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Oviraptorosaurs

How does a one-tonne dino hatch its eggs?

sea-lilies

Major shift in marine life occurred 33 million years later

Fossil record reveals changes in Earth’s movement and rotation

Magyarosuchus fitosi

Jurassic fossil tail tells of missing link in crocodile family tree

Hyneria lindae

25 years of fossil collecting yields clearest picture of extinct 12-foot...

Ichthyornis dispar

Scientists find the first bird beak, right under their noses

A Dickinsonia fossil animal of the Ediacaran era.

Ediacara Biota flourished in bacterially rich marine habitats

Gigantic concretions formed in mudstone on New Zealand's Moeraki coast; about 50 million years old. The present research shows that even concretions of this size formed very rapidly, within several decades.

Cracking open the formation of fossil concretions

This figure shows microwear patterns on the teeth of three theropods.

Dinosaurs’ tooth wear sheds light on their predatory lives

Microbes in a sub-seafloor aquifer feast on carbon in fluids flowing through the permeable rock.

Deep water aquifer acts like natural bio-reactor, allowing microbes to consume...

Peritresius martini turtle

New ancestor of modern sea turtles found in Alabama

Toipahautea whale

New species of ancient whale identified and named by Otago palaeontologists

Mammoth

Unprecedented wave of large-mammal extinctions linked to prehistoric humans

A scene from 232 million years ago, during the Carnian Pluvial Episode after which dinosaurs took over.

Dinosaurs ended – and originated – with a bang!

Platylithophycus cretaceus specimen. The scale bar is 5 centimeters.

First an alga, then a squid, enigmatic fossil is actually a...

University of Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank.

We think we’re the first advanced earthlings — but how do...

CT-rendered chimpanzee cranium (left) with enlarged image of a virtually extracted molar (middle).

The secret life of teeth: Evo-devo models of tooth development

Ecological restoration of moths in the Cretaceous Burmese amber forest.

Fossil study sheds light on ancient butterfly wing colors

Female (top) and male (below) of the ostracod Cypideis salebrosa.

Scientists Understand the Role of Sexual Selection in Extinction

Teeth from the Gadoufaoua deposit (Niger). The scale bar represents 2 cm. From left to right: teeth of a giant crocodile, Sarcosuchus imperator, a spinosaurid, a non-spinosaurid theropod (abelisaurid or carcharodontosaurid), a pterosaur, a hadrosaurid (a herbivorous dinosaur), a pycnodont (fish), and a small crocodylomorph.

The dinosaur menu, as revealed by calcium

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