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Baby Dinosaurs Ate Better Than Their Parents, Fossil Teeth Reveal
5+ hour, 40+ min ago (224+ words) Artist's reconstruction of adult Maiasaura and young. Illustration by Brian Regal. That asymmetry, it turns out, probably reflects parental feeding behavior so sophisticated it had no real precedent on land at the time, something that looks, rather remarkably, like the…...
Cretaceous Amber Preserves 99-Million-Year-Old Ant Interactions With Mites and Spiders
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (613+ words) Science Blog. com...
Baby Dinosaurs Were the Ultimate Fast Food for Jurassic Predators
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (262+ words) Ecosystem reconstruction of the Late Jurassic Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry around 150 million years ago in Colorado, the United States. The bones tell a brutal story. At a quarry in Colorado, palaeontologists have pieced together food webs from 150 million years ago,…...
T. Rex Didn't Hit Peak Size Until Age 40
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (436+ words) Tyrannosaurus rex took four decades to finish growing. That's 15 years longer than paleontologists thought and this changes how we picture the most famous predator that ever lived. The new timeline comes from bone analysis of 17 T. rex specimens, the largest dataset…...
The Catastrophe That Made Your Backbone Possible
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (464+ words) A pair of Sacabambaspis fish, around 35 cm in length, which had distinct, forward-facing eyes and an armored head. No fossils of animals like Sacabambaspis from after the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction event have been discovered. A new study in Science…...
Clay Mask Reveals What Duck-Billed Dinosaurs Really Looked Like
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (533+ words) Scene painting some 66 million years ago showing the duck-billed dinosaur as it appeared in life based on mummies discovered in east-central Wyoming which document its scaly skin and hooves. It had a fleshy crest over neck and trunk, a fleshy…...
Neanderthals Operated "Fat Factories" 125, 000 Years Ago
10+ mon, 5+ day ago (575+ words) Neanderthals systematically processed bones from at least 172 large mammals at a lakeside location in Germany 125, 000 years ago, operating what researchers describe as a prehistoric "fat factory." The discovery at Neumark-Nord 2 fundamentally changes our understanding of Neanderthal food strategies, revealing sophisticated…...
New Species Reveals Japan's Forgotten Flying Giant
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (1108+ words) Japanese scientists have officially named their country's first pterosaur species from a single neck bone that sat in a museum for nearly three decades. The story of this pterosaur began in the 1990s when researchers found a partial neck vertebra in…...
Giant Dinosaur's Last Meal Reveals It Barely Chewed Food
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (786+ words) Australian Age of Dinosaurs Collection Manager Mackenzie Enchelmaier holds up sauropod gut content fossil. A 94-million-year-old sauropod dinosaur's fossilized gut contents have provided the first direct evidence of what these massive plant-eaters actually consumed, showing they swallowed their food with…...