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This ancient animal was one of the first to eat plants on land
1+ hour, 44+ min ago (1055+ words) Life began in the sea. Around 475 million years ago, plants started spreading from water onto dry ground. Roughly 100 million years later, vertebrate animals followed. Yet even after animals established themselves on land, they remained meat eaters for tens of millions…...
Searching for Inverloch’s elusive dinosaurs
2+ hour, 9+ min ago (440+ words) Ancient dinosaur claw and turtle bone unearthed along Bass Coast shoreline. INVERLOCH's very own dinosaurs have been found lurking in fossilised form along the Bass Coast between Inverloch and Cape Paterson. Volunteers from Dinosaur Dreaming have uncovered a fragment of…...
One of The Earliest-Known Vertebrates Navigated the Cambrian Dark Forest with Four Eyes
6+ hour, 5+ min ago (615+ words) Learn how a second pair of eyes helped this 518-million-year-old fish evade predators. Spiders have eight eyes, bees have five, and boxed jellyfish have 24 " but these are the exceptions. The vast majority of animals on this planet possess two peepers....
This 307-Million-Year-Old Animal May Have Been One of the First Plant Eaters
7+ hour, 5+ min ago (774+ words) Learn more about Tyrannoroter heberti, a football-shaped land vertebrate who may have enjoyed snacking on plants. A 307-million-year-old football-sized creature may be one of the earliest land vertebrates to have eaten plants. While plant-eating animals are overly abundant today, that…...
After 3,500-year-old rhino bones, remains of nilgai, black bucks found in Western Ghats
7+ hour, 17+ min ago (279+ words) COIMBATORE: Excavations carried out by the archaeologists of the Department of Maritime History and Marine Archaeology in Thanjavur found bones of wild animals such as nilgai, the largest antelope in Asia, black bucks, four-horned antelopes and gazelles, along with rhinoceros…...
307-Million-Year-Old Fossil of Plant-Eating Land Vertebrate Found in Canada
7+ hour, 52+ min ago (617+ words) Tyrannoroter heberti, a new species of pantylid "microsaur" from the Carboniferous period, shows that some of Earth"s earliest land vertebrates had already evolved complex teeth for grinding plants, suggesting terrestrial herbivory emerged rapidly after animals moved onto land. Life…...
Football-sized fossil creature may have been one of the first land animals to eat its veggies
8+ hour, 57+ min ago (353+ words) The "tyrant digger's" tough teeth'including ones on the roof its mouth'reveal the evolutionary history of plant-eating "This is one of the oldest known four-legged animals to eat its veggies," says Arjan Mann, assistant curator of fossil fishes and early tetrapods…...
Ancient sharks once swam in this landlocked state
10+ hour, 14+ min ago (467+ words) Andrew Paul is Popular Science's staff writer focused primarily on tech, AI, physics, and culture news. He was previously a regular contributor to The A.V. Club and Input, and has been featured by Rolling Stone, Fangoria, GQ, Slate, NBC, McSweeney's Internet…...
Dinosaurs on the move at Field Station: Dinosaurs
10+ hour, 30+ min ago (59+ words) Dinosaurs on the move at Field Station: Dinosaurs'KWCH Dinosaurs on the move at Field Station: Dinosaurs Improvements coming to the Redbud Trail in Wichita Wichita area roofer fined and banned from doing work Special veteran grave markers stolen from Hesston…...
Citizen scientists work on 100-million-year-old ichthyosaur fossil in Winton
11+ hour, 39+ min ago (692+ words) Jon Hawkhead sits in an outback shed with a small drill in hand as he meticulously works to remove tiny fragments of rock from a 100-million-year-old fossil. A vacuum sucks up each splinter of rock to painstakingly expose a skeleton…...