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Dinosaur Poop Preserves a 66-Million-Year-Old Meal, Revealing Clues to Why Some Birds Went Extinct
4+ hour, 15+ min ago (836+ words) Scientists have discovered what may be the first fossil feather ever found inside dinosaur poop, offering an unusually detailed look at a predator's final meal 66 million years ago. The fossilized feces, found in Montana and identified as UWBM 103150, contain a…...
90-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a Small Dinosaur Living Along Japan???s Coast
8+ hour, 41+ min ago (277+ words) A small iguanodontian fossil from Japan adds evidence that Late Cretaceous coastal ecosystems supported dinosaurs of widely different body sizes. Iguanodontians were widespread plant-eating dinosaurs that lived from the Late Jurassic through the Late Cretaceous. Their movement between Asia, North…...
This ‘living dinosaur’ survives up to 427 years and rank among the world’s longest-lived vertebrates
16+ hour, 57+ min ago (913+ words) New research suggests lake sturgeon may live for centuries, reshaping conservation plans for one of the Great Lakes’ rarest fish. Some of the lake sturgeon swimming in the Great Lakes may have been there before the United States existed. That…...
What’s Next for James the T-Rex
13+ hour, 51+ min ago (36+ words) A Speculative Fable Short Story James, the Tyrannosaurus rex, opened his eyes and was surprised by how bright it was outside. The sky was as blue as the best summer …...
Brazil fossil lost for 20 years helps identify new reptile species from 240 million years ago
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (550+ words) AI-generated illustration of Silescelida acristata, a reptile that lived around 240 million years ago in what is now southern Brazil A fossil fragment that disappeared for around two decades has helped scientists identify a previously unknown reptile that lived about 240 million…...
A 68 million year old fossil egg from Antarctica changes how we view ancient marine reptiles
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (344+ words) When the fossil was first spotted on Seymour Island in 2011, no one knew what it was. The structure was flattened and paper-thin, unlike the rigid shells typically preserved in the fossil record. For years, it resisted classification. Nearly a decade…...
Dino poo unlocks answers to ancient bird mystery
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (656+ words) Scientists believe the poo might have come from a tyrannosaur who had an ancient species of aquatic bird for its tea When you're looking for the answer to a puzzled from millions of years ago, sometimes the most unexpected of…...
High School Science Teacher Finds Something Scientists Had Never Seen Before: A T. Rex Trackway
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (430+ words) A high school science teacher went fossil hunting in North Dakota and ended up discovering something scientists had never documented before: a trail of footprints left by a full-grown Tyrannosaurus rex....
Genesis of Paleo at Princeton: 150 Years of Princeton Paleontology
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (409+ words) 150 Years of Princeton Paleontology brings real fossils from the University’s Geosciences collection, alongside the scientific publications describing them, to tell the story of the scientific lineage that founded modern vertebrate paleontology. On a hot June day in 1876, three Princeton undergraduates…...
Teeth Reveal Four Adaptive Zones Shaping Carnivore Evolution
2+ day, 5+ 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....