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In the entire 485-million-year fossil record of sea lilies, only one fossil had ever been found with the tube feet the animals catch their food with, and a pair of crushed specimens from a Quebec quarry has now produced the second and oldest case, at about 452 million years
59+ min ago (379+ words) Two Dendrocrinus simcoensis fossils kept their tube feet as films of pyrite. Short and widely spaced at once, they combine measurements no living sea lily is known to combine, and they point at a feeding posture most modern stalked crinoids…...
324-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals How Early Insects Made the Move onto Land
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125-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Fossil Reveals Astonishing New Secrets
5+ hour, 15+ min ago (173+ words) Ultraviolet imaging of a 125-million-year-old crocodylomorph fossil has revealed unexpectedly detailed traces of skin, sensory structures, and chest cartilage....
Paleontologists Identify New Species of Glyptodont | Sci.News
5+ hour, 15+ min ago (115+ words) An incomplete fossilized skull that has sat in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Denmark since the 19th century has turned out to represent a previously unrecognized species of glyptodont (genus Glyptotherium) that once roamed South America....
Strange 'hobbit' species walked more like us than like 'Lucy,' hip bones reveal
6+ hour, 14+ min ago (406+ words) Anthropologists studying the hip bones of Homo floresiensis have discovered that its pelvis was human-like, raising new questions about the origin of the enigmatic species. The tiny, now-extinct human relative known as a hobbit had an even more human-like body…...
Egg-bound in deep time
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (313+ words) Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and the gymnophiona) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians and the tuataras). The discipline can include the biology, ecology,…...
Insects Have Six Legs. But This 324-Million-Year-Old Insect Had 24 Legs and a Body Unlike Anything Alive Today
8+ hour, 26+ min ago (113+ words) A fossil misidentified for decades reveals insects before six legs became standard....
Prioritizing Quality Before Synthesis in Paleoenvironmental Hazard Science - Eos
14+ hour, 59+ min ago (608+ words) Here, sediment deposits mark the high-water lines of floods that surged through the canyon centuries before any stream gauges were there to measure them. In particular, Baker and his colleagues studied slackwater deposits, fine-grained sediments emplaced by floodwaters in sheltered…...
Bizarre Fossil Turns Out to Be a 24-Legged Insect Science Somehow Missed
23+ hour, 59+ min ago (254+ words) As strange cases of mistaken identity go, this story is a difficult one to beat....