!palaeontology
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https://phys.org/news/2024-09-pterosaurs-soar-flight-capability-giants.html
Some species of pterosaurs flew by flapping their wings while others soared like vultures, demonstrates a new study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
https://svpow.com/2024/09/12/if-i-could-dissect-a-sauropod/
Luke Horton asked in a comment on a recent post: Given the chance to examine a titanosaur cadaver with your hypothetical army of anatomists, what would you look for first? *FACEPALM* How we’v…
https://www.iflscience.com/we-are-pleased-to-inform-you-there-are-probably-dinosaur-remains-on-the-moon-58393
https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/08/29/a-mammoth-may-be-hiding-below-a-north-dakota-garage/
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-dinosaur-footprints-sides-atlantic-ocean.html
An international team of researchers led by SMU paleontologist Louis L. Jacobs has found matching sets of Early Cretaceous dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents.
https://www.wunc.org/science-technology/2024-07-16/new-dinosaur-underground-fona-herzogae-nc-museum-natural-sciences
The 99-million-year-old fossils of Fona herzogae may help paleontologists fill in gaps in evolutionary history and share insight into how animals are impacted by a changing environment.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-13/new-species-pterosaur-fossil-find-kronosaurus-korner-queensland/103967028
Fossilised remains thought to be 100 million years old have been identified as a new species of pterosaur, a powerful flying predator with a wingspan of up to 12 metres.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-05-27/meet-the-echidnapus-from-an-age-of-monotremes-in-australia/103849096
The "echidnapus" is one of the newly described ancient monotremes from a fossil hotspot in NSW that could give us more clues about an era when egg-laying mammals diversified.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2024/june/face-ancient-australian-giga-goose-revealed-after-fossil-skull-found.html
After more than a century of searching, the head of one of the largest ever birds has been found.