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paleontology
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A rhino died after a volcano erupted. Something remarkable was left behind.
A rhino-shaped cavity in pillow basalt near Blue Lake formed when lava cooled around a rhino carcass 15…
100-million-year-old fossil find reveals huge flying reptile that patrolled Australia’s inland sea
Gabriel Ugueto Adele Pentland, Curtin University One hundred million years ago, during the Cretaceous period, much of northeastern…
The Triassic Period Was Weird
Life on Earth has existed for millions to billions of years, during which a vast array of unique…
Is it a small T-rex cousin, or is it just a baby T-rex?
Found in Montana’s Hell Creek formation, the Cleveland skull was originally classified as Gorgosaurus but later proposed as…
How Do Sponges Keep Coming Back From the Brink?
Multiple fossil sites across South China, including Anji and other locations, show hyperdiverse sponge communities immediately following the…
Why Do Animals Keep Turning Into Crocodiles?
Crocodiles and their family members share an ancient evolutionary history. What’s usually not known, however, is that nature…
Finding the Largest Animal That Ever Flew
The evolution of powered flight has opened up various possibilities for animal lineages, enabling them to move over…
Ancient Giant Salmon Unveiled: New Study Reveals ‘Spike-Toothed’ Species
(Header image: (Claeson et al., 2024)) At a Glance A recent study published in the open-access journal PLOS…
Africa is full of bats, but their fossils are scarce – why these rare records matter
Mariëtte Pretorius, University of the Witwatersrand Africa is home to more than 20% of the world’s bat population.…
How a teenager helped identify a new species of giant marine reptile
Artist’s impression of a washed-up Ichthyotitan severnensis carcass on the beach. Sergey Krasovskiy, CC BY-SA Dean Lomax, University of Manchester…