Image: To visualize the history of life, showing the influence of new evolutionary events, a new chapter applies machine learning to the fossil record. This … shows the long-term evolution and ecological effects of the scenario More Credit: J. Hoyle Kuthil and Ann. Gutenberg. Charles Darwin’s landmark, On the origin …
Read More »Digital reconstruction of the embryonic sauropod skull, with eyes added to show forward direction.Image: Kundrat et al. Current biology A rare egg fossil with an unbroken dinosaur suggests that baby sauropods were not miniature versions of the four-legged, long-necked hats that we all know and love, exhibit a unique set …
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More than 230 million years ago, a giant dolphin-like marine reptile, known as an ichthyosaur, forgot its finite meal – a creature almost its own size – and died a short time later. Inside his abdomen was the body of a lizard-like egg white reptile called a thalattosaur, adorned with …
Read More »Artist’s interpretation of the encounterIllustration: Jim Cooke / Gizmodo As Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn once said, “There’s always a bigger fish.” Or in the case of the Triassic, there is always a larger aquatic reptile, as this incredible fossil proves. New research published in iScience provides the oldest direct evidence …
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Scientists have discovered what they believe to be a new species of theropod dinosaur – making it a close relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex. A group of researchers said they had recently discovered rare bones in the UK that appear to be related to the iconic species. Paleontologists at the …
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