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Spectacular fossil preserves internal organs of ancient marine reptile
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (448+ words) A tiny, long-necked marine predator that lived 245 million years ago is the oldest reptile ever found with an intact digestive system. The exquisitely preserved fossil, including almost the entire skeleton as well as the stomach, liver and intestines, was found…...
New Scientist recommends a brilliant take on the evolution of birds
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (682+ words) Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte's The Story of Birds offers an excellent and sometimes startling account of bird evolution, finds Michael Marshall The Story of Birds Steve Brusatte, Picador (UK); Mariner Books (US) Steve Brusatte is three for three. His debut book…...
Millions of fossil whale bones found in deep-ocean ‘necropolis’
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (794+ words) Researchers diving 7 kilometres deep in a crewed submersible have discovered a vast collection of whale bones, including fossils up to 5 million years old and species new to science Fossils including possible baleen-whale ribs found at a depth of 5656 metres in…...
Frozen squirrel scat preserves ancient DNA from hundreds of species
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (562+ words) A complex ecosystem of woolly mammoths, bison, horses and big cats has been elucidated by studying the faeces of small rodents that probably ate the bigger animals Arctic ground squirrels gather food from a wide variety of sources and store…...
Alice Roberts: 'We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals"
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1080+ words) Why do we have big brains? Or walk on two legs? Biological anthropologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts talks human exceptionalism, evolution and her new book Humans with Michael Marshall Physically, Homo sapiens is not that special in the animal world....
Giant Arctic continent launched dinosaurs to world domination
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (416+ words) Coincident with the rise of the dinosaurs, a large landmass filled most of the Arctic circle, potentially contributing to global cooling that advantaged the famous reptiles By Bas den Hond Dinosaurs could survive in cold conditions, as illustrated by Beipiaosaurus,…...
Why dinosaurs lived much more complex lives than we thought
3+ mon, 4+ hour ago (1274+ words) A wave of dinosaur discoveries over the past decade has completely reshaped our understanding of these long-extinct animals. Palaeontologist Dave Hone spills the secrets of how dinosaurs lived, from how social they were to how much they really fought Hone,…...
The evolving science of dinosaurs
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (28+ words) New Scientist Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 165 million years and even now, we’re still uncovering new secrets about these extraordinary animals....
Largest-ever octopus was great white shark of invertebrate predators
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (701+ words) During the Cretaceous, 19-metre-long predatory octopuses swam the seas, and evidence from their fossilised remains suggest they may have been highly intelligent hunters A reconstruction of the giant octopus While dinosaurs ruled the land, Cretaceous oceans were home to a…...
Dinosaur fossil rewrites the story of how sauropods got long necks
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (362+ words) A 230-million-year-old fossil found in Argentina shows that the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs’ long necks began earlier than previously thought High in the Argentinian Andes, a team of palaeontologists has found a small dinosaur fossil with the first hints of…...