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Ancient ferns turned Triassic Europe into a wildfire inferno
5+ hour, 16+ min ago (895+ words) The end-Triassic mass extinction struck about 201 million years ago and has been tied to enormous volcanic eruptions associated with the break-up of Pangea. Those eruptions released vast quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere, driving global temperatures up by an estimated 5 to…...
Some dinosaurs could rise like giants until they grew too big
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (644+ words) Two elephant-sized South American sauropods were unusually well built for standing on their hind legs. Digital tests showed that their robust femurs handled the enormous forces better than those of larger species, especially while the dinosaurs were young. The upright…...
Rare fossil goose rewrites the story of New Zealand's giant birds
1+ week, 4+ day ago (312+ words) Scientists have discovered a previously unknown fossil goose that challenges a decades-old theory about the evolution of New Zealand's birds. The find suggests the country's giant flightless geese evolved from much more recent arrivals, revealing a…...
Scientists recreated a dinosaur nest and solved a 70-million-year-old mystery
2+ week, 6+ day ago (541+ words) A team of researchers recreated a life-size oviraptor nest to investigate how these bird-like dinosaurs incubated their eggs millions of years ago. By combining physical experiments with heat transfer simulations, they discovered that oviraptors likely relied on both their own…...
Early mammals lived longer
4+ week, 1+ day ago (211+ words) "Never before have we been able to reconstruct the growth patterns of these early mammals in such detail," says lead author Dr. Elis Newham, a postdoc at Queen Mary University of London who during the study was an Alexander von…...
This four-winged dinosaur may have terrorized Earth's earliest birds
4+ week, 1+ day ago (185+ words) A newly discovered feathered dinosaur called Jian changmaensis may be the missing predator responsible for mysterious piles of crushed prehistoric bird bones in China. The four-winged glider, a close cousin of Velociraptor, helps reveal how early birds and their dinosaur…...
The first primates may have evolved in the cold, not the tropics
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (250+ words) A surprising new study suggests the earliest primates didn't originate in tropical forests but in cold, dry parts of North America. Some may have even survived seasonal Arctic conditions by slowing their metabolism or hibernating. Researchers found that…...
Millipedes beat vertebrates to land by 80 million years
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (895+ words) For hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs appeared and long before vertebrates ventured onto land, millipedes were already thriving on Earth's surface. These humble decomposers played a key role in some of the planet's earliest terrestrial ecosystems. Yet despite…...
Lucy’s hunter revealed: Giant crocodile terrorized early human ancestors
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (632+ words) More than 3 million years ago, the famous early human ancestor Lucy and her relatives shared the landscape of East Africa with a formidable predator. Hidden in rivers and lakes, a massive crocodile with a distinctive hump on its snout likely…...
Early Humans News -
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (723+ words) Read about early humans in this anthropology news section. Early human development, early human migration, culture and more. Photos....