologist at Rice University, is now one of 13 scientists recently selected by NASA to help run …

[ad_1] In the Pleistocene era, the big cat Smilodon they roamed parts of the Americas, using blade-like teeth and ambushing to take down the megafauna. Of Fernando G. Baptista is Patricia Healy PUBLISHED November 30, 2020 A version of this story appears in the December 2020 issue of National Geographic …

[ad_1] The only dinosaur bones ever found on the island of Ireland have been formally confirmed for the first time by a team of experts from the University of Portsmouth and Queen’s University of Belfast, led by Dr Mike Simms, curator and paleontologist of the National Museums NI. The two …

[ad_1] Two teams of scientists have resolved a longstanding controversy over the origins of complex life on Earth. The joint studies found that molecular fossils extracted from 635-million-year-old rocks are not the earliest evidence of animals, but instead common algae. Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU), Max Planck Institute …

[ad_1] A fossil that had been languishing in a museum drawer in Brighton, wrongly labeled as a shark fin skeleton, has now been identified as an entirely new species of prehistoric flying reptile that soared majestically over what are now marshes of the Cambridgeshire. Roy Smith, a PhD student at …

[ad_1] Scientists have evaluated over 350 fossils of hoofed mammals – a group that includes horses, rhinos and tapirs – and suggest they may have originated in or near present-day India. The 15-year study, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, puts together a nearly complete picture of the skeletal …

[ad_1] The image shows a bone. (Representative Image) (Unsplash) Scientists have evaluated over 350 fossils of hoofed mammals – a group that includes horses, rhinos and tapirs – and suggest they may have originated in or near present-day India. The 15-year study, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, puts …

[ad_1] While many dinosaur babies looked wildly different from their parents, German researchers found that some species actually looked like small copies of the adults. Paleontologists from the University of Bonn made the discovery while examining the skeleton of a young Plateosaurus. The almost complete skeleton, nicknamed “Fabian”, was found …

[ad_1] An international team of scientists says dinosaurs were able to migrate across the oceans. This extraordinary claim was based on the discovery of new duck-billed dinosaur fossils unearthed in Morocco. Duck-billed dinosaurs were a diverse group of herbivores that grew up to 15 meters (49 feet) in length. The …