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Jinju fossils show pterosaurs chase prey on land in South Korea
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (24+ words) Ancient Jinju tracks reveal land-hunting pterosaurs startled small prey and moved swiftly. .....
Scientists discover new Spinosaurus species in the Sahara Desert
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (405+ words) Paleontologists in the Sahara Desert have unearthed fossils of a new Spinosaurus species, one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs discovered. Known for its large blade-shaped crest and teeth specialized for snaring fish, the newly discovered predator hunted in inland forests…...
Too Big to Flap? The Prehistoric Bird so Massive it Could Barely Fly
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (993+ words) The world was a very different place 66 million years ago. Following the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, about three-quarters of all living organisms were killed off. However, life persisted and continued differently. This time, mammals flourished like never before along with birds,…...
Cave burials were actually common in prehistoric US, not rare as once believed
1+ week, 6+ day ago (886+ words) A new study has found that prehistoric cave burials, once treated as unique to one western Nevada basin, were far more widespread across the Great Basin in the U. S. than previously believed. That finding recasts these caves as part of a…...
UT researchers discover, name new dinosaur species
2+ week, 5+ day ago (518+ words) Scholarship honors, continues legacy of UT student killed in Sixth Street shooting A higher education report card Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks on natural rights, civic participation People of UT: Savannah Smith, the mind behind the machine Physics, Mathematics,…...
Student discovers new carnivore dinosaur 3x older than T. rex
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (886+ words) You want to stick your finger in a dinosaur brain?" That was Simba Srivastava's first reaction to the battered fossil sitting in a paleobiology lab at Virginia Tech, a skull so crushed and twisted that he described it in less-than-flattering…...
Massive 15kg echidnas once roamed south-east Australia. Evidence of the bizarre animals was found 120 years ago in a cave
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (541+ words) The re-examination of an Ice Age fossil that has spent the last 120 years in the bowels of a museum has filled a major knowledge gap in Australia's prehistoric fauna" A study, published earlier this week in the journal'Alcheringa: An Australasian…...
Humans evolved faster than expected after farming reshaped life
5+ hour ago (830+ words) Natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10, 000 years, far more than scientists had previously recognized. The study reframes recent human evolution as an active process driven by changing diets, diseases, and ways of living. Across 15, 836 people…...
Misidentified Triassic fossil turns out to be its own species
1+ week, 5+ day ago (857+ words) Scientists have confirmed that a tiny Triassic fossil long mistaken for another animal is actually its own species. That shift turns a long-standing misidentification into evidence of a much older lineage that survived a mass extinction. A small skull discovered…...
Ice Age fossils discovered in Central Texas cave
1+ week, 2+ day ago (464+ words) Ice Age fossils discovered in Comal County cave Some of animals never thought have lived in the area Team uncovered around 1, 000 fossils COMAL COUNTY, Texas - A discovery deep underground in Central Texas is challenging what scientists thought they knew about…...