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Ҵý: For a While, Crocodile
Released: 21-Apr-2025 8:15 PM EDT
For a While, Crocodile
University of Utah

Researchers examined teeth and skulls of 99 extinct crocodylomorph species and 20 living crocodylian species to reconstruct the dietary ecology of crocodylomorphs to identify characteristics that helped some groups persist through two mass extinctions.

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Released: 16-Apr-2025 10:55 AM EDT
First Caribbean 'Dirt Ant' Found in 16-Million-Year-Old Amber
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

Wherever there’s dirt there’s bound to be ants, but one particular group is so adept at blending in with the ground that they hold the name “dirt ant” (Basiceros) all to themselves. ...

Released: 1-Apr-2025 8:40 PM EDT
Professor Part of Study on New Fossil Carnivorous Mammals from Himalayan Foothills
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology

According to a new study published in Journal of Mammalian Evolution, two newly unearthed fossil specimens add important information to our collective knowledge of carnivorous mammals.

Ҵý: Mammals Were Adapting From Life in the Trees to Living on the Ground Before Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
Released: 1-Apr-2025 8:00 PM EDT
Mammals Were Adapting From Life in the Trees to Living on the Ground Before Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
University of Bristol

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research led by the University of Bristol has revealed.

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Released: 19-Mar-2025 6:15 PM EDT
How Big Brains and Flexible Skulls Led to the Evolution of Modern Birds
University of Chicago Medical Center

3D modeling shows how larger brains triggered changes in jaw muscles and joint mechanics that powered a flexible feeding system for modern birds.

Ҵý: Misha Lived in Zoos, but This Elephant's Tooth Enamel Helps Reconstruct Wildlife Migrations
Released: 13-Mar-2025 8:20 PM EDT
Misha Lived in Zoos, but This Elephant's Tooth Enamel Helps Reconstruct Wildlife Migrations
University of Utah

Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant’s teeth are now helping scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations. University of Utah geologists show how strontium isotopes found in teeth or tusks reveal where large plant-eating animals may have roamed.

Ҵý: Megalodon’s Body Size and Form Uncover Why Certain Aquatic Vertebrates Can Achieve Gigantism
Released: 10-Mar-2025 10:50 AM EDT
Megalodon’s Body Size and Form Uncover Why Certain Aquatic Vertebrates Can Achieve Gigantism
DePaul University

A new scientific study provides many new insights into the biology of the prehistoric gigantic shark, Megalodon or megatooth shark, which lived nearly worldwide 15-3.6 million years ago. Paleobiology professor Kenshu Shimada of DePaul University led the study along with 28 other shark, fossil, and vertebrate anatomy experts around the globe.

Ҵý: Bronx Zoo’s Dinosaur Safari Is Back! New Animatronics and Hands-On Fun for Dino-Lovers of All Ages
Released: 6-Mar-2025 7:05 AM EST
Bronx Zoo’s Dinosaur Safari Is Back! New Animatronics and Hands-On Fun for Dino-Lovers of All Ages
Wildlife Conservation Society

Something BIG is coming this spring to New York, as Dinosaur Safari returns with a roar to the Bronx Zoo! Guests will get up close with some of the largest animals to ever walk the Earth, including more than 60 life-size animatronic dinosaurs and pterosaurs, as Dinosaur Safari opens to the public on Saturday, April 12.

Ҵý: New Study Reveals Neanderthals Experienced Population Crash 110,000 Years Ago
Released: 25-Feb-2025 9:05 AM EST
New Study Reveals Neanderthals Experienced Population Crash 110,000 Years Ago
Binghamton University, State University of New York

A new study by an international team of scholars, including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York, suggests that Neanderthals experienced a dramatic loss of genetic variation during the course of their evolution, foreshadowing their eventual extinction.

Ҵý: Big birds like emus are technical innovators, according to University of Bristol researchers
Released: 20-Feb-2025 11:00 AM EST
Big birds like emus are technical innovators, according to University of Bristol researchers
University of Bristol

Large birds – our closest relations to dinosaurs - are capable of technical innovation, by solving a physical task to gain access to food.

Ҵý: How Dinosaur Extinctions Created an Environment That Contributed to Our Fruit-Eating Primate Ancestors
Released: 17-Feb-2025 4:00 AM EST
How Dinosaur Extinctions Created an Environment That Contributed to Our Fruit-Eating Primate Ancestors
Northern Arizona University

New research from Northern Arizona University shows that the evolution of fruit—and the evolution of fruit-eating primates, the early ancestors of humans—was influenced by the “ecosystem engineering” of large sauropods.

Ҵý: Fossil discovery in the Geiseltal Collection: researchers identify unique bird skull
Released: 22-Jan-2025 5:30 AM EST
Fossil discovery in the Geiseltal Collection: researchers identify unique bird skull
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

An international team of researchers reports on unique bird skull in "Palaeontologia Electronica". The flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt in Germany around 45 million years ago. The only other place that a similar skull fossil has been found is the USA.

Ҵý: Dinosaurs Roamed the Northern Hemisphere Millions of Years Earlier Than Previously Thought, According to New Analysis of the Oldest North American Fossils
Released: 7-Jan-2025 3:10 PM EST
Dinosaurs Roamed the Northern Hemisphere Millions of Years Earlier Than Previously Thought, According to New Analysis of the Oldest North American Fossils
University of Wisconsin–Madison

A newly described dinosaur whose fossils were uncovered by University of Wisconsin–Madison paleontologists is challenging the existing narrative, with evidence that the reptiles were present in the northern hemisphere millions of years earlier than previously known.

Ҵý: World’s Oldest Lizard Wins Fossil Fight
Released: 26-Nov-2024 7:05 PM EST
World’s Oldest Lizard Wins Fossil Fight
University of Bristol

A storeroom specimen that changed the origins of modern lizards by millions of years has had its identity confirmed.

Ҵý: Reconstructing Ancient Climate Provides Clues to Climate Change
Released: 4-Nov-2024 6:00 AM EST
Reconstructing Ancient Climate Provides Clues to Climate Change
Case Western Reserve University

A 15-year study of a site in Bolivia by an international team led by Case Western Reserve University provides a comprehensive view of an ancient ecosystem when the Earth was much warmer than today

Ҵý: Brazilian Fossils Reveal Jaw-Dropping Discovery in Mammal Evolution
Released: 25-Sep-2024 11:00 AM EDT
Brazilian Fossils Reveal Jaw-Dropping Discovery in Mammal Evolution
University of Bristol

The discovery of new cynodont fossils from southern Brazil by a team of palaeontologists from the University of Bristol, alongside colleagues from Argentina and Brazil, has led to a significant breakthrough in understanding the evolution of mammals.

Ҵý: What microscopic fossilized shells tell us about ancient climate change
Released: 26-Aug-2024 4:05 PM EDT
What microscopic fossilized shells tell us about ancient climate change
University of Utah

By analyzing foram shells recovered in drill cores, a study led by University of Utah geologists links rapid climate change that led to thermal maxima 50 million years ago to rising CO2 levels.

Ҵý: Research reveals the most complete dinosaur discovered in the UK in a Century
Released: 10-Jul-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Research reveals the most complete dinosaur discovered in the UK in a Century
University of Portsmouth

The most complete dinosaur discovered in this country in the last 100 years, with a pubic hip bone the size of a ‘dinner plate’, has been described in a new paper published today.

Ҵý: Life Underground Suited New Dinosaur Fine
Released: 9-Jul-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Life Underground Suited New Dinosaur Fine
North Carolina State University

The age of dinosaurs wasn’t conducted solely above ground. A newly discovered ancestor of Thescelosaurus shows evidence that these animals spent at least part of their time in underground burrows. The new species contributes to a fuller understanding of life during the mid-Cretaceous – both above and below ground.

Ҵý: Paul Sereno’s Fossil Lab moves to Washington Park
Released: 2-May-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Paul Sereno’s Fossil Lab moves to Washington Park
University of Chicago Medical Center

The 6,000 square foot facility will feature fossil preparation space, multipurpose areas for community programs, and tons of specimens collected from Sereno’s worldwide expeditions.



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