A new study published in Scientific Reports uncovers a tragic feeding mistake preserved in stone: Jurassic fish of the genus Tharsis choked to death while attempting to swallow squid-like cephalopods called belemnites. The fossils, found in Germany’s Solnhofen Limestone, offer rare insight into predator-prey dynamics and ecological conditions 150 million years ago. Fossils from a ...
This summer, the latest installment of the Jurassic World franchise, titled Rebirth, will showcase familiar patterns from the franchise while introducing towering titanosaurs and mutant dinosaurs as well as the beloved T. rex. However, bringing such creatures to life on screen in a tangible manner is Dr. Steve Brusatte’s work. Paleontologist Brusatte fixes the monsters ...
For more than 150 million years, science didn’t notice a small, fast-moving dinosaur that lived in the floodplains of Jurassic North America. It lived in the shadow of giants like Stegosaurus and Allosaurus. Palaeontologists are now having to rethink what they thought they knew about how dinosaurs evolved because of a new species called Enigmacursor ...
Deep in Mongolia’s windswept deserts, a long-forgotten fossil has surfaced from the shadows of prehistory exposing a vital missing link in the narrative of the most terrifying predators to have ever trotted the planet. Meet Khan khuluu mongoliensis, the “Dragon Prince of Mongolia,” a recently discovered tyrannosaur that fills in between early, small-sized hunters and ...
Imagine leaving and discovering, from a dinosaur taller than a house, a huge, three-toed footprint pressed into the ground not from a bird. Not science fiction is this situation. Recent findings in Brazil and Cameroon show that dinosaurs did in fact wander areas today including city streets, farms, and highways 120 million years ago. Originally ...
Today’s Arctic is a land of bitterly cold winters, unceasing summer daylight, and a delicate ecology full of migrating birds. But a revolutionary finding in northern Alaska points to an avian paradise far older than we could have ever known. A wealth of 73-million-year-old fossils, including delicate bones of embryos and hatchlings, shows that birds ...
Dinosaur fossils have captivated our minds for decades by providing windows into a lost world of tall predators and gentle giants. But suppose these old bones contain more than just paleontological marvels? Imagine if they could open medical discoveries in our cancer fight. Published in Biology, a groundbreaking study reveals that dinosaur fossils especially their ...
For decades, the megalodon, a terrible shark that ate only whales has been portrayed as the ultimate oceanic horror, its enormous jaws able to crush a car with a single bite. But shockingly more surprising new studies show Otodus megalodon was not the picky whale specialist we thought of. Rather, it was an opportunistic apex ...
Every time you wince from savoring ice cream or feel the sting of hot coffee, you are living a legacy 460 million years in development. According to ground-breaking studies, human teeth started as sensory armor on ancient fish, guiding them across the dangerous waters of the Ordovician period rather than tools for chewing. A study ...
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