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Ancient DNA Rewrites Story of Enigmatic ‘American Cheetah’ | Sci.News
1+ week, 1+ day ago (410+ words) For several decades, paleontologists have described Miracinonyx trumani -- an extinct species of cheetah-like felid that roamed the North American prairies and steppe terrains more than 13,000 years ago -- as North America’s answer to the African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)....
115-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Fossil Recovered from Deep Drill Core in China | Sci.News
5+ day, 13+ 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....
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....
Ichthyosaurs Had Surprisingly Dense Ribs, New Study Finds | Sci.News
1+ day, 19+ 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....
Ornithologists Discover New Bird Species in Brazil | Sci.News
4+ week, 1+ day ago (126+ words) A previously unrecognized species of the antthrush genus Chamaeza has been discovered in the isolated highland rainforests of northeastern Brazil....
Exceptionally Preserved Bird Feathers Found in 66-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Coprolite | Sci.News
2+ day, 14+ 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....
Giant Crocodiles Once Preyed on Massive Mammals in South America | Sci.News
3+ week, 5+ day ago (105+ words) Paleontologists have uncovered the first direct physical evidence that colossal prehistoric crocodiles hunted large plant-eating mammals in what is now Colombia roughly 12 million years ago....
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....
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…...
Paleontologists Discover First-Ever Adult Tyrannosaurus rex Trackway | Sci.News
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (138+ words) Paleontologists in North Dakota have unearthed a set of 66.5-million-year-old fossilized footprints that can be confidently attributed to a full-grown Tyrannosaurus rex....