Paleontology Fearsome Tyrannosaurs Were Social Animals, Study Suggests (Paleontology) 20 Apr 2021 The report, based on research at a unique fossil site in Utah, provides new evidence that tyrannosaurs were social carnivores and not solitary hunters as popularly envisioned. The fearsome tyrannosaur…
Paleontology Analysis of Famous Fossil Helps Unlock When Humans And Apes Diverged (Paleontology) 20 Apr 2021 The USC-led study examined the shoulder assembly of Little Foot, an Australopithecus that lived more than 3 million years ago, and may have confirmed how our human ancestors used their arms. A…
Paleontology Tarantula’s Ubiquity Traced Back to the Cretaceous (Paleontology) 17 Apr 2021 Tarantulas are among the most notorious spiders, due in part to their size, vibrant colors and prevalence throughout the world. But one thing most people don’t know is that tarantulas…
Paleontology New Amphibious Centipede Species Discovered in Okinawa and Taiwan (Paleontology) 17 Apr 202117 Apr 2021 Godly proportions for rare jade Scolopendra named after local gods, one of the largest arthropods in Japan Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University and Hosei University have discovered a new species of large,…
Paleontology New Jurassic Flying Reptile Reveals the Oldest Opposed Thumb (Paleontology) 14 Apr 2021 A new 160-million-year-old arboreal pterosaur species, dubbed ‘Monkeydactyl’, has the oldest true opposed thumb - a novel structure previously not known in pterosaurs. An international team of researchers from China,…
Paleontology Gigantic Flying Pterosaurs Had Spoked Vertebrae to Support Their ‘Ridiculously Long’ Necks (Paleontology) 14 Apr 2021 Little is known about azhdarchid pterosaurs, gigantic flying reptiles with impressive wingspans of up to 12 meters. Cousins of dinosaurs and the largest animals ever to fly, they first appeared…
Paleontology Short duration of the Yixian Formation and ‘Chinese Dinosaurs Pompeii’ (Paleontology) 14 Apr 202114 Apr 2021 The Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota, renowned for its exceptionally well preserved volcanic-influenced ecosystem, was buried in lacustrine and occasionally fluvial sediments in northern Hebei and western Liaoning, China. It includes…
