Tag: Paleontology
Bird brains left other dinosaurs behind
Research on a newly discovered bird fossil led by The University of Texas at Austin found that a unique brain shape may be why...
Longest known continuous record of the Paleozoic discovered in Yukon wilderness
Expeditions to a remote area of Yukon, Canada, have uncovered a 120-million-year-long geological record of a time when land plants and complex animals first...
99-million-year-old snail fossilized in amber while giving birth
A well-preserved female land snail fossilized in Cretaceous amber shortly after the birth of her offspring was discovered in Myanmar. The discovery offers unprecedented...
School lesson gone wrong leads to new, bigger megalodon size estimate
A more reliable way of estimating the size of megalodon shows the extinct shark may have been bigger than previously thought, measuring up to...
Mexican paleontologists identify new ‘talkative’ dinosaur species
The new dinosaur species, Tlatolophus galorum is herbivorous dinosaur from 73 million years ago that emitted strong sounds. Excavations in Mexico reveal an intact...
Migration back to Africa took place during the Palaeolithic
The complete mitogenome of Pestera Muierii woman has been retrieved.Credit: E. Trinkaus and A. Soficaru
A research group has managed to retrieve the mitochondrial genome...
