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Dinosaur fossils in Brazil reveal new giant species
7+ hour, 22+ min ago (265+ words) Brazilian scientists have identified a new species of giant dinosaur with ties to a similar animal found in Spain, reinforcing knowledge that land routes once connected parts of South America, Africa and Europe about 120 million years ago. Named Dasosaurus tocantinensis,…...
New AI method helps identify which dinosaur made which footprints
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (552+ words) Footprints are among the most common kind of dinosaur fossils. Sometimes scientists find a single, lonely footprint. Sometimes they come across a chaotic jumble of tracks resembling a dance floor, sort of a dinosaur discotheque. But identifying which dinosaur left…...
Fossils of unexplored marine lizards species from Jurassic era discovered in Germany
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (308+ words) Berlin [Germany], August 5 (Ani/ Izvestia): European scientists, while studying the fossils of a marine lizard found back in 1978 in the city of Holzmaden in southern Germany, discovered that it belongs to a new, previously unexplored species of plesiosaurs. This was…...
Geologists explore tertiary fossil formations at museum in Kasauli
9+ mon, 4+ day ago (344+ words) A delegation of 14 geologists from Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) visited the Tethys Fossil Museum (TFM) near Kasauli last evening to study the various sequences of tertiary formations, a geological epoch spanning from about 66 million to 2.58 million years ago....
These ancient fish are likely to be blamed for toothaches in cold: Study
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (419+ words) New research from the University of Chicago shows that dentine, the inner layer of teeth that transmits sensory information to nerves inside the pulp, first evolved as sensory tissue in the armoured exoskeletons of ancient fish....