progscrape: paleontology

Earth’s first waterfowl may have lived in Antarctica 69 million years ago

5 months ago sciencenews.org antarctica earth paleontology

Accounting for sampling heterogeneity suggests a low paleolatitude origin for dinosaurs

5 months ago cell.com paleontology

Palaeontologists have described a new genus and species of Carcharodontosauridae, Tameryraptor markgrafi, based on material from the Bahariya Formation in Egypt.

5 months ago journals.plos.org paleontology

Paleontologists in the United States have uncovered the fossilized remains of a new species of sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in the northern hemisphere (supercontinent Laurasia) during the Carnian age of the Late Triassic epoch…

6 months ago sci.news paleontology

Fossil amphibian offers insights into the interplay between monsoons and amphibian evolution in palaeoequatorial Late Triassic systems..

6 months ago royalsocietypublishing.org paleontology

Daily records of over 53 years in a 10 million-year-old giant clam offer a glimpse of climate variability in the late Miocene

6 months ago doi.org paleontology

The earliest dinosaurs likely emerged in a hot equatorial region in what was then the supercontinent Gondwana, an area of land that encompasses the Amazon, Congo basin, and Sahara Desert today.

5 months ago sci.news amazon paleontology

Humans, not climate change, may have wiped out Australia’s giant kangaroos

5 months ago sciencenews.org australia paleontology

'Dog-Like' Fossil Discovery May Be Oldest Known Saber-Toothed Animal

6 months ago newsweek.com paleontology

Study extends chart of life by nearly 1.5 billion years

6 months ago news.vt.edu paleontology

Toddler’s bones have revealed shocking dietary preferences of ancient Americans

7 months ago science.org paleontology

A discovery deep within a cave in Spain has challenged the history of human artistic expression

7 months ago sciencedirect.com paleontology

Mysterious 193 million-year-old plant-eating dinosaur discovered in China

6 months ago sci.news china paleontology

Lizards and snakes are 35 million years older than we thought | Reanalysis of a fossil finds that reptiles' traits go back earlier than we thought.

7 months ago arstechnica.com go paleontology

Footprints reveal the coexistence of two human species 1.5 million years ago

7 months ago english.elpais.com paleontology

Newly described Flesh-Eating 'Terror Bird' May Have Stood Over 3 Meters (9 feet) Tall, Far Larger Than its Relative

8 months ago sciencealert.com paleontology

A Late Devonian coelacanth reconfigures actinistian phylogeny, disparity, and evolutionary dynamics

8 months ago nature.com paleontology

Pre-inventing the wheel: 12,000-year-old pebbles an early sign of spinning technology

7 months ago scimex.org paleontology

Several Denisovan populations, who likely had an extensive geographical range, were adapted to distinct environments and passed on some of their genes via multiple, distinct interbreeding events that helped shape early human history.

7 months ago sci.news paleontology

Palaeontologists have described a new, large Jurassic pterosaur, Skiphosoura bavarica, that helps bridge the gap between current intermediate pterosaurs and the pterodactyloids.

7 months ago cell.com paleontology

Palaeontologists have described a new genus and species of amphisbaenian (worm lizard), Terastiodontosaurus marcelosanchezi, from the Eocene of Chambi, Tunisia, estimated to have been the largest of its kind and with a bite force that could crush a wide variety of snails.

7 months ago academic.oup.com paleontology

90-million-year-old amber discovered in Antarctica reveals secrets of ancient forest

7 months ago cambridge.org antarctica paleontology

180-Million-Year-Old Cockroach Fossil Found in UK

8 months ago sci.news paleontology

Early evidence of symbiosis found in ancient coral

8 months ago scimex.org paleontology

First-ever evidence of 16-million-year-old extinct sawfly species discovered

8 months ago resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com paleontology

Scientists Find Evidence for Hominin Exploitation of Extinct Straight-Tusked Elephants in India