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Opinion: An ancient, sophisticated palate
8+ hour, 25+ min ago (329+ words) Opinion: An ancient, sophisticated palate'NPR We might look at cave paintings and conclude that our prehistoric ancestors speared a bison or saber-toothed tiger and just hefted their carcasses into a fire. But new research suggests that our forebears had more…...
What crocodile bones teach us about dinosaurs : Short Wave
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (458+ words) Paleontologists have often determined how old a dinosaur was by counting the growth rings in its bones. Just like with trees, it was thought that each ring corresponded to a single year of age. But researchers who studied crocodiles at…...
Newly discovered dinosaur species was a fish-eater with a huge horn
2+ week, 5+ day ago (480+ words) Paleontologists Paul Sereno and Dan Vidal take notes on a massive hind limb of a new long-necked dinosaur, its femur measuring nearly 2m in length, at the Jenguebi dig site in Niger in November 2022. Matthew Irving/Fossil Lab/University of Chicago…...
Searching for dinosaur secrets in crocodile bones
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1377+ words) By looking at thin slices of crocodile bones, University of Cape Town paleobiologist Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan has concluded that researchers may have been overestimating some dinosaur ages. "It changes how we think about dinosaur growth," she says. Tommy Trenchard for NPR…...
How a Black fossil digger became a superstar in the very white world of paleontology
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1838+ words) Lazarus Kgasi entered the orbit of paleontology on a whim. After high school, he needed to support his family. He worked a couple of odd jobs before he was hired as a fossil digger. It would forever change his life....
The method for estimating a dinosaurs' age at death may be off, research suggests
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (59+ words) The method for estimating a dinosaurs' age at death may be off, research suggests'NPR The method for estimating a dinosaurs' age at death may be off, research suggests A growing body of research on dinosaurs' closest living relatives suggests the…...
The dinosaur secrets found in the archives of a natural history museum
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (266+ words) What happens behind the scenes of a dinosaur exhibit? Short Wave host Regina Barber got to find out " by taking a trip to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. In the museum's basement, she talked to a paleobiologist,…...
How did these species survive mass extinction events? : Short Wave
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (243+ words) Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth's largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet's worst mass extinction event. The eruptions spewed large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, temperatures rose globally and oxygen in the…...
A photographer discovers miles of dinosaur tracks near Italy's Winter Olympic venues
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (566+ words) One of the Alpine rock faces in northern Italy covered in dinosaur tracks, believed to be 210 million years old. Milan Natural History Museum hide caption Have you ever watched the Olympics and thought "this would be better with a hint…...
This High Arctic rhino may change what we know about ancient animal migrations
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (861+ words) Canadian Museum of Nature researchers Natalia Rybczynski (left), Danielle Fraser and Marisa Gilbert examine the bones of Epiaceratherium itjilik. Pierre Poirier/Canadian Museum of Nature hide caption Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species…...