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A 150-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Flight Mystery May Finally Have an Answer
6+ min ago (578+ words) Archaeopteryx may have taken off by using two or three powerful leaps to reach the speed needed for sustained flight. With wings that could not lift high above its back and no keeled breastbone to power a modern-style launch, Archaeopteryx…...
236-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a Stunning Secret About the Origins of Mammal Birth
1+ hour, 16+ min ago (484+ words) An unusual growth mark in an ancient bone may help resolve a longstanding mystery surrounding the origins of mammalian reproduction. A microscopic growth mark preserved inside a 236 million-year-old fossil may help answer a longstanding question about how the ancestors of…...
Tiny New “Dragon” Discovered High in Thailand’s Mountain Forests
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (174+ words) High in the forests of western Thailand, scientists have discovered a tiny new lizard whose striking appearance and unique biology earned it a name worthy of a fantasy dragon....
Scientists Discover a 245-Million-Year-Old Reptile With Its Organs Still Preserved
1+ week, 22+ hour ago (405+ words) An international research team examined a unique fossil from China that, for the first time, preserves the digestive system of a marine reptile with a long neck that lived in the oceans 245 million years ago. Inside an almost complete fossil…...
520-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals How Cephalopods Learned To Float
1+ week, 2+ day ago (612+ words) A 520-million-year-old fossil reveals an early stage in the evolution of cephalopod buoyancy. A tiny tube running through a shell helped early cephalopods control whether they rose or sank in the ocean. Living and extinct members of this group, including…...
Nearly Complete Fossil Reveals Scientists Were Wrong About This Ancient Mammal
1+ week, 2+ day ago (190+ words) An exceptionally preserved Cretaceous mammal challenges longstanding assumptions about early placental relatives....
Tiny Fossil Overlooked for Decades Reveals a New Ice Age Species
1+ week, 3+ day ago (378+ words) A tiny fossil overlooked for decades at La Brea Tar Pits has turned out to belong to a species previously unknown to science....
A Rare Look Inside the Dodo???s Skull Challenges Centuries of Myths
1+ week, 5+ day ago (585+ words) CT scans reveal new clues to how the dodo sensed its environment and challenge its reputation as an unintelligent bird. For centuries, one of the world’s only two complete dodo skulls has been preserved in Copenhagen. Now, that rare specimen…...
Did Cellular Life Begin Twice? New Study Points to Two Independent Origins
1+ week, 5+ day ago (704+ words) Early metabolism may have begun as a mix of metal and enzyme catalysis before bacteria and archaea independently evolved into free-living cells. The study, published in Science Advances, examined the chemical network early cells used to produce essential components of…...
How Prehistoric Poop Changed Earth???s Ecosystems Forever
1+ week, 6+ day ago (595+ words) Ancient animal waste may have helped fuel the development and diversification of early marine ecosystems. Tiny pellets of fossilized waste may preserve evidence of a major transformation in early animal life. An international study led by Flinders University proposes that…...