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sci.news > paleontology > hesperornithiform-bird-feathers-dinosaur-coprolite-15058.html

Exceptionally Preserved Bird Feathers Found in 66-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Coprolite | Sci.News

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (257+ words) Paleontologists in Montana have discovered remarkably preserved feathers of an ancient aquatic bird inside a fossilized dinosaur dropping, offering rare insight into why certain birds survived the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago....

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sci.news > othersciences > anthropology > bianfu-cave-denisovans-15057.html

Denisovans Once Roamed Southwest China, New Fossils Reveal

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (418+ words) Paleoanthropologists have identified a trove of Denisovan fossils from a cave in China’s Yunnan province, extending the known range of the elusive human relative and providing the first-ever direct evidence of what its forearm bones looked like. An artist’s concept…...

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sci.news > paleontology > cretaceous-dinosaur-fossil-deep-drill-core-china-15048.html

115-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Fossil Recovered from Deep Drill Core in China | Sci.News

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (85+ words) Scientists have identified the first dinosaur fossil from a remote western section of the Bayan Gobi Formation in China’s Inner Mongolia, extending the known geographic range of dinosaur fossils in this important Early Cretaceous rock unit....

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sci.news > paleontology > eocene-predatory-mammal-footprint-antarctica-15031.html

55-Million-Year-Old Predatory Mammal Footprint Found in Antarctica

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (577+ words) A single fossilized footprint found in volcanic mud on a remote Antarctic island is the first known trackway from a mammal in Antarctica, and the earliest evidence anywhere on the continent of a carnivorous mammal. Track-bearing slab T-373 from King George…...

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sci.news > paleontology > ashizawa-iguanodontian-dinosaur-15007.html

Fossil of Small Duck-Billed Dinosaur Relative Found in Japan | Sci.News

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (59+ words) A fossilized bone unearthed two decades ago in northeastern Japan belongs to one of the smallest iguanodontian dinosaurs ever found in the country’s Cretaceous marine rocks, according to new research led by the University of Tsukuba....

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sci.news > paleontology > spatulidentatus-breviceps-15006.html

Spoon-Toothed, Short-Headed Marine Reptile Unearthed in China

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (388+ words) A new genus and species of sauropterygian reptile that lived during the Triassic period, some 245 million years ago, has been identified from a nearly complete skeleton found in China. Sauropterygians were a highly successful lineage of paddling marine reptiles that…...

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sci.news > paleontology > bataspis-crux-15002.html

Meet Bataspis crux, Jawless Fish that Cruised Devonian Seas with Batwing Head

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (547+ words) Paleontologists in China have identified a new species of armored, jawless fish from rocks around 419 million years old whose skull was shaped like the wing of a bat and whose unusual head made it an efficient glider through Devonian seas....

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sci.news > paleontology > archaeopteryx-flight-take-off-14998.html

Archaeopteryx Took Off with Series of Hops, Not One Big Leap: Study | Sci.News

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (296+ words) Archaeopteryx -- the first ever bird to inhabit the Earth -- may have hopped its way into the air, rather than launching with the single powerful leap modern birds use, according to a new biomechanical study published in the journal Developmental Biology....