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Wildfires may have sparked ecosystem collapse during Earth’s worst mass extinction

Ricky Kaka - July 10, 2022 0

Researchers from University College Cork (UCC) and the Swedish Museum of Natural History studied the end-Permian mass extinction (252 million years ago), which wiped out almost every species on Earth and collapsed entire ecosystems. The researchers discovered a significant increase in wildfire activity as...

Paleontology & Fossils

Paleontologists have identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest-ever land-based hunter’s dinosaur

Surekha Barfa - June 13, 2022 0

Paleontologists at the University of Southampton have discovered the remains of one of Europe's largest land-based hunts, a 10m-long dinosaur that lived some 125 million years ago. Several prehistoric bones discovered on the Isle of Wight, on England's south coast, and housed at the...

Paleontology & Fossils

Fossils show a crocodile ancestor dined on a young dinosaur

Maruti Shah - February 26, 2022 0

Scientists have found evidence that an ancient crocodile ancestor chowed down on a dinosaur. A member of a newfound species dubbed Confractosuchus sauroktonos, preserved within a fossilized crocodyliform, are the partially digested remains of a juvenile bipedal ornithopod. University of New England in Australia, paleontologist Matt...

Paleontology & Fossils

Ancient plant fossils discovery in Washington points to paleobotanic mystery

Surekha Barfa - February 21, 2022 0

A new description of two well-preserved ancient fossil plant specimens is prompting paleobotanists to rethink how plants might have been dispersed during the Late Cretaceous. It was between 66 million and 100 million years ago. The research has been published in New Phytologist. The study...

Evolution

Fossils excavated in the 1960s add missing link to crocodile evolution

Surekha Barfa - February 13, 2022 0

A set of Triassic archosaur fossils have been excavated in the 1960s in Tanzania. They have been formally recognized as a distinct species. They represent one of the earliest-known members of the crocodile evolutionary lineage. University of Birmingham, Natural History Museum and Virginia Tech University...

Paleontology & Fossils

AI will revolutionize how we research dinosaur fossils

Anushree Kole - January 27, 2022 0

Artificial intelligence technologies can identify tumour by high-resolution medical imagery. Scientists have used the technology to analyse similar scans of dinosaur fossils. The study has been published in Frontiers in Earth Science. Dinosaurs’ fossil relies on the morphology of the preserved remains of the animals....

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