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Newly identified long-necked dino weighed same as 9 elephants | News | djournal. com
2+ hour, 31+ min ago (186+ words) Newly identified long-necked dino weighed same as 9 elephants Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Artistic illustration of the Nagatitan. (Patchanop Boonsai via SWNS) Thitiwoot Sethapanichsakul and the front leg bone (humerus) of a newly identified giant long-necked dinosaur. (Thitiwoot Sethapanichsakul via SWNS)…...
World's oldest crocodile fossil discovered during walk on beach
3+ week, 5+ hour ago (155+ words) Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Amateur fossil hunter Heather Salt holding the world's oldest crocodile fossil. (Lyme Regis Museum via SWNS) Amateur fossil hunter Heather Salt discovered the world's oldest crocodile fossil during a guided walk on the Jurassic Coast. (Lyme…...
Parrot-beaked" reptile found in Brazil may have Scottish cousins
3+ week, 3+ day ago (86+ words) Isodapedon Varzealis in a landscape 230 million years ago. (Caio Fantini via SWNS) A "parrot-beaked" reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs in Brazil 230 million years ago may have had relatives in Scotland, say scientists. Prospecting at the fossil site. (Rodrigo Temp M'ller…...
Treasure trove" reveals animal diversity began earlier than thought
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (136+ words) Reconstruction of Jiangchuan biota (~554-539 million years ago). (Xiaodong Wang via SWNS) The discovery of a fossil "treasure trove" has pushed back the origins of animals at least four million years. The Haootia-like fossil (an early cnidarian the phylum that includes…...
New ape discovery "reshaping" understanding of evolution
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (86+ words) The discovery of a new ape species that lived in Egypt 17 million years ago is "reshaping" the understanding of evolution. Sallam Lab team from Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center. (Professor Hesham Sallam via SWNS) Reconstruction of Masripithecus moghraensis in the…...
Scientists find shark teeth in ancient whale skulls
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (111+ words) Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal A painted reconstruction of a bluntnose six-gill shark (or cow shark) scavenging on a tiny extinct right whale carcass during the Early Pliocene of the southern North Sea. A pod of an extinct whale related to…...
Study finds crocodile-like predator preyed on man's ancestors
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (90+ words) Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Researchers led by the University of Iowa have described and named a new crocodile species that roamed a region in Africa more than 3 million years ago. (Tyler Stone, University of Iowa via SWNS) A "dominant" crocodile-like…...
Croc ancestor started life on 4 legs before it began walking on 2
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (95+ words) Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Artist's reconstruction of Sonselasuchus cedrus in its environment in what is now Petrified Forest National Park, 215 million years ago. (Artwork by Gabriel Ugueto via SWNS) A "peculiar" ancient relative of the crocodile started life on four…...
Teeny tiny fossil reveals clues about evolution of primates
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (198+ words) Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Tiny fossill of purgatorius upper molar from Corral Bluffs in Denver. (Dr. Stephen Chester via SWNS) Illustration of a Purgatorius. (Andrey Atuchin via SWNS) Brooklyn College Undergraduate Research assistants. (Dr. Stephen Chester via SWNS) DMNS interns…...
Woolly rhino remains found in Ice Age wolf give clue to species" end
4+ mon, 3+ hour ago (187+ words) The remains of a 14, 400-year-old woolly rhinoceros recovered from an Ice Age wolf's stomach have given new clues about the demise of the species. Tumat-1 wolf puppy. (Michil Yakovlev via SWNS) H. Osborn, 'Men of the Old Stone Age' The remains…...