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This 307-Million-Year-Old Animal May Have Been One of the First Plant Eaters
58+ min ago (774+ words) Learn more about Tyrannoroter heberti, a football-shaped land vertebrate who may have enjoyed snacking on plants. A 307-million-year-old football-sized creature may be one of the earliest land vertebrates to have eaten plants. While plant-eating animals are overly abundant today, that…...
Ancient sharks once swam in this landlocked state
4+ hour, 7+ min ago (467+ words) Andrew Paul is Popular Science's staff writer focused primarily on tech, AI, physics, and culture news. He was previously a regular contributor to The A.V. Club and Input, and has been featured by Rolling Stone, Fangoria, GQ, Slate, NBC, McSweeney's Internet…...
Dinosaurs on the move at Field Station: Dinosaurs
4+ hour, 23+ min ago (59+ words) Dinosaurs on the move at Field Station: Dinosaurs'KWCH Dinosaurs on the move at Field Station: Dinosaurs Improvements coming to the Redbud Trail in Wichita Wichita area roofer fined and banned from doing work Special veteran grave markers stolen from Hesston…...
Football-Sized Fossil Creature May Have Been One Of The First Land Animals To Eat Its Veggies
4+ hour, 34+ min ago (453+ words) A reconstruction of Tyrannoroter heberti, eating a fern. Illustration by Hannah Fredd "This is one of the oldest known four-legged animals to eat its veggies," says Arjan Mann, assistant curator of fossil fishes and early tetrapods at the Field Museum…...
Citizen scientists work on 100-million-year-old ichthyosaur fossil in Winton
5+ hour, 32+ min ago (692+ words) Jon Hawkhead sits in an outback shed with a small drill in hand as he meticulously works to remove tiny fragments of rock from a 100-million-year-old fossil. A vacuum sucks up each splinter of rock to painstakingly expose a skeleton…...
Citizen scientists work on 100-million-year-old fossil in outback Queensland
6+ hour, 57+ min ago (854+ words) Volunteers were given power tools to clean the 100-million-year-old fossil." (ABC Western Qld: Jay Carstens) People have travelled from across the country and the world to work on a 100-million-year-old fossil. A recent cancer survivor who drove solo from Western…...
The billion-dollar case for sustaining palaeontology’s digital databases - Nature Ecology & Evolution
7+ hour, 29+ min ago (1714+ words) Nature Ecology & Evolution (2026)Cite this article We present here a series of actionable recommendations to address the existing structural and community challenges within the palaeontological and Earth science data landscape (Table 2). To address data fragmentation and structural redundancy in databasing…...
Canadian fossil reveals one of the first plant-eating animals
7+ hour, 33+ min ago (641+ words) Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature dating to about 307 million years ago that is one of the oldest-known plant-eating land vertebrates, representing a pivotal juncture in animal evolution. The creature,…...
Microbial Communities Of Selected Regions Of The Deep Springs Lake Aquifer System
8+ hour, 21+ min ago (175+ words) Microbial Communities Of Selected Regions Of The Deep Springs Lake Aquifer System'astrobiology.com Microbial Communities Of Selected Regions Of The Deep Springs Lake Aquifer System Deep Springs Lake is a small, isolated, highly alkaline soda lake in Inyo County of…...
Spinosaurus Was the First Dinosaur That Loved Water
8+ hour, 41+ min ago (1177+ words) Chris is the co-founder of 'Animals Around The Globe' and a fervent wildlife enthusiast with extensive travels across diverse ecosystems worldwide. From exploring the marine wonders in the Azores and witnessing the vast savannas of Kenya, to delving deep into…...