Charisia/Shutterstock Fans of dragons from the fantasy genre will be excited about new discoveries related to the Dinocephalosaurus orientalis. This dinosaur is from the Triassic Period, about 240 million years ago. It hasn’t been called a dragon because it sits on a pile of gold like Smaug or hangs out with Daenerys …
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A bizarre reptile once scurried through the Triassic treetops with an extravagant crest on its back, one made from neither scale, nor bone, nor feather. The extinct creature’s 247-million-year-old fossils immediately stood out to paleontologists. The impressive appendage on its back looks like a frill of overlapping feathers at first glance, but it’s much older than the earliest fossilized feather, …
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The special brains of spiders may have started to evolve in the oceans, long before their ancestors crawled onto land. A fresh look at a 500-million-year-old fossil by researchers from the University of Arizona and Lycoming College in the US and King’s College London has revealed remarkable similarities between the brains of extinct marine arthropods and modern-day arachnids. The discovery …
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In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers from Harvard University and the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute have uncovered ancient proteins hidden in fossilized teeth, offering a deeper glimpse into the lives and evolutionary history of extinct animals. Published in the renowned journal Nature, their study reveals how proteins, long considered too fragile to survive millions of years, are preserved within the enamel …
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Paleontologists have discovered the skeletal remains of an entirely new, yet-to-be-named species of massopodan sauropodomorph dinosaur in the Klettgau Formation in Canton Aargau, Switzerland. Articulated skull of the new massopodan sauropodomorph dinosaur in right lateral view. Scale bars – 5 cm. Image credit: Lania et al., doi: 10.1186/s13358-025-00373-6. The newly-discovered fossil dates back to the Norian age of the Late …
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The world is on the brink of a breakthrough in the climate fight and fossil fuels are running out of road, the UN chief said on Tuesday, as he urged countries to funnel support into low-carbon energy. More than nine in 10 renewable power projects globally are now cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives. Solar power is about 41% cheaper than …
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In a remarkable stroke of luck, a 240-million-year-old amphibian fossil was uncovered in a pile of rocks used for building a garden retaining wall in New South Wales, Australia. This unprecedented find has offered researchers a fascinating glimpse into the Triassic period, revealing the life of an ancient species that once roamed the rivers of what is now Australia. The …
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Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer Solar System. The object was found as part of the survey project FOSSIL (Formation of the Outer Solar System: An Icy Legacy), which takes advantage of the Subaru Telescope’s wide field of view. The object was …
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This week, scientists have, for the first time, observed matter-antimatter asymmetry in special particle decay, the first known trilobite fossil collected by Romans may have been used as a “magical” pendant or as a board game piece, and the “earliest moment” of planet formation has been spotted for the first time around a star 1,300 light-years away. Finally, we investigate …
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