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Giant Aussie dinosaur was well equipped to nibble on tasty bush tucker
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (861+ words) Credit: artist Travis Tischler In a surprising new study, Australia's most famous plant-eating dinosaur has been described as a "picky eater with a nose for good food" when it roamed across the continent around 96 million years ago. After examining different…...
Student identifies new meat-eating dinosaur three times older than T. rex
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (693+ words) image: Simba Srivastava is a senior majoring in geosciences. view more "You want to stick your finger in a dinosaur brain?" asked Simba Srivastava. Surrounded by cabinets full of ancient bones in the paleobiology lab, the Virginia Tech undergraduate student…...
Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs had limited impact on sharks and rays, major AI-driven study shows
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (264+ words) An AI-driven study using a massive global fossil dataset shows the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species image: Shark and ray diversity trend through time view more Credit: Dr Catalina Pimiento…...
160-million-year-old dinosaur fossils open a new window onto the evolution of flight among dinosaurs and birds
4+ mon, 1+ day ago (231+ words) A rare discovery about dinosaurs sheds light on the evolution of flight Credit: Tel Aviv University " Dinosaur fossils preserved with their feathers indicate that these dinosaurs had lost the ability to fly. The research team: "Feather molting seems like a…...
Fossilized vomit reveals first filter-feeding pterosaur in the tropics
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (569+ words) A flying relative of dinosaurs, Bakiribu waridza (comb mouth" in the Kariri language) filtered crustaceans and other small organisms from rivers and lakes, where it was likely swallowed by a predator that regurgitated it in the Araripe Basin in Brazi…...
Breathing and moving in the ancient world of reptiles: What a mummified 289-million-year-old reptile can reveal about us today
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (821+ words) A 289-million-year-old mummified reptile is providing scientists with a window into how bodies have evolved when it comes to breathing and movement. Published in Nature on April 8, 2026, the study introduces the oldest known mummified remains of a terrestrial vertebrate " a…...
The pterosaur rapidly evolved flight abilities, in contrast to modern bird ancestors, new study suggests
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (448+ words) In a study of fossils, a research team led by an evolutionary biologist at Johns Hopkins Medicine suggests that a group of giant reptiles alive up to 220 million years ago may have acquired the ability to fly when the animal…...
Evolving a flight-ready brain " New study shows brain evolution in pterosaurs and birds took different paths
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (257+ words) In a new study published in Current Biology, an international team now reveals how pterosaurs evolved the neurological structures required for powered flight. "The breakthrough was the discovery of an ancient pterosaur relative, a small lagerpetid archosaur named Ixalerpeton from…...
The ability of teleost fishes to recognize individual faces suggests an early evolutionary origin in vertebrates
1+ year, 2+ day ago (121+ words) Osaka Metropolitan University researchers review the evidence for individual face recognition in fish and speculate that face identification neural networks are both similar and widespread across vertebrates. The face is the most important area on the human body for visually…...
From sea to soil: Molecular changes suggest how algae evolved into plants
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (254+ words) Primitive green algae in aquatic environments use a distinct light-harvesting complex called Lhcp, which differs from the LHCII found in land plants, suggesting an evolutionary transition that. .. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University A research team including Associate Professor Ritsuko Fujii of…...