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Meet Doolysaurus, the small (and maybe fuzzy) new dinosaur discovered by UT Austin researchers
3+ hour, 29+ min ago (981+ words) Doolysaurus gives scientists more insight into connections in lineages between species in North America and Asia. Around a hundred million years ago, a small, possibly fuzzy baby dinosaur about two years old died amid the harsh Cretaceous landscape. Fast forward…...
How a Black fossil digger became a superstar in the very white world of paleontology
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1825+ words) In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic " and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited. Lazarus Kgasi walks with ease across a gently rolling landscape about…...
Acrocantho-what? This dinosaur’s footprint was found in the Austin area after the July floods
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (425+ words) The footprints were created some 115 million years ago, when what is now a Central Texas suburb was a beach on the Western Interior Seaway. Several massive, three-toed footprints etched in limestone were discovered near Big Sandy Creek during cleanup after…...
That zing in your teeth from a cold treat? Blame this ancient armored fish
9+ mon, 4+ week ago (1663+ words) The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an evolutionary holdover from the scaly exteriors'of ancient armored fish. Yara Haridy, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago, likes to stun people by telling them that our…...