400-Million-Year-Old Fossils of Enigmatic Jawed Vertebrate Unearthed in Australia

400-Million-Year-Old Fossils of Enigmatic Jawed Vertebrate Unearthed in Australia

Palaeospondylus gunnia little animal with an eel-like body that lived throughout the Middle Devonian date around 390 million years earlier, is represented by countless likewise protected fossils from Achannaras quarry…

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1st tardigrade fossils ever discovered hint at how they survived Earth’s biggest mass extinction

1st tardigrade fossils ever discovered hint at how they survived Earth’s biggest mass extinction

(Image credit: Marc Mapalo) Tardigrades are widely known for being almost unbreakable. Now, researchers have actually reanalyzed ancient, amber-encased fossils, exposing when the super-tough animals might have very first got…

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Fossils of bone-crushing and meat-slashing Tasmanian tiger ancestors discovered in Australia

Fossils of bone-crushing and meat-slashing Tasmanian tiger ancestors discovered in Australia

An illustration of Badjcinus timfaulkneri utilizing its effective jaws to delight in a wombat-like marsupial. (Image credit: Illustration by Peter Schouten.) Researchers have actually determined a “bone-crushing” forefather of the…

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New Fossils from Jordan Provide Insight into Flight Capacity of Large Pterosaurs

New Fossils from Jordan Provide Insight into Flight Capacity of Large Pterosaurs

Paleontologists have actually uncovered the fossilized remains of 2 various large-bodied azhdarchoid pterosaur types– the brand-new types Inabtanin alarabia and the formerly understood types Arambourgiania philadelphiae — in the Upper…

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