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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more...
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@mander.xyzhttps://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://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/
Some mammoth bones have been gnawing at North Dakota State Geologist Ed Murphy for more than 35 years. Murphy on Tuesday described for the North Dakota Industrial Commission how he became aware of a find of mammoth bones in 1988. He updated the commission, which oversees the North Dakota Geological Survey, because his department, in […]
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_4x_PmGxB4
You’ve heard of Tyrannosaurus rex, but did you know they might have a mini-cousin called Nanotyrannus? And that “might” is serious, because researchers have ...