Rare Cretaceous Nautilid Fossil Found in Swiss Alps Marks a First for the Country
A fossil nautilid collected in Switzerland's Alpstein mountains is the first record of the genus Pseudocenoceras in the country and ...
Tag: palaeontology
A Silurian Graptolite Window: Guluoping Section Fills a Gap in South China’s Fossil Record
A newly documented graptolite fauna from the Guluoping section in Hubei Province, China, confirms the presence of the uppermost Aeronian ...
Evidence of male anatomy in a mid-Cretaceous Burmese miniaturised amber gecko
Two mid-Cretaceous amber lizards from Myanmar preserve fine integumentary detail, and one shows a hemipenal bulge that identifies it as ...
A Bavarian Quarry Yields the Richest Late Jurassic Snail Fauna Ever Recorded
A new study of Upper Kimmeridgian reefal limestones at the Saal quarry near Kelheim, Bavaria, reports 15 new gastropod species ...
Sturgeon experiments reveal early tetrapods had surprisingly stiff necks
Material tests on lake sturgeon reveal that the earliest land-dwelling vertebrates had surprisingly rigid necks, suggesting the head–shoulder separation evolved ...
Ancient Turtle From France Rewrites the Story of the Last Triassic Turtles
A newly named Rhaetian turtle from France, Bartassochersis lopezi, becomes the first European turtle known from the latest Triassic and ...
Tiny Indents, Big Answers: Lizard Skulls Reveal How Island Giants Evolved
Nanoindentation of Canary Island lizard skulls reveals that bone stiffness decreases with body size and diet, allowing scientists to infer ...
Jurassic flightless bird reveals early ecological diversity of avialans
A Late Jurassic fossil from southeastern China reveals a flightless early bird with markedly short forelimbs, showing that the first ...
X-ray Tomography Reveals Directional Growth in an Early Radiolarian Skeleton
Micro-CT scanning of a 480-million-year-old radiolarian shows its silica skeleton grew in eight branching stages with a clear directional asymmetry.
Tiny moth in Eocene Baltic amber reveals a lost branch of primitive Lepidoptera
Deep in a lump of golden resin that hardened some 38 million years ago on the floor of a subtropical ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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