progscrape: paleontology

Neanderthals' flat feet was the consequence of a precise functional strategy to reduce impact stress under heavy loads and maximize stability on mountainous or rough terrain

4 days ago magazine.unibo.it paleontology

Scientists found what look like red blood cells inside a 115-million-year-old dinosaur leg bone from Brazil, plus traces of heme, the molecule that carries oxygen in blood

6 days ago sciencealert.com paleontology

Direct evidence for psychoactive cannabis use 2800 years ago

3 days ago pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov cannabis paleontology

Fossil Footprints in Brazil Hint at a Cougar-Size Mammal That Walked Among Dinosaurs

3 days ago smithsonianmag.com paleontology

A new dinosaur species discovered in North America reveals the first known specialized fruit-eating dinosaur: Infernogallus jamesi (or ‘Hell Chicken’), a turkey-sized, feathered dinosaur with a skull specialized for mashing stone fruits to remove the flesh from the main seed

7 days ago news.stonybrook.edu paleontology

Rinconraptor pipoae: new species of dinosaur identified in Patagonia, from the family Megaraptoridae

10 days ago palaeo-electronica.org paleontology

Near Arches National Park, a new dinosaur species emerges from the ground

12 days ago sfgate.com paleontology

Researchers unearth fossil evidence of first fully marine amphibian

14 days ago lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu paleontology

This week in PNAS Journal Club: Three fossils of Ice Age American “cheetahs” found in the Yukon Territory offer the first full genome for the species

14 days ago pnas.org paleontology

These are the first feathers ever found in fossilized dinosaur poop

43 days ago sciencenews.org paleontology

T-Rex's body temprature was higher than its environment, and similar to ours

47 days ago science.org paleontology

A Feather Found in Dinosaur Poop Might Explain How Birds Beat Extinction

53 days ago nytimes.com paleontology

Fossil long known as world’s oldest reptile dethroned: Study uncovers hidden gills and fish-like teeth in 345-million-year-old fossil, challenging long-held ideas about the origins of reptiles and life on land

40 days ago eurekalert.org paleontology

Scientists found 66-million-year-old blood vessels in the broken rib of the largest known T

2 months ago discovermagazine.com paleontology

The biggest dinosaurs couldn't sit on their eggs

2 months ago cbc.ca paleontology

Largest study of bat genomes and fossils shows bats originated in Europe, not Asia

46 days ago news.unsw.edu.au europe paleontology

Chile seizes more than 200 fossils of extinct mollusks

43 days ago reuters.com chile paleontology

A new analysis suggests that sugar played a central part in human evolution

3 months ago scientificamerican.com paleontology

Research suggests primate brains didn't get big for thinking, they got big for seeing: across 56 million years of fossil skulls, the frontal lobe is the same fraction of the brain in humans as in tree shrews, while vision-processing regions grew along with the optic nerve.

3 months ago science.org brain paleontology

Early snakes might have been specialized burrowers

3 months ago earth.com paleontology

Fossil footprints reveal body size and group dynamics of 1.4-million-year-old human relative: New study provides a rare snapshot of “fossil behavior” from Paranthropus boisei…

3 months ago mpg.de paleontology

Dinosaur-killing asteroid also created a dust cloud that insulated Earth, ‘charbroiling’ Cretaceous creatures

3 months ago purdue.edu earth paleontology

Genetic analysis suggests prehistoric people selectively hunted female woolly mammoths

3 months ago yahoo.com genetics paleontology

New plant-munching long-necked dinosaur from 130 million years ago uncovered in Thailand

3 months ago nbcnews.com paleontology

Jurassic avialan reveals stepwise evolution of bony tail in birds

4 months ago science.org paleontology

New fossil site suggests flowering plants were already thriving 10 million years before the dinosaur extinction

4 months ago news.berkeley.edu paleontology

Otodus megalodon vertebrae from Denmark

4 months ago palaeo-electronica.org paleontology

Newly identified fossil sheds light on evolutionary history of saber-toothed cats