Tag Archives: Fossilized

A two-toed sloth at the Nashville Zoo. Larisa R. G. DeSantis Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-size, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today’s sloths – commonly featured on children’s backpacks, stationery and lunch boxes – are slow-moving creatures, living inconspicuously in Central American and South American rainforests. But their gigantic Pleistocene ancestors that inhabited the Americas as …

The world of botany is usually pretty good at following certain rules. It was previously thought that because the Fibonacci sequence is present in the structure of so many extant plant species, it must have evolved in some of the earliest living plant species. However, an ancient species, one of the first examples of a plant with leaves in the fossil record, …

A groundbreaking study published in Current Biology, titled “Carnivorous dinosaur lineages adopt different skull performances at gigantic size”, has revealed striking differences in the hunting strategies of the world’s largest predatory dinosaurs. By analyzing fossilized skulls, researchers found that while some species were adept at slicing through massive slabs of flesh, others had evolved jaws capable of delivering formidable, bone-crushing …

A groundbreaking discovery in southern China has revealed a 400-mile-long chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below the Sichuan Basin, a region historically part of the Yangtze Block. The findings, outlined in a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, shed light on the ancient volcanic activity that took place during the early breakup of the supercontinent …

Researchers have discovered a 400-mile-long chain of extinct, fossilized volcanoes buried deep below South China. The volcanoes formed when two tectonic plates collided during the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia hundreds of millions of years ago, the scientists reported in a new study. The ancient volcanoes extend the region of past volcanism in this area by several hundred miles and …

Fossilized penis worm suggests Grand Canyon was an evolutionary hotbed  The Washington Post Grand Canyon Fossils Offer Glimpse Into When Complex Life Appeared  The New York Times Stunning Grand Canyon Fossils Reveal Evolution’s Weird Experiments  ScienceAlert Treasure trove of half-billion-year-old animal fossils in Grand Canyon  cosmosmagazine.com Fossil discovery reveals the Grand Canyon was a ‘Goldilocks zone’ for the evolution of early animals  Phys.org Source link