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New Bird-Like Dinosaur Identified From Northwest New Mexico Fossil
4+ hour, 20+ min ago (212+ words) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A fossil discovered in northwest New Mexico more than 20 years ago has helped scientists identify a new species of bird-like dinosaur that lived in the state about 73 million years ago. Researchers with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History…...
Calling All Lefties: Celebrate Your Special Day!
10+ hour, 9+ min ago (647+ words) I am a member of an exclusive group of humans. Though small in number-only 15 percent of the world’s population are members– we have infiltrated every arena of life and learned to adapt to the majority’s lifestyle with unflagging, albeit graceless,…...
245-million-year-old reptile fossil preserves the oldest known intact digestive system
1+ hour, 2+ min ago (1245+ words) A 245 million-year-old fossil from China reveals how early reptiles adapted to the sea, preserving both skeleton and digestive system. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Life in the oceans did not always belong to creatures born there. In the wake of Earth’s greatest mass…...
Ancient penguin fossils offer new window into Antarctica's changing climate | EurekAlert!
6+ hour, 44+ min ago (270+ words) image: Sampling area - Submeseta Formation on Seymour Island. view more Credit: Boyang Xia et al., 2026 To study the rare fossils without damaging them, the researchers used micro-X-ray fluorescence scanning to map chemical elements across the surface of the bones. The…...
Scientists Dug Into Ancient Wyoming Rock and Found a Tiny Fossil After 50 Million Years That Didn’t Fit the Evolutionary Record
1+ hour, 54+ min ago (665+ words) Buried deep in Wyoming sandstone, a tiny fossil has revealed that the story scientists knew about an ancient primate group may not have been complete. A tiny primate that lived in what is now Wyoming around 50 million years ago has…...
Palaeontology breakthrough finally uncovers how 'first bird' learnt to fly 150 million years ago
2+ hour, 14+ min ago (447+ words) Northern Irish farm accused of poor animal welfare as whistleblower speaks to GB News Scientists at the University of Southampton have solved a long-standing puzzle about how the earliest birds managed to get airborne 150 million years ago, despite retaining numerous…...
Feces fueled a flurry of evolution during the Cambrian, study suggests
2+ hour, 35+ min ago (368+ words) In a recent study, evolution gets even messier than usual. The Cambrian explosion may have been fueled by poop. The first animals on Earth emerged about 600 million years ago, and 60 million years later, those simple early animals evolved into wildly…...
Researcher Says; Endangered Hicatee and Crocodiles Among the Dead Tag
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (23+ words) Greater Belize Media Researcher Says; Endangered Hicatee and Crocodiles Among the Dead Tag...
The ‘Blessed Lizard’ That Inherited the Earth After Its Worst Apocalypse - AOL
3+ hour, 44+ min ago (677+ words) Emerging from the ashes of the planet’s worst mass extinction, Shakajlura riojanensis was an ancient crocodile cousin that ruled the Triassic before large dinosaurs appeared. Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered a deadly prehistoric crocodile with “blade-like serrated” teeth that triumphed…...
Introducing Research Letters in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology - Eos
3+ hour, 9+ min ago (537+ words) Uplifted coral terraces along the coast of Espiritu Santo preserve a record of past sea level, reef growth, and tectonic motion in the southwest Pacific. Credit: Kaustubh Thirumalai AGU’s Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology is opening its pages to a new kind…...