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Tyrannosaurus rex could beat Usain Bolt in 100m sprint by running on tip-toes, study claims
6+ min ago (436+ words) Ever since the release of the blockbuster Jurassic Park, the Tyrannosaurus rex has been associated with ground shaking tremors as it moved. But infact, rather than stomping heel-first, the prehistoric beast may have actually tip-toed as it roamed around on…...
T. Rex Could Run Faster Than Usain Bolt, on Its Toes
1+ hour, 25+ min ago (336+ words) Tyrannosaurus rex may loom large in our collective imagination, but new research suggests the creature moved more like a supersize barnyard bird than a stomping movie monster.... T. Rex Could Run Faster Than Usain Bolt, on Its Toes Tyrannosaurus rex may…...
Oldest Fossil Vomit Ever Found On Land Captures The Lunch Of A Predator That Lived Long Before Dinosaurs
2+ hour, 6+ min ago (577+ words) Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile "Regurgitalites are direct witnesses of a behavior of an animal." Image credit: Sophie Fernandez "Regurgitalites are…...
The Oldest Butthole Ever Found Is a 290-Million-Year-Old Fossil
3+ hour, 21+ min ago (182+ words) It's a butthole. It's functional. It's unglamorous. It's also a weirdly useful clue about how early reptiles were built. That's why the potential cloaca imprint is the star. Near the base of the tail, the fossil shows a narrow slit-like…...
Argentine fossil rewrites evolutionary history of a baffling dinosaur clade
5+ hour, 30+ min ago (1663+ words) Altangerel, P., Norell, M. A., Chiappe, L. M. & Clark, J. M. Flightless bird from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. Nature 362, 623626 (1993). Qin, Z. et al. Growth and miniaturization among alvarezsauroid dinosaurs. Curr. Biol. 31, 36873693 (2020). Meso, J. G. et al. Revised alvarezsaurian phylogeny and body size and evolutionary rate analyses reveal complex evolutionary history…...
90-million-year-old tiny bird-like dinosaur's skeleton unearthed in Argentina
5+ hour, 44+ min ago (530+ words) For ninety million years, a two-pound skeleton lay hidden in the red sandstones of Patagonia." It was small and fragile. And, as paleontologists now realize, it was the key to unlocking one of paleontology's most enduring mysteries. A team led…...
A Giant Millipede Lost to Science For 126 Years Just Turned Up in Madagascar
7+ hour, 22+ min ago (15+ words) A Giant Millipede Lost to Science For 126 Years Just Turned Up in Madagascar'Charlotte Observer...
The Thing: Antarctica’s Gigantic Dinosaur-Era Egg Remains A Mystery
8+ hour, 4+ min ago (11+ words) The Thing: Antarctica's Gigantic Dinosaur-Era Egg Remains A Mystery'IFLScience...
Vertebrate paleontology has a numbers problem. Computer vision can help
8+ hour, 8+ min ago (915+ words) How many fossils does it take to accurately train an image-based AI algorithm? According to a new study co-authored by Bruce MacFadden, UF Distinguished Professor Emeritus and retired curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, the…...
Marine volcanic plateaus tied to at least 4 Triassic extinction events
8+ hour, 39+ min ago (412+ words) A study published recently in Geology identifies marine large igneous provinces (LIPs) as the cause of at least four mass extinctions during the Triassic period, addressing a long-standing question about what triggered the era's repeated die-offs. While the five major…...