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Science News | Paleontology
5d ago
The 50-million-year-old Pegasus volans isn't closely related to seamoths or oarfish, like some researchers have suggested. But what is it ..read more
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3w ago
The fossil, plus 17 others from more than 500 million years ago, reveal that early mollusks were slug-like creatures with prickly armor ..read more
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3w ago
The Chicxulub crater, left behind by the impact, contains elemental traces that suggest the origins of the notorious projectile ..read more
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1M ago
Studying the reptile’s ironclad teeth in more detail could help solve a dinosaur dental mystery ..read more
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2M ago
A new technique for probing the 3-D structure of ancient DNA may help scientists learn how extinct animals functioned, not just what they looked like ..read more
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2M ago
Well-preserved fossils from Morocco help paleontologists understand the weird way trilobites ate and perhaps why these iconic animals went extinct ..read more
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2M ago
The last population of woolly mammoths did not go extinct 4,000 years ago from inbreeding, a new analysis shows ..read more
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3M ago
The earliest ants may have been primed for a highly social life — 100 million years ago, the insects had antennae tuned to key communication functions ..read more
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3M ago
The fossil discoveries double the number of known monotreme species during the Cretaceous Period ..read more
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4M ago
A debate over how to count neurons in dinosaurs is raising questions about how to understand extinct animals’ behavior ..read more