Paleontology

Paleontologists Reconstruct Four-Million-Year-Old Shark Attack

Palaeontologists have discovered evidence of how an extinct shark attacked its prey, reconstructing a killing that took place 4 million years ago. Such fossil evidence of behavior is incredibly rare, but by careful, forensic-style analysis of bite marks on ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2010 - 1:02pm

Linheraptor Exquisitus- New Raptor Species Discovered In Mongolia

Paleontologists have discovered a new raptor species in Inner Mongolia.  The exceptionally well preserved dinosaur, named Linheraptor exquisitus, is the first near complete skeleton of its kind to be found in the Gobi desert since 1972, and will help scien ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2010 - 3:57pm

Widespread Volcanic Activity Led To Rise Of The Dinosaurs

A newly constructed climate record from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary explains how the dinosaurs rose to prominence as the Triassic Period ended, says an international team of geologists and paleobiologists writing in PNAS. Researchers reconstructed the c ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:05pm

Utah's Red Rocks Yield New Dinosaur- Seitaad Ruessi

Utah's red rocks have yielded a rare skeleton of a new species of plant-eating dinosaur, Seitaad ruess i, that lived 185 million years ago and may have been buried alive by a collapsing sand dune. The discovery confirms the widespread success of sauro ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:05pm

Ornithuromorph Discovery Reveals Details Of Avian Evolution

Paleontologists have discovered a new bird fossil in northeast China that provides more evidence for a specialized group of small birds that diversified during the Early Cretaceous between about 130 and 120 million years ago. The discovery also suggests th ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2010 - 1:14pm

Hip Bone Proves Tyrannosaurs Made It To The South

Scientists have identified a hip bone found at Dinosaur Cove in Victoria, Australia that belonged to an ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex. The discovery is the first evidence that tyrannosaur dinosaurs existed on southern continents. The find, published in Sci ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2010 - 4:27pm

New Cloudina Species Discovered In Spain

Palaeontologists have discovered a new fossil species called Cloudina carinata, a small fossil with a tubular appearance and one of the first animals that developed an external skeleton between 550 and 543 million years ago. The discovery is documented in ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:05pm

Diplodocus Skull Changed During Growth, Recovered Fossil Shows

A team of paleontologists said this week that some sauropod species went through drastic changes in skull shape during normal growth. Researchers came to the conclusion after examining the The skull of a juvenile sauropod dinosaur, rediscovered in the coll ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2010 - 6:17pm

Euryperids: Ancient Predators of Permian Seas

About two dozen families of eurypterids “sea scorpions” are known from the fossil record. Although these ancient predators have a superficial similarity, including a defensive needle-like spike or telson at their tail end, they are not true scorpions. The ...

Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Apr 4 2010 - 11:26am

Australopithecus Sediba: Missing Link Discovered... Again

We've had our first missing link of 2010.  What, you ask?   Was the missing link not discovered twice even last year?  Well, yes, if you read the mainstream media it happens quite often.  And it is happening again this week so look for plenty of news ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 8 2010 - 1:01pm