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paleontology
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The Island of Small Dinosaurs and Giant Apex Pterosaurs
PBS Eons gives viewers a glimpse into the evolutionary mysteries surrounding the ancient Hațeg Island which existed during…
Nerve Tissue Impressions Preserved In 500-Million-Year-Old Arthropod Fossils
It’s true that nature certainly seems relentless, in that it is only capable of preserving such a small…
How Teeth Changed the Evolution Game (And Why Some Animals Lost Them Anyway)
There’s a conundrum in the paleontological community that’s been going on for quite some time. Did teeth evolve…
Greenland Greets “Cold Bone,” Its First Native Dinosaur Find
Greenland has been a place of intrigue since time immemorial. It is the largest island on Earth, sitting…
100-Million-Year-Old Lacewing Larvae Trapped in Myanmar Amber Reveal Their Intriguing Features
For decades now, scientists have been on a constant search for finding clues about our planet’s vast, ancient…
T. rex—the 2021 Update
YouTube channel SciShow takes us through the paces of our current understanding of one of the most fearsome…
A Throwback to the Time When Fish Were Armored
PBS Eons brings us back to the time of early Earth—earlier than even the dinosaurs—when fish wore armor…
Evidence of “Complex” Dinosaur Herding Found In Mussaurus “Graveyard”
The South American region of Patagonia, straddled between Argentina and Chile, has always been famous in the world…
Recent Dinosaur Biomechanical Studies Reveal Their Bipedal “Tail-Wagging”
With how frequent dinosaurs appear in popular media, you’d think we would have dinosaur movements down pat by…
New Dinosaur Finds Imply European Origins of the Spinosaurids
The 2001 film Jurassic Park III revealed to the world one of the most peculiar—yet absolutely fearsome—dinosaurs to…