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A 3D laser scan of an Ikaria wariootia impression. (Droser Lab/UCR)

Ancestor of all animals identified in Australian fossils

Geology Page - March 26, 2020

Example coprolites from Rancho La Brea (A) prior to asphalt removal with surrounding sediments, (B) showing intact pellets with plant material, (C) isolated, cleaned pellets. Figure 2, from: Mychajliw et al. 2020. Exceptionally preserved asphaltic coprolites expand the spatiotemporal range of a North American paleoecological proxy. Credit: Carrie Howard

Unprecedented preservation of fossil feces from the La Brea Tar Pits

Dr Daniel Field holding a replica version of the 'Wonderchicken' skull

Wonderchicken : fossil from the age of dinosaurs reveals origin of modern birds

Researchers dated ash deposits from this hill, called a koppie in South Africa. The lower part of koppie Loskop exposes strata from before the end-Permian extinction (Palingkloof Member of the Balfour Formation), while the upper part contains layers deposited after the extinction (Katberg Formation). Credit: John Geissman

In Earth’s largest extinction, land die-offs began long before ocean turnover

This mural was originally made for a recent Royal Ontario Museum exhibit about a fossil ankylosaur named Zuul crurivastator. That fossil is found within a couple of meters stratigraphically/temporally of the site described in this paper. The last author on the study, David Evans, is the dinosaur curator at the Royal Ontario Museum and was also involved in the description of Zuul and design of that exhibit. Credit: Danielle Dufault, Royal Ontario Museum.

Late cretaceous dinosaur-dominated ecosystem

Numerous specimens of Kateretidae in a piece of amber from the Institute of Geology and Palaeontology in Nanjing (China). Included are also pollen grains from primitive water lilies. Credit: Georg Oleschinski/Uni Bonn

Beetles changed their diet during the Cretaceous period

Geology Page - March 21, 2020

Roughly 66 million years ago an asteroid slammed into the Yucatan peninsula. New research shows darkness, not cold, likely drove a mass extinction after the impact. Credit: NASA

Darkness, not cold, likely responsible for dinosaur-killing extinction

Geology Page - March 21, 2020

Fossil rudist bivalves (Vaccinites) from the Al-Hajar Mountains, United Arab Emirates. Credit: Wikipedia, Wilson44691 – Own work, Public Domain

Ancient shell shows days were half-hour shorter 70 million years ago

Geology Page - March 17, 2020

Burmese amber with Oculudentavis skull nearly perfectly preserved inside. Credit: Lida Xing

Hummingbird : Smallest Known Dinosaur Found in Amber

Geology Page - March 11, 2020

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Ancient Armadillo The Size Of A Car Discovered By Farmer In...

Geology Page - March 10, 2020

Aneuretopsychidae from Late Cretaceous Burmese amber. Credit: NIGPAS

Amber specimens reveal origin of long mouthpart of scorpionflies

Geology Page - March 8, 2020

Fossilised threads - some as long as four metres - connecting organisms known as rangeomorphs, which dominated Earth's oceans half a billion years ago. Credit: Alex Liu

Half billion-year-old ‘social network’ observed in early animals

Geology Page - March 8, 2020

A tiny lizard forefoot of the genus Anolis is trapped in amber that is about 15 to 20 million years old. Credit: Jonas Barthel

Rare lizard fossil preserved in amber

Geology Page - March 2, 2020

Maculaferrum blaisi, described in a study published in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, is the first hemipteran insect (true bug) to be discovered at the Redmond Formation, a fossil site from the Cretaceous period near Schefferville, Labrador. Credit: Alexandre V. Demers-Potvin

Fossilized wing gives clues about Labrador’s biodiversity during the Cretaceous

Geology Page - March 2, 2020

Mystery has long surrounded the evolution of Facivermis, a worm-like creature that lived approximately 518 million years ago in the Cambrian period. Credit: Franz Anthony

Early worm lost lower limbs for tube-dwelling lifestyle

Geology Page - March 2, 2020

Fossil coral close-up Credit: Aaron O'Dea

Fossils help identify a lone ‘bright spot’ in a similar state...

Geology Page - February 21, 2020

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Vellbergia bartholomaei : Tiny prehistoric lizard sheds light on reptile evolution

Geology Page - February 21, 2020

A group of Russian and German palaeontologists have described a previously unknown genus and species of prehistoric salamanders. The new amphibian is named Egoria malashichevi -- in honor of Yegor Malashichev a talented scientist and associate professor of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology at St Petersburg University, who passed away at the end of 2018. Credit: Pavel Skutschas

Egoria malashichevi : Palaeontologists identify new Jurassic amphibian

Geology Page - February 21, 2020

View of Takarkori shelter from the west. Credit: Savino di Lernia, 2020

Fish in the Sahara? Yes, in the early Holocene

Geology Page - February 21, 2020

NHMUK PV R 9372, Palaeosauropus sp., (a) colour photograph of the original sandstone slab and tracks, (b) 3D digital render of the plaster cast of the sandstone slab and tracks and (c) black and white photograph of the original sandstone slab and tracks. In (b), left manus and pes prints are denoted a and b respectively, the right pes prints c and e, with print d being the right manus. The indented area left of print e is identified as damage to the specimen rather than a footprint impression.

Oldest known record of amphibian tracks in the UK

Geology Page - February 18, 2020

100-million-year-old Discoscapa apicula. The bee is carrying four beetle triungulins. Credit: George Poinar Jr., OSU College of Science.

Fossilized insect from 100 million years ago is oldest record of...

Geology Page - February 15, 2020

The new dinosaur is called Tralkasaurus, which means "thunder reptile" in the indigenous Mapuche language common in Patagonia. In this file photo, a boy in Melbourne, Australia inspects the teeth of a theropod dinosaur

Argentine researchers find distant Tyrannosaurus relative

Geology Page - February 15, 2020

This very complete specimen of the ichthyosaur Suevoleviathan is from the Early Jurassic of Germany. Many excellently preserved ichthyosaur fossils are known from this time and have been collected from the UK and Germany. Mary Anning from Lyme Regis is intimately associated with fossil collection and found the first recognized ichthyosaur fossils in 1810. Credit: Dr Ben Moon & Dr Tom Stubbs

Boom and bust for ancient sea dragons

Geology Page - February 15, 2020

A graphic reconstruction of the giant turtle Stupendemys geographicus: male (front) and female individual (left) swimming in freshwater. Credit: Artwork: Jaime Chirinos

Extinct giant turtle had horned shell of up to three meters

Geology Page - February 15, 2020

A reconstruction of Laurasichersis relicta which lived in the northen hemisphere 66 millons years ago. Credit: José Antonio Peñas (SINC)

One single primitive turtle resisted mass extinction in the northern hemisphere

Geology Page - February 10, 2020

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