Dinosaur species: ‘Everyone’s unique’
“Everyone’s unique” is a popular maxim. All people are equal, but there are of course individual differences. This was no different with dinosaurs.
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PALEONTOLOGY
Pioneering prehistoric landscape reconstruction reveals early dinosaurs lived on tropical islands
A new study using leading edge technology has shed surprising light on the ancient habitat where some of the first dinosaurs roamed in the UK around 200 million years ago.
Read moreMegatheropods’ ‘grow fast, die young’ approach altered dinosaur community structure and diversity
By filling ecological niches that would otherwise host smaller carnivores, young megatheropods like tyrannosaurs shaped dinosaur communities throughout the Mesozoic
Read moreDid teenage ‘tyrants’ outcompete other dinosaurs?
UNM researchers examine how carnivorous dinosaur offspring reduced species diversity
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Scientists describe earliest primate fossils
A new study published Feb. 24 in the journal Royal Society Open Science documents the earliest-known fossil evidence of primates. These creatures lived less than 150,000 years after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event that killed off non-avian dinosaurs and saw the rise of mammals.
Read moreNew fossil discovery illuminates the lives of the earliest primates
Graduate Center, CUNY/Brooklyn College anthropologist part of a team providing a big glimpse into how our primate relatives lived 66 million years ago after an asteroid wiped out dinosaurs
Read morePaleontologists discover new insect group after solving 150-year-old mystery
SFU-led research team uncovers how fossil dragonfly relatives have been misclassified due to their striking similarity
Read moreAncient skeletal hand could reveal evolutionary secrets
A 4.4 million-year-old skeleton could show how early humans moved and began to walk upright, according to new research led by a Texas A&M anthropology professor
Read moreAsteroid dust found in crater closes case of dinosaur extinction
Researchers believe they have closed the case of what killed the dinosaurs, definitively linking their extinction with an asteroid that
Read more‘Missing ice problem’ finally solved
During glacial periods, the sea level falls, because vast quantities of water are stored in the massive inland glaciers. To
Read more‘Problem of missing ice’ finally solved by movement of the earth’s crust
A new global ice sheet reconstruction for the past 80,000 years
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42,000-year-old trees allow more accurate analysis of last Earth’s magnetic field reversal
The last complete reversal of the Earth’s magnetic field, the so-called Laschamps event, took place 42,000 years ago.
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