A new discovery has challenged the widely held assumption that a period of explosive evolution quickly follows for survivors of mass extinctions. In the absence of competition, the common theory goes, surviving species hurry to adapt, evolving new physical attributes to take advantage of newly opened niches in the ecosystem. But that’s not what researchers [...]
A new species of prehistoric crocodile dating to the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 95 million years ago, has been discovered by a University of Missouri researcher. The extinct creature, nicknamed “Shieldcroc” due to a thick-skinned shield on its head, is an ancestor of today’s crocodiles. Its discovery provides scientists with additional information about the evolution [...]
A winged dinosaur long thought to be a “missing link” in the evolution of birds may have been adorned with black feathers just like modern birds, scientists have found. The raven-size creature called Archaeopteryx lived about 150 million years ago in what is now Bavaria in Germany. First unearthed 150 years ago, the fossil of [...]
An ancient dinosaur nursery – the oldest nesting site ever found – has been unearthed in an excavation at a site in South Africa. The 190-million-year-old nesting site of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus reveals significant clues about the evolution of complex reproductive behaviour in early dinosaurs. It discover clutches of eggs, many with embryos, as [...]
Palaeontologists have unearthed the remains of a fearsome fanged reptile which they believe roamed the Earth about 265 million years ago much before the age of the dinosaurs. The skull of the predator was dug up from a farm in the pampas plains of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil, after the scientists spotted [...]
Scientists, studying pre-historic life, have said that several hundred fossilised footprints found in a Beijing suburb are those of dinosaurs who lived about 140 to 150 million years ago. According to Zhang Jianping, researcher at the China University of Geosciences, the footprints, discovered in a geological park in Yanqing county, are the first dinosaur traces [...]
British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years. Dr Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, said Today that he stumbled upon the glass slides containing the fossils in an old wooden cabinet [...]
Palaeontologists claim to have found the remains of a titanosaur, the family of giant plant-eating dinosaurs, on Antarctica. An Argentinian-led team has discovered the fossil of a tail bone belonging to the titanosaur on James Ross Island. Titanosaurs were sauropods — four-legged herbivorous dinosaurs with long necks and tails. Their remains have been found around [...]
Paleontologists have discovered what they claim are bones of the “biggest” dinosaur in the US. A team from the Museum of Rockies in Montana State and the State Museum of Pennsylvania has described two gigantic vertebrae and a femur that it collected in New Mexico from 2003 to 2006 in a research report. The bones [...]
Researchers have discovered what they say are the remains of a new horned dinosaur species which has been lying in the vaults of a British museum for nearly a century. The remains of Spinops sternbergorum, which belongs to the same family as the Triceratops, were excavated from a quarry alongside a large group of fossils [...]
marcos anthony toledo:
Lets see how this new information either proves or disprove the current cosmic models of t...
marcos anthony toledo:
I think the further back we go in time we will find evidence of fishing. I think it might ...
Jase_UK:
One side could be really hot and the other side really cold.
It all depends on the type...
marcos anthony toledo:
What I wonder if the planet circling Gliese 581 is not rotating what would be the effect o...
marcos anthony toledo:
This great news this increases the chances for finding life in the galaxy since red dwarf ...
