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Analysis Of Ancient Parrot DNA Reveals Sophisticated, Long-Distance Animal Trade Network That Pre-Dates The Inca Empire
4+ hour, 36+ min ago (576+ words) The international team of researchers, including scientists from The Australian National University (ANU), analysed parrot feathers that were discovered at Pachacamac, Peru " one of the preeminent religious centres of the Andean civilisation " far outside the birds" native rainforest range.Theresearchis…...
Football-Sized Fossil Creature May Have Been One Of The First Land Animals To Eat Its Veggies
1+ mon, 5+ hour ago (453+ words) A reconstruction of Tyrannoroter heberti, eating a fern. Illustration by Hannah Fredd "This is one of the oldest known four-legged animals to eat its veggies," says Arjan Mann, assistant curator of fossil fishes and early tetrapods at the Field Museum…...
This Fossil Bird Choked To Death On Rocks, And No One Knows Why
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (379+ words) A Journal of Analysis and News Jingmai O'Connor, the associate curator of fossil reptiles at Chicago's Field Museum and lead author of a new paper describing the new species in the journal'Palaeontologica Electronica, came across the fossil at the Shandong…...