Preserved in 99 million-year-old Burmese amber paleontologists found a tick grasping a dinosaur feather. The discovery, reported in the journal Nature Communications, is remarkable because fossils of blood-feeding parasites directly associated with remains of their host are exceedingly scarce, and the new specimen is the oldest known to date. Hard …
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Paleontologists have found the fossil remains of a giant prehistoric penguin that lived about 59 to 56 million years ago (Paleocene epoch) in what is now New Zealand. Artististic reconstruction of the Paleocene giant penguin Kumimanu biceae. Image credit: Senckenberg Research Institute. The giant penguin’s remains were found in the …
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Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a completely unexpected semi-aquatic theropod dinosaur that lived 75 million years ago in what is now Mongolia. An artist’s rendering of Halszkaraptor escuilliei. Image credit: Lukas Panzarin / Andrea Cau. The new dinosaur, named Halszkaraptor escuilliei, is a strange new anomaly in the …
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Paleontologists have discovered a new species of carnivorous marsupial lion that lived 26 to 18 million years ago (late Oligocene to early Miocene) in Australia’s rainforests. Reconstruction of Wakaleo schouteni challenging the thylacinid Nimbacinus dicksoni over a kangaroo carcass in the late Oligocene forest at Riversleigh, Australia. Image credit: Peter …
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An analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA from fossils of extinct New World stilt-legged horses reveals that, contrary to previous findings, these enigmatic animals actually belonged outside of the horse genus Equus. This illustration depicts a family of New World stilt-legged horses (Haringtonhippus francisci) in Yukon, Canada, during the last …
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An international team of paleontologists has discovered a fossil-rich site with more than 200 fossilized eggs of the Cretaceous pterosaur species Hamipterus tianshanensis in China. Life restoration of Hamipterus tianshanensis. Image credit: Chuang Zhao. To date, only a small handful of pterosaur eggs with a well-preserved 3D structure and embryo …
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A study published this week in the journal Palaeontology has revealed new details about feathers of the chicken-sized, feathered, bird-like dinosaur Anchiornis. A new depiction of Anchiornis and its contour feather. Image credit: Rebecca Gelernter. Anchiornis lived in what is now northeastern China during the Jurassic period, about 160 million …
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Bugs appeared on our planet around 400 million years back and managed to endure through all the natural disasters. Some of us believe that they’re not extremely enjoyable, however this is far from true. Do not you believe us? Intense Side gathered for you photos of terrific animals that …
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The trackway of a plant-eating sauropod dinosaur has been excavated in the Jura Mountains, France. This 508-foot (155 m) line of footsteps is the longest known trackway of a sauropod. The 110-step trackway represents a new ichnospecies, Brontopodus plagnensis, and extends over 508 feet — a world record for sauropods, …
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A research team led by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee paleoecologist Erik Gulbranson has found the fossil remnants of a Permian-age forest on the frozen slopes of the McIntyre Promontory in the Transantarctic Mountains. Dr. Erik Gulbranson working in Antarctica. Image credit: Peter Rejcek, NSF. The fossil forest dates back to the …
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