Tag Archives: Paleontology

[ad_1] IMAGE: Artistic reconstruction of briggsi ‘Anomalocaris’ swimming in the twilight zone. View More Credit: Katrina Kenny According to new research published today, ancient deep-sea creatures called radiodont had an incredible vision that likely led an evolutionary arms race. The international study, led by Professor John Paterson of the University …

[ad_1] A nearly 40-million-year-old skeleton belonging to what is commonly called a saber-toothed tiger will go under the hammer next week in Geneva, a year after its discovery on an American ranch. The skeleton, about 120 centimeters long, is expected to raise between 60,000 and 80,000 Swiss francs ($ 66,560 …

[ad_1] IMAGE: Paleontologist Tom Cullen cuts the T. rex femur in SUE to find out how T. rex grew. View More Credit: © David Evans Tyrannosaurus Rex it was one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs of all time: it measured up to 42 feet in length from snout to tail …

[ad_1] Most people know that terrestrial dinosaurs were wiped out some 66 million years ago when an asteroid roughly twice the diameter of Paris crashed into Earth. If the explosive fireball didn’t catch them, the dip in global temperature on a planet with little or no ice – caused by …

[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] IMAGE: View of the reconstruction of the life of Cambaytherium (illustration by Elaine Kasmer) More Credit: Elaine Kasmer New research published today on Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology describes a fossil family that sheds light on the origin of the perissodactyls, the group of mammals that includes horses, rhinos and …

[ad_1] GAINESVILLE, Florida — Fossils of bizarre armored amphibians known as albanerpetontids provide the earliest evidence of a slingshot-style language, new Science study shows. Despite having lizard-like claws, scales and tails, albanerpetontids – mercifully called “albies” for short – were amphibians, not reptiles. Their lineage was different from today’s frogs, …

[ad_1] Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence of a “sling” language in 99-million-year-old amphibian fossils. The armored prehistoric creatures, known as albanerpetontids, were predators sitting and waiting for them to grab their prey with a bullet of their “ballistic tongues”. Although they had lizard-like claws, scales and tails, analysis indicates …

[ad_1] The first fossils of a duck-billed dinosaur were discovered in Africa, which means that the dinosaurs must have crossed miles of open water to get there. Ajnabia odysseus was found in Morocco and dates back to the late Cretaceous, 66 million years ago. Ajnabia was a member of the …

[ad_1] Pterosaurs, like the pterodactyl, are some of the largest animals to ever take flight, but one study suggests that early aviator reptiles were clumsy flying, only capable of traveling short distances. Research may also shed new light on the evolution of flight more generally. Pterosaurs evolved about 245 million …