Long-clawed dinosaur from Isle of Wight fossil is first megaraptoran found in Europe
A skull fragment collected on the Isle of Wight in 1924 has been identified as Invictibellatrix amberina, a new species ...
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Cretaceous Mammal With Replacing Teeth Rewrites the Story of Mammalian Dentition
A newly described Early Cretaceous mammal from China shows multiple generations of teeth, a transitional middle ear, and platypus-like swimming ...
Jurassic swimmer with a soft palate rewrites the story of how mammals learned to swallow
A 165-million-year-old fossil from Inner Mongolia reveals that the soft palate and swallowing machinery central to mammalian evolution were already ...
Fossil Icons of Male-Female Difference May Not Be So Different After All
A new University of Kansas study in PLOS One finds that uintatheres, long cited as a classic example of sexual ...
Ancient sea reptiles: tail shape reveals which mosasaurs ambushed and which chased
A Rutgers-led study modeling a tail-powered slam-start shows that some mosasaurs were built for explosive ambush attacks while relatives like ...
Extinct crocodile with a missing snout tip emerges from the stones of the Great Sphinx
A new extinct gavial species, Herugavialis cairensis, has been identified from Egyptian fossils preserved in the same 45-million-year-old rocks used ...
Noo-Noo: Amber Fossil Reveals Insect With Bizarre Flexible Feeding Tube From Dinosaur Era
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have identified a new 99-million-year-old insect species, Cretodorus noonoo, preserved in Myanmar amber, whose extraordinarily ...
Giant Flightless Birds May Have Sailed to a Volcanic Island on Floating Rafts of Vegetation
New hydrostatic and probabilistic modelling shows that giant flightless birds could plausibly have crossed the Lanzarote Passage on floating rafts ...
First Diplodocus Ever Found Outside North America Unearthed in Spain
Palaeontologists in Teruel, Spain have identified the first confirmed Diplodocus fossils ever found outside North America, revealing that the iconic ...
Ancient Capybara Fossil Reveals the Atacama Desert Was Once a Lush Wetland
A nearly 9-million-year-old capybara tooth from Chile's Atacama Desert reveals the region once hosted wetlands, crocodiles, and palms, challenging its ...
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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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