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Life restoration of Elessaurus gondwanoccidens, from the Sanga do Cabral Formation (Lower Triassic), Brazil. Credit: Márcio L. Castro

New fossil from Brazil hints at the origins of the mysterious...

The common name “coquí” describes various species of frogs in the genus Eleutherodactylus and is derived from two species’ distinctive chirping calls. The common coquí, Eleutherodactylus coquí, is the national symbol of Puerto Rico. Photo courtesy of Alberto Lopez Torres

Coquí fossil from Puerto Rico takes title of oldest Caribbean frog

We know that birds, such as this Archaeopteryx, evolved from dinosaurs but there have been persistent questions about how common the feathers were amongst their extinct relatives © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London

The first dinosaurs probably didn’t have feathers

One of the biggest gaps in the arthropod fossil record was what the ancestors to millipedes and centipedes looked like, but now that gap has been filled. Credit: Katja Schulz/Wikimedia Commons

Aquatic ancestors of terrestrial millipedes characterized for the first time

Image: Rowan Webb

UNE creates world’s first online human skeleton

Although turtles belong to the reptiles, their skulls differs markedly from those of other members of this group. Credit: I. Werneburg

Shell puzzle: An additional piece added to the evolution of turtles

Holotype of calamitalean sphenopsid Annularia paisii sp. nov. showing an insect-induced gall

Annularia paisii : New species of ancient horsetail with gall with...

Flake of clear yellow amber from Anglesea, Victoria containing a new, beautifully preserved biting midge ca. 41 million years old. Credit: Enrique Peñalver.

Fossil trove sheds light on ancient antipodean ecology

sedimentary bedding

Quantitative reconstruction of formation paleo-pressure and case studies

Photograph of the fossil sandgrouse Linxiavis inaquosus (left) with a fabricated-color image (right) of the bird's skeleton based on CT scanning data Credit: IVPP

Sandgrouse : Six million-year-old bird skeleton points to arid past of...

Image shows artwork of the Afrotapejara zouhrii. Credit: Megan Jacobs, Baylor University, Texas

Palaeobiologists have identified another new species of pterosaur

A new feathered dinosaur that lived in New Mexico 67 million years ago is one of the last known surviving raptor species, according to a new publication in the journal Scientific Reports. Dineobellator notohesperus adds to scientists' understanding of the paleo-biodiversity of the American Southwest, offering a clearer picture of what life was like in this region near the end of the reign of the dinosaurs. Credit: Sergey Krasovskiy

Dineobellator notohesperus : New feathered dinosaur was one of the last...

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

Ancestor of all animals identified in Australian fossils

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...

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

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

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

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