Probably, the tooth and the nature of their shift (where there’s new teeth and how they displaced the old jaw) bony fish closer to the original than previously thought, reported in Science. This assumption paleontologists made on the basis of Read more
Paleontologists have discovered in the formation Prince Creek in Alaska, a fragment of mandible dromaeosaurid, a close relative saurornitholestes, reported in PLoS ONE. Previously, there were only separate the teeth of the members of this group. Given the size of Read more
Examining a fragment of the Rovno amber, scientists from and Ukraine have described a new species of beetles of skrytogo from the late Eocene. As noted in the press service of the Moscow state University received by the editors N Read more
Chinese paleontologists have found that the structural color of insects from the Mesozoic can still be seen today, reported in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. For example, well-preserved in Burmese amber, wasps, flies and beetles, they Read more
Birds of the family Plotopteridae, who lived in the late Eocene and early Miocene, the Japanese Islands and the Pacific coast of North America was similar to the penguins not only a lifestyle, but a structure of bones, reported in Read more
Tiger saber-toothed Thylacosmilus atrox, whose remains were discovered on the territory of modern Argentina, apparently, did not kill the prey, and was a scavenger, is reported in PeerJ. Judging by the wear pattern of its large fangs, the animal used Read more
Australian paleontologists have described a new species of fossil marsupials, close to the ancestors of modern wombats, — Mukupirna nambensis. Ancient beast, weighing about 150 pounds, lived in South Australia 25 million years ago. As noted by the authors of Read more
Paleontologists have studied the fossil of a giant egg found in the Cretaceous deposits of Antarctica, and came to the conclusion that it belonged to a seven-meter mosasaur — predatory marine reptiles, related to modern monitor lizards. This is the Read more
The traces of extinct animal near the city of Gyeongju in South Korea that were initially attributed to large pterosaur, was a bipedal footprints crocodylomorpha, reported in Scientific Reports. It is likely that other similar traces do not belong to Read more
Scientists from Europe and the United States have determined which amino acids contained in the shells of eggs of titanosaur age of about 80 million years. Set and the state of the molecules suggests that during this period all peptides Read more