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Pterosaur fossil yields earliest molecular clues to diet, preservation
22+ hour, 14+ min ago (227+ words) News9live New Delhi: An international research team has discovered how a pterosaur fossil has been preserved in extraordinary detail for 113 million years For the first time ever, biomolecules have been recovered from the remains of a flying reptile, that lived along…...
Shelved museum specimen overturns theories on ancient marine mass extinction
3+ week, 20+ hour ago (426+ words) News9live Shelved museum specimen overturns theories on ancient marine mass extinction A forgotten fossil rediscovered in a museum collection from 500 million years ago has challenged the long-held belief that marine life suffered a massive biodiversity collapse during the late Cambrian period....
Earliest complex life lived exclusively in oxygenated waters
3+ week, 2+ day ago (390+ words) News9live Earliest complex life lived exclusively in oxygenated waters Analysis of 1. 7 billion year old rock cores from northern Australia reveals that the earliest known complex organisms lived in oxygenated waters. The findings resolve a long-standing evolutionary debate by confirming that oxygen…...
New king of Cretaceous seas identified
1+ mon, 19+ hour ago (398+ words) News9live New king of Cretaceous seas identified Scientists have identified a new species of top marine predator from the time of the dinosaurs. The creature has been named Tylosaurus Rex. New Delhi: American researchers have described a new species of mosasaur,…...
Giant Octopus dominated Cretaceous oceans 100 million years ago
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (403+ words) News9live Giant Octopus dominated Cretaceous oceans 100 million years ago The Mosasaurs may not have been the top predator in the Cretaceous oceans. A newly discovered octopus may have been on top of the marine food chain 100 million years ago. New Delhi:…...
Dinosaur embryo in fossil egg has bird-like posture
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (272+ words) News9live New Delhi: In 2000, an exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo was discovered in Ganzhou, in southern China, estimated to be at least 66 million years old Inside was a toothless theropod dinosaur, or oviraptorosaur, named Baby Yingliang The fossil shows that the embryo…...
Neanderthals drove giant elephants hundreds of kms across Ice Age Europe
3+ mon, 22+ hour ago (247+ words) news9live. com New Delhi: An international team of researchers have reconstructed the life histories of European straight-tusked elephants based on fossil teeth found at Neumark-Nord in northeastern Germany, revealing that Neanderthals hunted the animals in organised groups about 125, 000 years ago The…...
Giant dinosaur species discovered in Brazil reveals ancient link between South America and Europe
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (373+ words) New Delhi: Scientists in Brazil have discovered a new giant dinosaur species, which can provide new knowledge about prehistoric life and ancient associations of continents. The dinosaur is called Dasosaurus tocantinensis, and it is thought to be one of the…...
Tiny fossil rewrites history of mysterious group of dinosaurs
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (279+ words) News9live New Delhi: A team of researchers have identified a 90-million-year-old fossil that provides a missing link for a mysterious group of bird-like dinosaurs known as alvarezsaurs, that are famous for their tiny teeth and stubby arms ending in a single,…...
Sabre-crested Spinosaurus discovered in Sahara Desert
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (295+ words) Scientists have described a new species, Spinosaurus mirabilis based on remains found in the Sahara Desert. The dinosaurs lived 95 million years ago when the desert was a wetland. New Delhi: Fossils discovered in the Sahara Desert have been used to…...