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Paleontology

fossil tree

Rare 3D fossils show that some early trees had forms unlike any you’ve ever seen

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans
Figure 1. (A) Reconstructed Caudipteryx © Christophe Hendrickx. Used under the terms of the Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 3.0). Licensing details: [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en]. (B) Robopteryx, imitating the morphology of Caudipteryx, positioned in front of a grasshopper in the field (marked by a red arrow). (C) Grasshopper tested in the experiments.

Feathered Dinosaurs’ Surprising Purpose: Scaring, Not Flying

Categories Life & Non-humans
Study sheds new light on the body form of the Megalodon, and its role in shaping ancient marine life.

The megalodon was less mega than previously believed

Categories Life & Non-humans
wooly mammoth

Researchers chronicle lifetime travels of a single woolly mammoth which wandered the north more than 14,000 years ago

Categories Life & Non-humans
The Welsh countryside near the Coed Cochion Quarry, where the fossils were found. Picture: Anthony Clarke

Key moment in the evolution of life on Earth captured in fossils

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans
An X-ray reconstruction of a 32-million-year-old fossil kelp holdfast colored to show the base (orange), holdfast (yellow) and the bivalve shell to which it attached (blue).

Pacific kelp forests are far older that we thought

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment
predator worms swimming under water

Ancient Predator Fossils Unearthed in Greenland

Categories Life & Non-humans
Artist illustration of Nanotyrannus attacking a juvenile T. rex.

“Juvenile T. rex” fossils are a distinct species of small tyrannosaur

Categories Life & Non-humans
Prehistoric people are attacking an elephant

People, not the climate, caused the decline of the giant mammals

Categories Life & Non-humans
The fossil that was originally interpreted to be a plant, but researchers have now discovered is the inside of the shell of a baby turtle.

It turns out, this fossil plant is really a fossil baby turtle

Categories Life & Non-humans
Bite and tooth marks on sauropod dinosaurs from the Morrison Formation

Surprising insights into feeding habits of carnivorous dinosaurs in North America

Categories Life & Non-humans
Ohio State logo

Advances in soft robotics usher in a new era of scientific analysis

Categories Technology
Neanderthal

The encounter between Neanderthals and Sapiens as told by their genomes

Categories Life & Non-humans, Social Sciences
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