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University of Pennsylvania paleontologist Steven Jasinski has announced the discovery of a previously unknown species of fossil turtle in the Gray Fossil Site, an area rich with fossils in eastern Tennessee, the United States. Trachemys haugrudi represents a new species of fossil turtle that lived in what is now eastern …

A groundbreaking new technique for studying lake sediments can tell scientists more about the frequency and intensity of past and future insect epidemics, their impact on the forest environment and how they are linked to climate change. A well-preserved scale extracted from a lake sediment core. Image credit: Montoro Girona …

Around 90 million years ago, eastern and western North America were isolated from each other by a salty sea, creating two landmasses: Appalachia and Laramidia. The ancestors of Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus strutted about on the latter in what would one day become Utah and Alberta, leaving plentiful bones behind. A …

Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi) may have moved like modern elephants with infants in matriarchal groups. That’s according to a team of U.S. paleontologists who analyzed numerous footprints of adult, juvenile and infant mammoths recently found at the Pleistocene locality of Fossil Lake in central Oregon. Footprints of Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus …

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of fossil fish from 90 million-year-old (Cretaceous period) deposits in Colombia. A paper reporting this discovery is published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. Candelarhynchus padillai. Image credit: Oksana Vernygora. Dubbed Candelarhynchus padillai, the new species is the first fossil ‘lizardfish’ from the Cretaceous …

A remarkable tailed arachnid found in the mid-Cretaceous (approximately 100 million years ago) Burmese amber of Myanmar documents a key transition stage in spider evolution. Chimerarachne yingi resembles a spider in having fangs, male pedipalps, four walking legs and silk-producing spinnerets at its rear. However, it also bears a long …

The 200 million-year-old specimen is only the second known example of Wahlisaurus massarae, a species of ichthyosaur announced recently by a University of Manchester paleontologist. Reconstruction of Wahlisaurus massarae. Image credit: James McKay. Ichthyosaurs were predatory sea-going reptiles that ranged in size from 1 to 69 feet (0.3-21 m) long. …

Paleontologists in Egypt have found fossil fragments from a new species of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that walked the Earth around 80 million years ago (Cretaceous period). Life reconstruction of Mansourasaurus shahinae. Image credit: Andrew McAfee, Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Dubbed Mansourasaurus shahinae, the ancient beast was a type of …

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“What I was amazed by was how well this new discovery suits the brand-new photo that’s emerging of the development of Homo sapiens,” stated Julia Galway-Witham, a research study assistant at the Nature Museum in London who wrote an accompanying perspective short article. Dr. Hawks and other scientists encouraged care …