After the asteroid, the earliest bird ancestors thrived in Antarctica
With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...
A Man Was Taking A Walk Along A Cliff. He Found ‘The World’s Most Famous Piece of Puke Ever.’
The lump of vomit —more scientifically referred to as ‘regurgitate’—was discovered by Peter Bennicke as he walked along the Baltic Sea cliffside that is well-known for Cretaceous-era finds. In fact, ...
New Australian dinosaurs and the oldest megaraptorid fossils in the world
Research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has unveiled a landmark discovery—fossils of the world's ...
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The Mystery of the Cretaceous Pompeii
When you take a deeper look at Pompeii, a different story could be told about the final moments. Since the 1990s, paleontologists have been pulling 125-million-year-old complete dinosaur skeletons ...
Research suggests smaller apex-predators ruled Australia in the dinosaur age
Megaraptorids are known for somewhat small but sharp teeth, air-filled bones, and powerful forelimbs with enormous claws.
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Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird
Team led by National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine ...
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Fossil reveals Cretaceous drama of a croc attack on a flying reptile
That was life - and death - in the Cretaceous Period in the Canadian province of Alberta. Scientists have unearthed in the badlands of Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park the fossilized neck bone ...
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Two Jurassic Fossils Could Be The Earliest True Birds Ever Found
Contenders for the true first birds have now been found in Chinese rocks dating from the late Jurassic, around 149 million ...