More than two decades of exploration at a Pennsylvania fossil site have given paleontologists their best idea of how a giant, prehistoric predator would have looked and behaved. …read more Source:: Science
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Soft tissue fossil clues could help search for ancient life on Earth and other planets
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•Fossils that preserve entire organisms (including both hard and soft body parts) are critical to our understanding of evolution and ancient life on Earth. However, these exceptional deposits are extremely …read more Source:: Science
‘Rainbow’ dinosaur had iridescent feathers like a hummingbird
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•Scientists discovered a dinosaur fossil with feathers so well-preserved that they were able to see the feathers’ microscopic color-bearing structures. By comparing the shapes of those feather structures with the …read more Source:: Science
Human-made aerosols identified as driver in shifting global rainfall patterns
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•Scientists found that aerosol particles released into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels are a primary driver of changes in rainfall patterns across the globe. …read more Source:: Science
Extinct early whales listened like their relatives on land, fossil evidence shows
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•Whales show surprisingly vast differences in hearing ability. Baleen whales tune into infrasonic sounds to communicate over long distances. Toothed whales do just the opposite, relying on ultrasonic frequencies too …read more Source:: Science
Keratin and melanosomes preserved in 130-million-year-old bird fossil
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•New research has found evidence of original keratin and melanosome preservation in a 130-million-year-old Eoconfuciusornis specimen. The work extends the timeframe in which original molecules may preserve, and demonstrates the …read more Source:: Science
Tooth wear patterns suggest Paranthropus early hominins had softer diets than expected
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•Analysis of wear patterns on fossil teeth from East African hominins suggests the diets of Paranthropus aethiopicus and Paranthropus boisei were softer than had been thought, according to a study. …read more Source:: Science
Early fossil fish from China shows where our jaws came from
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•Where did our jaws come from? The question is more complicated than it seems, because not all jaws are the same. In a new article, palaeontologists from China and Sweden …read more Source:: Science
Washington state finds first dinosaur fossil, T. rex relative bone
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•SEATTLE (Reuters) – Scientists digging among coastal rocks in Washington state have found the partial left femur of a two-legged carnivorous dinosaur, a fossil believed to be about 80 million …read more Source:: UKScienceNews