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SMU paleontologists helped find a new species of pterosaurs in Angola, where fossils of other large marine animals have been found. E. otyikokolo can be seen flying above the ocean in the ancient picture. Artwork by Karen Carr Studio.

New pterosaur species found in sub-Saharan Africa

Artist's reconstruction of Gangtoucunia aspera as it would have appeared in life on the Cambrian seafloor, circa 514 million years ago. The individual in the foreground has part of the skeleton removed to show the soft polyp inside the skeleton. Reconstruction by Xiaodong Wang.

500 million year-old fossils reveal answer to evolutionary riddle

Scallop Pleuronectites from the Triassic period with fluorescent colour pattern; left under normal light, right under UV light. Photo: Klaus Wolkenstein

Glowing fossils: Fluorescence reveals color patterns of earliest scallops

Paleohistological transverse sections of select elements of (A) large- and (B) medium-bodied individuals of the Eutaw ornithomimosaurs, and (C) relative body-size of the Eutaw ornithomimosaurs within known ornithomimosaur taxa through a geological time. Credit: Tsogtbaatar et al., CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Ostrich-like dinosaurs from Mississippi are among the world’s largest at over...

Jeholornis. Image courtesy of Han Hu et al.

Fossil bird’s skull reconstruction reveals a brain made for smelling and...

Calcium oxalate crystals - In living plants, calcium oxalate crystals can take on bizarre shapes (from left: hornbeam, button mangrove, Australian nettle) Credit: © Mahdieh Malekhosseini / University of Bonn

New field of research: Crystal traces in fossil leaves

Scleromochlus taylori. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto

Triassic specimen found to be early relative of pterosaurs a century...

Asteroid impact earth

Dinosaur-killing asteroid triggered global tsunami that scoured seafloor thousands of miles...

The skull of Ichthyosaurs Hauffiopteryx typicus from the Strawberry Bank Lagerstätt, one of the specimens that were the subject of this study Credit: Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Collections

Jurassic ichthyosaurs divided food resources to co-exist, researchers find

Artistic reconstruction of Mbiresaurus raathi (in the foreground) with the rest of the Zimbabwean animal assemblage in the background. It includes two rhynchosaurs (at front right), an aetosaur (at left), and a herrerasaurid dinosaur chasing a cynodont (at back right). Illustration courtesy of Andrey Atuchin.

Discovery and naming of Africa’s oldest known dinosaur

Anak Krakatau in Lampung, Indonesia, in 2018

What killed dinosaurs and other life on Earth?

The Gogo fish fossil where the 380-million-year-old, 3D preserved heart was discovered by researchers. Pictured at the WA Museum. Credit: Yasmine Phillips, Curtin University

380-million-year-old heart discovered

Fossil of Opisthiamimus gregori Fossil skeleton of the new lizard-like reptile Opisthiamimus gregori. The fossil was discovered in the Morrison Formation of the Bighorn Basin, north-central Wyoming, and dates to the Late Jurassic Period, approximately 150 million years ago. Credit: David DeMar for the Smithsonian Institution.

Discovery of extinct prehistoric reptile that lived among dinosaurs

The upper jaw of the infant of Yuanmoupithecus. Image courtesy of Terry Harrison, NYU's Department of Anthropology.

Early gibbon fossil found in southwest China: Discovery fills evolutionary history...

Earth is bombarded at random-GeologyPage

More than one asteroid could have spelled doom for the dinosaurs

Thalassotitan atrox grew up to 12 metres (40 feet) and was at the top of the food chain.

Fossils of giant sea lizard that ruled the oceans 66 million...

Skull and life reconstruction of Tyrannosaurus rex with original eye socket and eye (left) and hypothetical reconstruction with circular eye socket and enlarged eye (right). (Image credit: Dr Stephan Lautenschlager, University of Birmingham).

Dinosaurs evolved different eye socket shapes to allow stronger bites

Computer modelling showed sauropod feet had a soft tissue pad. Image: Dr Andreas Jannel

Prehistoric podiatry: How dinos carried their enormous weight

Spinosaurid dinosaurs teeth

The speed at which spinosaurid dinosaur teeth were replaced accounts for...

Plesiosaurus and spinosaurus may have both inhabited freshwater rivers

Plesiosaur fossils found in the Sahara suggest they weren’t just marine...

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