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Extinct Tasmanian Tiger???s Head Mistaken for Fox Found by British Collector at Auction
11+ hour, 17+ min ago (279+ words) Extinct Tasmanian Tiger’s Head Mistaken for Fox Found by British Collector at Auction inkorr.com Extinct Tasmanian Tiger’s Head Mistaken for Fox Found by British Collector at Auction An Extraordinary Discovery: A Fox Head Turns Out to Be That of…...
It wiped out 90% of life on Earth, turned the oceans into graveyards??? and it very nearly ended life on our planet entirely
17+ hour, 45+ min ago (259+ words) It wiped out 90% of life on Earth, turned the oceans into graveyards – and it very nearly ended life on our planet entirely BBC Wildlife Magazine It wiped out 90% of life on Earth, turned the oceans into graveyards – and it very…...
It looked like a rodent but don't be fooled, this was no rodent. This is thought to be the world's first primate??? and our ancestor
21+ hour, 13+ min ago (959+ words) Meet the tiny mammal that survived the dino-killing asteroid to became our earliest ancestor As the ‘Age of the Dinosaurs’ came to an abrupt end 66 million years ago, another evolutionary story began, the ‘Rise of the Primates’, and it starts…...
Collagen Switch Turns Fish Fins Into Limb-Like Structures
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (83+ words) When the first fish lineage crawled onto land some 375 million years ago, its fins had to be remodeled into limbs capable of bearing weight. Evolutionary biologists have long focused on the genes that pattern the skeleton—Hox clusters, Sonic hedgehog,…...
Bizarre squid relative found in Wyoming is unlike anything seen before
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (840+ words) A bizarre belemnite fossil from Wyoming has been identified as a new species, revealing the thickest known member of this ancient squid relative group. There’s a fossil in a Wyoming museum drawer that spent two decades being, essentially, a mystery…...
Teeth Reveal Four Adaptive Zones Shaping Carnivore Evolution
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (762+ words) For more than a century, paleontologists and evolutionary biologists have marveled at the way terrestrial mammalian carnivores keep reinventing the same body plans....
Geologists Searching for Copper in China Drilled 1,500 Feet Underground and Found a 115-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Instead
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (452+ words) A routine mining survey in China turned into something no one on the team was prepared for: a dinosaur fossil that had been hiding underground for 115 million years. What they found next left even the experts divided. A copper mineral…...
Ichthyosaurs Had Surprisingly Dense Ribs, New Study Finds | Sci.News
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (267+ words) New research from the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo suggests ichthyosaurs’ rib cages may have done a job modern whale ribs don’t: acting as ballast to help them dive....
Imagine not having wings | Paleontology
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (46+ words) K.J. Genualdo • about 8 hours ago Zach Sweat • 13 days ago Zach Sweat • 16 days ago Phillip Hamilton • 8 months ago Uploaded by KimmyDude about 7 hours ago Resolution: (979px x 1441px) File size: 437 KB 27 views (27 from today) Uploaded about 7 hours ago...
Yeouch | Paleontology
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (50+ words) Zach Sweat • about 2 hours ago K.J. Genualdo • about an hour ago Zach Sweat • 9 minutes ago Zach Sweat • 13 days ago Zach Sweat • 16 days ago Phillip Hamilton • 8 months ago Uploaded by KimmyDude Sep 10, 2026 at 01:43PM EDT Resolution: (1144px x 1200px) File size: 104 KB...