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The Tasmanian Tiger's Skull Looked Like A Wolf's. It Didn't Bite Like One.
6+ hour, 58+ min ago (298+ words) Research led by Vera Weisbecker (Flinders University), Douglass S. Rovinsky (Australian Museum, Sydney) Digital reconstruction of a CT-scanned thylacine skull with the canines colourised pink. Credit: Vera Weisbecker (Flinders), CC-BY-SA That size mismatch alone stands out. Weighing around 17 kilograms, roughly a…...
Rise of European Carnivores Driven by Climate Change, Not Competition, Study Finds
2+ week, 4+ day ago (321+ words) Home › Historical News Reviewed by Patrisha Antonaros Research led by Valentin Fischer (Université de Liège) (© Feng Yu - stock.adobe.com) Cats, dogs, and bears rule the predator world today, but for tens of millions of years, their ancestors were minor…...
Newly Found Thai Lizard Species Named After 'House of the Dragon' Beast
3+ week, 1+ day ago (536+ words) Called "brilliant," "fantastic," and "spot on" by scientists and researchers, our acclaimed StudyFinds Analysis articles are created using an exclusive AI-based model with complete human oversight by the StudyFinds Editorial Team. For these articles, we use an unparalleled LLM process…...
Why No Dinosaur Was Ever Smaller Than a Can of Soup
3+ week, 2+ day ago (440+ words) Reviewed by Patrisha Antonaros Research led by Stephanie C. Lechki (Princeton University) A fossil of Microraptor, one of the smallest known dinosaurs. (Credit: Mick Ellison / ©AMNH) For more than 180 million years, the smallest known non-avian dinosaurs weighed about 400 grams as adults....
Fossils Reveal Early Four-Limbed Animals Hatched as Miniature Adults
3+ week, 6+ day ago (467+ words) Reviewed by Patrisha Antonaros Research led by Jason D. Pardo (Field Museum of Natural History) Baby crocodile-like early tetrapods called embolomeres. New fossil evidence suggests that these embolomeres did not undergo a metamorphosis the way that modern amphibians do when growing…...
This 550-Million-Year-Old Animal Already Had Favorite Way to Turn
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (292+ words) Home › Animal & Wildlife News Reviewed by Patrisha Antonaros Research led by Scott D. Evans (Florida State University) A fossil of Spriggina floundersi collected in South Australia. Because these fossils preserve mirror-image impressions of the original animals, a leftward bend in…...
Meet The Newly Discovered Cousin Of Velociraptor That Probably Glided On Four Wings
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (260+ words) Research led by Matt Lamanna (Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Mary R. Dawson Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology) The new microraptor dinosaur Jian changmaensis (left) attacks the early bird Gansus yumenensis (right) in what is now the Changma Basin of northwestern…...
Ancient Aura Farming? 121-Million-Year-Old Bird Had A Gigantic Tail, Possibly To Impress Mates
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (630+ words) Home › Animal & Wildlife News Research led by Alexander D. Clark (University of Chicago), Xiaoli Wang (Lingyi University) A potential male and female of the newly named taxa Plumadraco bankoorum. (Artwork by Ville Sinkkonen, CC-BY 4.0) A newly identified ancient bird species…...
Another T-Rex: Ancient Texas Was Home To Gigantic Sea Predator
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (247+ words) Research led by Amelia Zietlow (American Museum of Natural History), Ron Tykoski (Perot Museum of Nature and Science), and Michael Polcyn (Southern Methodist University) A reconstruction of Tylosaurus rex in the Cretaceous-era Western Interior Seaway of North America. (Credit: Courtesy…...
The 'Last Titan' Of Thailand: Scientists Discover New Dinosaur Species
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (612+ words) Published in Scientific Reports, the discovery is the first diagnostic sauropod specimen from Thailand’s Khok Kruat Formation, complete enough to identify as a new species, and it belongs to a group of four-legged, long-necked giants that includes the largest land…...