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Fossil insect reveals earliest known mimicry of flowering plants 99 million years ago
46+ min ago (156+ words) EIN Presswire There were 1,375 press releases posted in the last 24 hours and 480,849 in the last 365 days. Fossil insect reveals earliest known mimicry of flowering plants 99 million years ago Reconstruction of the fossil moth lacewing Dryadithone cretacea, preserved in approximately 99-million-year-old…...
A rare 3-D snake fossil is ssspilling sssecrets of its unusual lifestyle
46+ min ago (451+ words) A newfound species of ancient snake, named Tametara mirim (illustrated), would have lived alongside ancient birds and sauropod dinosaurs 85 million years ago in what is now Brazil. Most snake fossils are two-dimensional. Sandwiched within rocks, the pressure of millions of…...
News - Darkened ancient pollen and spores reveal prehistoric wildfires fuelled by climate change
2+ hour, 40+ min ago (184+ words) Analysis of pollen and spores from the end-Triassic mass extinction event (ETME) suggests that intense prehistoric climate change-fuelled wildfires raged across Europe, burning fern savannahs, extinguishing forests, and drastically changing the ecosystem. Dr Bas van de Schootbrugge from Utrecht University,…...
The unregulated crocodile
2+ hour, 44+ min ago (1422+ words) A few days later, another larger crocodile was spotted sliding from a muddy bank into an irrigation canal near the village of Shabramant in Aboul Nomros in Giza. Again, an Environment Ministry team located it and transferred it to one…...
Study finds marks in fossilized dinosaur bones may not always be bite marks | News
8+ hour, 39+ min ago (308+ words) Marks in fossilized dinosaur bones may have several causes ranging from pre-mortem natural causes to postmortem alterations, including bite marks, according to a new study. Researchers said the study of marks on fossil bones is important because it provides valuable…...
Ray-finned fishes evolved bioluminescence at least 27 chemistry and others by housing luminous bacteria, a repeated evolutionary experiment spread across deep-sea, inshore and reef lineages using different molecular machinery to make visible light
2+ hour, 36+ min ago (1087+ words) Ray-finned fishes have evolved bioluminescence independently at least 27 times. Some lineages manufacture light inside their own tissues, while others cultivate luminous bacteria in organs shaped into lures, lamps, reflectors and shutters. The number comes from a 2016 phylogenetic analysis led by…...
Ancient ferns turned Triassic Europe into a wildfire inferno
2+ hour, 36+ min ago (895+ words) The end-Triassic mass extinction struck about 201 million years ago and has been tied to enormous volcanic eruptions associated with the break-up of Pangea. Those eruptions released vast quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere, driving global temperatures up by an estimated 5 to…...
A Few-Centimeter Fossil Spent 99 Million Years Trapped in Amber, Revealing a Feature Almost Never Preserved
3+ hour, 31+ min ago (592+ words) This tiny gecko lived among tropical forests nearly 99 million years ago before becoming locked inside amber. Now, scientists are using its remarkable preservation to uncover secrets that are usually lost forever in the fossil record. A tiny gecko trapped in…...
Discovery of Ceratocaudia Antiqua in India Rewrites Evolutionary Timeline of Colossal Dinosaurs
3+ hour, 54+ min ago (219+ words) A newly discovered 190-million-year-old dinosaur fossil in Gujarat, India, has been identified as the oldest known ancestor of massive long-necked sauropods. The grueling excavation took place in the Kaladongar Formation within the Kachchh Basin of Gujarat. The IIT Bombay team…...
The £38 Million T-Rex: Inside the Dinosaur Fossil Investment Boom
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (230+ words) Dinosaur fossils have become the ultimate alternative asset class, with a T-Rex named Gus recently selling for a record-breaking $50.1 million at Sotheby's. The current market frenzy can be traced to a phenomenon industry analysts call the "Stan Effect." In 2020, a…...