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Indian Fossils Support New Hypothesis for Origin of Hoofed Mammals

Nov. 7, 2020 — New research describes a fossil family that illuminates the origin of perissodactyls - the group of mammals that includes horses, rhinos, and tapirs. It provides insights on the controversial ...

Past Is Key to Predicting Future Climate, Scientists Say

Nov. 5, 2020 — A group of climate experts make the case for including paleoclimate data in the development of climate models. Such models are used globally to assess the impacts of human-caused greenhouse gas ...

Baby Dinosaurs Were 'Little Adults'

Nov. 6, 2020 — Paleontologists have described for the first time an almost complete skeleton of a juvenile Plateosaurus and discovered that it looked very similar to its parents even at a ...

Earliest Example of a Rapid-Fire Tongue Found in 'Weird and Wonderful' Extinct Amphibians

Nov. 5, 2020 — Fossils of bizarre, armored amphibians known as albanerpetontids provide the oldest evidence of a slingshot-style tongue, a new study ...

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Seabirds' Response to Abrupt Climate Change Transformed Sub-Antarctic Island Ecosystems

Nov. 5, 2020 — A 14,000-year paleoecological reconstruction of the sub-Antarctic islands done by an international research team including HKU has found that seabird ...

The First Duckbill Dinosaur Fossil from Africa Hints at How Dinosaurs Once Crossed Oceans

Nov. 5, 2020 — The first fossils of a duckbilled dinosaur have been discovered in Africa, suggesting dinosaurs crossed hundreds of kilometres of open water to get ...

New Species of Ancient Cynodont, 220 Million Years Old, Discovered

Nov. 4, 2020 — Fossilized jaw bone fragments of a rat-like creature found at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona last year by a Ph.D. candidate are in fact a newly discovered 220-million-year-old species ...

Lizard Skull Fossil Is New and 'Perplexing' Extinct Species

Nov. 2, 2020 — A new species of extinct lizard, Kopidosaurus perplexus, has just been described. The first part of the name references the lizard's distinct teeth; a 'kopis' is a curved blade used in ancient ...

New Study Finds Earliest Evidence for Mammal Social Behavior

Nov. 2, 2020 — A new study by paleontologists indicates that the earliest evidence of mammal social behavior goes back to the Age of Dinosaurs. The multituberculate Filikomys primaevus engaged in ...

To Survive Asteroid Impact, Algae Learned to Hunt

Oct. 30, 2020 — Tiny, seemingly harmless ocean plants survived the darkness of the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs by learning a ghoulish behavior -- eating other living ...

Scientists Discover New Organic Compounds That Could Have Helped Form the First Cells

Oct. 28, 2020 — Chemists studying how life started often focus on biopolymers like peptides and nucleic acids, but modern biopolymers don't form easily without help ...

Denisovan DNA in the Genome of Early East Asians

Oct. 29, 2020 — Researchers analyzed the genome of the oldest human fossil found in Mongolia to date and show that the 34,000-year-old woman inherited around 25 percent of her DNA from western Eurasians, ...

Giant Lizards Learnt to Fly Over Millions of Years

Oct. 28, 2020 — Most detailed every study into how animals evolve to better suit their environments shows that pterosaurs become more efficient at flying over millions of years before going extinct with the ...

Cracking the Secrets of Dinosaur Eggshells

Oct. 28, 2020 — Since the famous discovery of dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert in the early 1920s, the fossilized remains have captured the imaginations of paleontologists and the public, alike. Although dinosaur ...