Paleontologists Find First Known Fossils of Living Tropical Tree Species
The fossils of the huge jungle tree Dryobalanops rappa discovered in Brunei (formally Brunei Darussalam), a nation on the big island of Borneo, are the very first fossil proof of…
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Paleontologists Solve Mystery of Spine-Covered Cambrian Fossil
Translated as a primitive Cambrian mollusk, Shishania aculeata — a 500-million-year-old spine-covered fossil discovered in China’s Yunnan province– remains in truth a far-off relative of sponge-like animals referred to as…
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Paleontologists Describe New Species of Rhabdodontid Dinosaur
Called Obelignathus septimanicusthe brand-new types populated the European Archipelago around 72 million years earlier (Cretaceous duration) and came from a household of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaurs called Rhabdodontidae. Life repair of…
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Paleontologists Discover New Species of Sauropodomorph Dinosaur
Meet Xingxiulong yueoruma brand-new types of early-diverging sauropodomorph dinosaur that resided in what is now China throughout the Early Jurassic date. The fossilized skeleton of Xingxiulong yueorumImage credit: Chinese Academy…
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Paleontologists Find World’s Oldest Known Megaraptorid, Australia’s First Carcharodontosaur Fossils
Paleontologists have actually discovered 5 brand-new theropod fossils from the Cretaceous duration, consisting of 2 carcharodontosaurian specimens, in Victoria, Australia. The landscape of Cretaceous Australia. Image credit: Jonathan Metzger/ Museums…
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Paleontologists Discover Footprints of Large Hadrosaurid Dinosaurs in Gobi Desert
Paleontologists from Japan and Mongolia have actually revealed fossil footprints of huge plant-eating hadrosaurid dinosaurs from the Cretaceous duration. The footprints of a huge hadrosaurid dinosaur in the western Gobi…
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Paleontologists Describe New Species of Predatory Dinosaur
Paleontologists have actually explained a brand-new genus and types of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur based upon representations of the now-destroyed specimen from the Bahariya Formation in Egypt. Life restoration of Tameryraptor…
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Paleontologists Discover New Species of Sauropodomorph Dinosaur in China
The newly-discovered dinosaur types, Lishulong wangidepends on the heart of the early sauropodomorph-sauropod shift, according to a paper released in the journal PeerJ Picture (A )and interpretative line illustration(B)of the…
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Paleontologists Discover New Species of Ankylosaurid Dinosaur
A new genus and species of ankylosaur has been identified from an articulated and partial skeleton found in 1986 in southern China. The artistic reconstruction of Huaxiazhoulong shouwen. Image credit:…
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Paleontologists Unveil New Species of Sauropod Dinosaur
Fossilized stays discovered in Patagonia, Argentina back in 2009 represent a brand-new genus and types of plant-eating dinosaur that came from a group called Rebbachisauridae. Campananeyen fragilissimusImage credit: Fundación Azara….
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