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Paleontology - Environment - 06.05.2025
T. rex's direct ancestor crossed from Asia to North America
T. rex’s direct ancestor crossed from Asia to North America
Tyrannosaurus rex evolved in North America, but its direct ancestor came from Asia, crossing a land bridge connecting the continents more than 70 million years ago, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.

Paleontology - 25.03.2025
Why humans have a smaller face than Neanderthals
Why humans have a smaller face than Neanderthals
To the point Difference between humans, chimpanzees and Neanderthals: In humans, facial growth slows during childhood and stops during adolescence. Decline in bone cell activity: During puberty, the activity of the skull bone cells comes to a halt. This helps to keep the face smaller in adulthood. The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors - most notably, it is significantly smaller, and more gracile.

Paleontology - 24.03.2025
How a catastrophe rewrote the history of Earth: VUB research premieres at Docville

Paleontology - Environment - 20.03.2025
Western prof reports first evidence of Cretaceous Period dinosaurs in South Africa
Western prof reports first evidence of Cretaceous Period dinosaurs in South Africa
Guy Plint is no stranger to tracking prehistoric beasts.

Paleontology - History & Archeology - 12.03.2025
Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered
Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered
The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early Pleistocene, finds a new study involving a UCL researcher. The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early Pleistocene, finds a new study involving a UCL researcher.

Life Sciences - Paleontology - 31.01.2025
Award for research into prehistoric mammal migrations in East Africa
Award for research into prehistoric mammal migrations in East Africa

History & Archeology - Paleontology - 29.01.2025
Hand axes that may go back 1,5 million years ago in Iraqi desert

Paleontology - Life Sciences - 23.01.2025
New twist in mystery of dinosaurs' origin
New twist in mystery of dinosaurs’ origin
The remains of the earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered in the Amazon and other equatorial regions of South America and Africa, suggests a new study led by UCL researchers. Currently, the oldest known dinosaur fossils date back about 230 million years and were unearthed further south in places including Brazil, Argentina and Zimbabwe.

Paleontology - Social Sciences - 07.01.2025
Dinosaurs roamed the northern hemisphere millions of years earlier than previously thought, according to new analysis of the oldest North American fossils
Dinosaurs roamed the northern hemisphere millions of years earlier than previously thought, according to new analysis of the oldest North American fossils
How and when did dinosaurs first emerge and spread across the planet more than 200 million years ago? That question has for decades been a source of debate among paleontologists faced with fragmented fossil records. The mainstream view has held that the reptiles emerged on the southern portion of the ancient supercontinent Pangea called Gondwana millions of years before spreading to the northern half named Laurasia.

Paleontology - Earth Sciences - 02.01.2025
Major new footprint discoveries on Britain's 'dinosaur highway'
Major new footprint discoveries on Britain’s ’dinosaur highway’
Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have uncovered a huge expanse of quarry floor filled with hundreds of different dinosaur footprints.

Paleontology - Earth Sciences - 18.12.2024
Major volcanic eruptions were not responsible for dinosaur extinction
Major volcanic eruptions were not responsible for dinosaur extinction
New research has provided fresh insights into the dramatic events surrounding the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The extinction of the Dinosaur was a tumultuous time that included some of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth's history, as well as the impact of a 10-15 km wide asteroid.

Life Sciences - Paleontology - 04.12.2024
Picking your brain: the new techniques tracing brain evolution
Picking your brain: the new techniques tracing brain evolution
To better understand how modern human brains work, one ANU expert is using cutting-edge technology to study skulls from our ancient ancestors.

Paleontology - Environment - 19.11.2024
Saskatchewan’s first Centrosaurus and Citipes elegans fossils discovered by McGill researchers
Findings reveal rich dinosaur fauna on the edge of an ancient sea at a time of rising sea levels and a changing environment about 75 million years ago, researchers say Paleontologists and students from McGill University have documented Saskatchewan's first confirmed fossil specimens of Centrosaurus , a horned dinosaur species closely related to Triceratops .

Life Sciences - Paleontology - 12.11.2024
A new extinct species of coelacanth discovered thanks to Synchrotron
A new extinct species of coelacanth discovered thanks to Synchrotron
Using a particle accelerator, a scientific team has identified a new species of these fish, considered to be 'living fossils'.

Paleontology - Earth Sciences - 29.10.2024
The Megacheiran candidate: Fossil hunters strike gold with new species
The Megacheiran candidate: Fossil hunters strike gold with new species
Ancient "gold" bug fossils, infused with pyrite, have been identified as a new species of arthropod.

Earth Sciences - Paleontology - 06.09.2024
How we discovered unique Scottish rocks record when Earth was first encased in ice
How we discovered unique Scottish rocks record when Earth was first encased in ice
Writing in The Conversation, Professor Graham Sheilds and Elias Rugen (both UCL Earth Sciences) discuss their discovery of rocks proving the polar ice caps once expanded so far they joined up around the equator. More than 700 million years ago, the Earth was plunged into a state that geologists call  "snowball Earth" , when our planet was entirely encased in ice.

Life Sciences - Paleontology - 09.08.2024
What Ancient Bones Can Tell Us: Exploring the Fossilized Past with Julia Tejada

Paleontology - 17.07.2024
Results of initiatives on fossil industry cooperation
TU Delft is committed to supporting the energy transition and seeks to collaborate with partners who endorse this mission.

Paleontology - 08.05.2024
Weegie scampi: Discovery of ancient Glaswegian shrimp fossil unveils new species
Weegie scampi: Discovery of ancient Glaswegian shrimp fossil unveils new species
A short but robust little shrimp may have died out over 330 million years ago during the Carboniferous period, but the rare Scottish shellfish has been revitalised as a new species to science and as a Glaswegian.

Paleontology - Life Sciences - 17.04.2024
Manchester paleontologist unearths what may be the largest known marine reptile
Part of the research team in 2020 examining the initial finds (at the back) of the new discovery made by Ruby and Justin Reynolds. Additional sections of the bone were subsequently discovered. From left to right, Dr Dean Lomax, Ruby Reynolds, Justin Reynolds and Paul de la Salle. Credit: Dr Dean Lomax A palaeontologist at The University of Manchester has identified the fossilised remains of a second gigantic jawbone measuring more than two metres long.

Paleontology - Life Sciences - 18.03.2024
UZH Opens New Natural History Museum with Four Dinosaurs
UZH Opens New Natural History Museum with Four Dinosaurs

Paleontology - Art & Design - 11.03.2024
Revitalized Yale Peabody Museum to reopen March 26
Revitalized Yale Peabody Museum to reopen March 26

Paleontology - Life Sciences - 05.03.2024
Fossils of giant sea lizard show how our oceans have fundamentally changed since the dinosaur era
Fossils of giant sea lizard show how our oceans have fundamentally changed since the dinosaur era
The oceans were full of large apex predators 66 million years ago, in contrast to modern times.

Life Sciences - Paleontology - 19.02.2024
Little African duckbill dinosaurs provide evidence of an unlikely ocean crossing
Little African duckbill dinosaurs provide evidence of an unlikely ocean crossing
New species of duckbill dinosaur found in Africa indicates they were diverse, with at least three species inhabiting north Africa at the end of the Cretaceous.

Environment - Paleontology - 07.02.2024
66 million-year history of carbon dioxide shows climate is highly sensitive to greenhouse gases
66 million-year history of carbon dioxide shows climate is highly sensitive to greenhouse gases
The last time atmospheric carbon dioxide consistently reached today's human-driven levels was 14 million years ago, researchers have found.

Paleontology - 22.01.2024
What human fossils reveal about life stories
What human fossils reveal about life stories

Paleontology - Media - 28.11.2023
Study gives grandmother gecko a place of honor - and a new name
Study gives grandmother gecko a place of honor - and a new name
Helioscopus dickersonae lived in North America in the late Jurassic period, 100 million years earlier than any previously known early gecko relative.

Paleontology - Earth Sciences - 06.11.2023
The last turn of 'Ezekiel's Wheel' honors a Yale-affiliated fossil hunter
The last turn of ’Ezekiel’s Wheel’ honors a Yale-affiliated fossil hunter
Yale paleontologists have identified a -problematic- fossil as an ancient sea creature that lived in the plankton 420 million years ago. The mystery of Ezekiel's Wheel - the extinct sea creature, not the Biblical vision - may have taken its final turn, thanks to Yale paleontologists. In so doing, the researchers have also finally put a scientific name to the favorite fossil of a beloved amateur fossil hunter.

Environment - Paleontology - 30.10.2023
Elephants: Earth’s giant climate change canaries
Research project traces 60 million years of elephant evolution and how humans may be the species' undoing University of Michigan researcher Bill Sanders poses with a newly discovered skull and skeleton of a palaeoloxodont elephant, which is about 1.2 million years old.

Paleontology - Art & Design - 24.10.2023
Manchester palaeontologist to hit Hollywood red carpet ahead of lead role in international dinosaur documentary

Earth Sciences - Paleontology - 23.10.2023
Finding Argoland: how a lost continent resurfaced
Finding Argoland: how a lost continent resurfaced
Geologists have long known that around 155 million years ago, a 5000 km long piece of continent broke off western Australia and drifted away.

Paleontology - Life Sciences - 13.09.2023
Nature's great survivors: Flowering plants survived the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs
Nature’s great survivors: Flowering plants survived the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs
New Milner Centre for Evolution study tracks how "flower power" survived mass extinction 66 million years ago to become the dominant plant type Published on Wednesday 13 September 2023 Last updated on Wednesday 13 September 2023 A new study by researchers from the University of Bath (UK) and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) shows that flowering plants escaped relatively unscathed from the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

Paleontology - 23.08.2023
Fossils of 'primitive cousins of T rex' shed light on the end of the age of dinosaurs in Africa
Fossils of ’primitive cousins of T rex’ shed light on the end of the age of dinosaurs in Africa
Fossils of two new abelisaurs have been discovered in Morocco, showing the diversity of dinosaurs in this region at the end of the Cretaceous period.

Environment - Paleontology - 17.08.2023
You're reading this because an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, allowing mammals to dominate the Earth. But why?
You’re reading this because an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, allowing mammals to dominate the Earth. But why?

Paleontology - Life Sciences - 27.07.2023
Perfectly preserved turtle fossil gives clues to habitat 150 million years ago
Perfectly preserved turtle fossil gives clues to habitat 150 million years ago
A perfectly preserved turtle fossil from Lower Bavaria yields important clues about both the species and the habitat that existed in southern Germany 150 million years ago.

Life Sciences - Paleontology - 27.06.2023
Clues in the clay: Scientists narrow the search for the first animals
Clues in the clay: Scientists narrow the search for the first animals
Using a particular type of sedimentary rocks as their guide, researchers begin to tackle the question of when animals first appeared on Earth.

Paleontology - 14.06.2023
First hominin muscle reconstruction shows 3.2 million-year-old 'Lucy' could stand as erect as we can
First hominin muscle reconstruction shows 3.2 million-year-old ’Lucy’ could stand as erect as we can
Digital modelling of legendary fossil's soft tissue suggests Australopithecus afarensis had powerful leg and pelvic muscles suited to tree dwelling, but knee muscles that allowed fully erect walking.

Paleontology - Life Sciences - 23.05.2023
Did dome-headed dinosaurs sport bristly headgear?
An artist's depiction of a newly described species of pachycephalosaur that was named Platytholus clemensi, after the late UC Berkeley paleontologist William Clemens.

Environment - Paleontology - 24.04.2023
Digesta: An overlooked source of Ice Age carbs
Study: Human consumption of large herbivore digesta and its implications for foraging theory Early human foragers may have relied on eating the partially digested vegetable matter, called digesta, found in the stomachs and digestive tracts of bison and other large game herbivores.

Paleontology - Environment - 20.04.2023
Acclaimed British dinosaur hunter to headline Wyoming’s ’Jurassic Fest’

Paleontology - History & Archeology - 16.02.2023
Giant meat-eating dinosaur footprint is largest found in Yorkshire
An almost metre-long footprint made by a giant, meat-eating theropod dinosaur from the Jurassic Period represents the largest of its kind ever found in Yorkshire. Curiously, the unusual footprint appears to capture the moment that the dinosaur rested or crouched down some 166 million years ago. The Yorkshire coast is renowned for producing some visually and scientifically incredible fossils, including thousands of dinosaur footprints.

Life Sciences - Paleontology - 01.02.2023
319-million-year-old fish preserves the earliest fossilized brain of a backboned animal
Study: Exceptional fossil preservation and evolution of the ray-finned fish brain DOI 10.1038/s41586'022 -05666-1 The CT-scanned skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain.

Life Sciences - Paleontology - 21.12.2022
The other paleo diet: Rare discovery of dinosaur remains preserved with its last meal
The other paleo diet: Rare discovery of dinosaur remains preserved with its last meal
Microraptor was an opportunistic predator, feeding on fish, birds, lizards - and now small mammals. The discovery of a rare fossil reveals the creature was a generalist carnivore in the ancient ecosystem of dinosaurs. Finding the last meal of any fossil animal is rare. When McGill University Professor Hans Larsson saw a complete mammal foot inside the rib cage of the small, feathered dinosaur, his jaw dropped.

Paleontology - Environment - 28.11.2022
Beavers Have Lived in Family Clans in the Allgäu for More Than Eleven Million Years
Beavers Have Lived in Family Clans in the Allgäu for More Than Eleven Million Years
For paleontologists, Hammerschmiede in the Allgäu region, the site where the great ape Danuvius was discovered, is a treasure trove unlike any other: more than 140 fossil vertebrate species have been found here.

Life Sciences - Paleontology - 21.11.2022
Going to the 'femoral head' of the class to explain dinosaur evolution
Going to the ’femoral head’ of the class to explain dinosaur evolution
A new study by Yale paleontologists charts the radical evolutionary changes to the thigh bones of dinosaurs and birds that allowed them to stand on two feet. Dinosaurs - and birds - wouldn't have been able to stand on their own two feet without some radical changes to their upper thigh bones. Now, a new study by Yale paleontologists charts the evolutionary course of these leggy alterations.

History & Archeology - Paleontology - 15.11.2022
Vulnerable Prehistoric Giants
Vulnerable Prehistoric Giants
The remains of glyptodonts, a group of extinct giant armadillos, indicate that humans spread to South America earlier than previously assumed. Found in northwestern Venezuela, the fractured skulls could represent evidence of hunting by humans, says UZH paleontologist Marcelo Sánchez. Skilled human hunters are also likely to have contributed to pushing the large, heavily armored animals over the brink.

Earth Sciences - Paleontology - 20.10.2022
How old is Yosemite Valley?
Tenaya Canyon (center) and part of Yosemite Valley (foreground) as seen from Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park.

Life Sciences - Paleontology - 30.09.2022
What a reptile's bones can teach us about Earth's perilous past
What a reptile’s bones can teach us about Earth’s perilous past
An extinct reptile's oddly shaped chompers, fingers, and ear bones may tell us quite a bit about the resilience of life on Earth, according to a new study. In fact, paleontologists at Yale, Sam Houston State University, and the University of the Witwatersrand say the 250-million-year-old reptile, known as Palacrodon, fills in an important gap in our understanding of reptile evolution.

Paleontology - Life Sciences - 31.08.2022
Worldwide flower family bloomed 50 million years before the dinosaurs
Worldwide flower family bloomed 50 million years before the dinosaurs
New Curtin-led research has discovered that a group of flowering plants with more than one thousand species worldwide is 150 million years older than botanists previously believed.

Paleontology - 25.08.2022
The talking dead: burials inform migrations in Indonesia
The talking dead: burials inform migrations in Indonesia
The discovery of three anicent bodies on Indonesia's Alor Island tells new stories of the earliest humans in island Southeast Asia. If three ancient bodies buried in Indonesia could talk, researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) say they would tell stories of the earliest humans in island Southeast Asia.
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