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Chinese fossil shows internal organs of prehistoric marine reptile
10+ hour, 43+ min ago (680+ words) July 30 (Reuters) – Scientists have discovered a fossil in China of a long-necked marine reptile from 245 million years ago that is so well preserved that it reveals the animal’s stomach, liver and intestines, providing an unparalleled look at reptilian internal anatomy…...
Mammoth bones found on parched bed of Danube in Bulgaria
1+ hour, 29+ min ago (257+ words) SOFIA, Bulgaria — Sinking water levels in the Danube river have unveiled bones of a mammoth in Bulgaria and could lead to further discoveries, a local museum director told AFP on Thursday. The bone fragments found near the northeastern city of…...
FSU geologists discover North, South American mammals mingled before continental connection
1+ hour, 17+ min ago (338+ words) Florida State University researchers are part of an international team whose work reveals that North and South American mammals interacted before the Panamanian land bridge formed about 3 million years ago. North and South America were once isolated continents home to…...
FSU: Americas' Mammals Mingled Pre-Continental Link
3+ hour, 9+ min ago (230+ words) Florida State University researchers are part of an international team whose work reveals that North and South American mammals interacted before the Panamanian land bridge formed about 3 million years ago. North and South America were once isolated continents home to…...
Dinosaurs galore at the David A. Howe Public Library
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (153+ words) Home » Dinosaurs galore at the David A. Howe Public Library The David A. Howe Library in Wellsville will have a Dinosaur Dig Show on Friday, August 7th at 4:00PM in the Nancy Howe Auditorium for children and their families. Children will meet…...
Dinosaurs roam the West Milford library
4+ hour, 15+ min ago (173+ words) www.westmilfordmessenger.com Dinosaurs roam the West Milford library West Milford. Children and their families explored the prehistoric world through music, fossil digs, animated dinosaurs and hands-on activities during the Dinosaurs Arise program at the West Milford Library on July…...
SBU Researcher Helps Reveal a Chapter of Mammal Evolution
2+ hour, 26+ min ago (461+ words) Stony Brook University Professor Maureen O’Leary from the Department of Anatomical Sciences in Stony Brook University’s Renaissance School of Medicine (RSOM) is part of a research team that recently uncovered a preserved fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert that is reshaping…...
520-Million-Year-Old Fossil from China Fills Gap in Evolutionary History of Cephalopods
2+ hour, 21+ min ago (431+ words) Paleontologists have identified the earliest-known cephalopod equipped with a siphuncle — a tubular extension of the mantle found in shelled cephalopods — pushing back the fossil record of this key evolutionary feature to the Early Cambrian, roughly 520 million years ago. Life reconstruction…...
Tiny fossils crack a Cretaceous cold case
2+ hour, 52+ min ago (617+ words) A 113-million-year-old marine murder mystery may finally be solved. Using chemical clues locked inside microscopic fossils, Northwestern University scientists found evidence that ocean acidification drove one of the largest extinction events in the history of planktic foraminifera — tiny shell-building organisms…...
Ancient DNA reveals Ice Age humans preferred female mammoths
3+ hour, 14+ min ago (289+ words) Credit: Marc Händel/Austrian Academy of Sciences Analysing ancient DNA of over 500 mammoth bones, an international team of researchers found that Ice Age humans selectively targeted female woolly mammoths. The results of the study, published in Current Biology, show that…...