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UT Austin Study Raises Question: Why are Fossilized Hairs so Rare?(图)
UT Austin Fossilized Hairs so Rare
2017/9/20
When most people hear the word fossil, they probably think of gigantic leg bones or sharp teeth. But, given the right conditions, after an animal dies even delicate body coverings like skin, hair and ...
Shaking up the fish family tree:'Living fossil' not as old as we thought(图)
shaking up the fish family tree living fossil as old as we thought
2017/9/19
Polypterids are weird and puzzling African fish that have perplexed biologists since they were discovered during Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in the late 1700s.Often called living fossils, these eel...
Paleontologists discover new species of sauropod dinosaur in Tanzania(图)
paleontologists sauropod dinosaur tanzania
2017/9/5
Paleontologists have identified a new species of titanosaurian dinosaur. The research is reported in a paper published this week in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology and is funded by the National...
CofC Professor,Other Scientists Discover New Species of Dolphin(图)
CofC Professor Other Scientists New Species of Dolphin
2017/9/5
A College of Charleston professor has identified a new species of extinct dolphin that provides new evidence of feeding behavior in early cetaceans after a diver found the animal’s fossilized skull in...
Understanding Caribbean Mammal Extinctions of the Past Spurs Renewed Focus on Conservation(图)
caribbean mammal extinctions past spurs renewed focus on conservation
2017/9/5
A Johns Hopkins paleontologist and her collaborative team of scientists report they have clear evidence that the arrival of humans and subsequent human activity throughout the islands of the Caribbean...
Extinction Mystery Solved? Fossil Evidence Suggests Humans Played a Role in Monkey’s Demise in Jamaica(图)
Extinction Mystery Fossil Evidence Humans Played Monkey’s Demise Jamaica
2017/9/4
Radiocarbon dating of a fossilized leg bone from a Jamaican monkey called Xenothrix mcgregori suggests it may be the one of the most recent primate species anywhere in the world to become extinct, and...
Extinction event that wiped out dinosaurs cleared way for frogs
Extinction event wiped out dinosaurs cleared way for frogs
2017/7/24
The mass extinction that obliterated three-fourths of life on Earth, including non-avian dinosaurs, set the stage for the swift rise of frogs, a new study shows.In a paper published this week...
Ancient plankton-like microfossils span two continents
Ancient plankton-like microfossils span two continents
2017/7/25
Large, robust, lens-shaped microfossils from the approximately 3.4 billion-year-old Kromberg Formation of the Kaapvaal craton in eastern South Africa are not only among the oldest elaborate microorgan...
Building a Better Alligator:Researchers Develop Advanced Three-Dimensional Models of Bite Data to Study Dinosaurs,Birds,Crocodiles
Better Alligator Advanced Three-Dimensional Models Bite Data Dinosaurs Birds Crocodiles
2017/7/21
The skulls of alligators protect their brains, eyes and sense organs while producing some of the most powerful bite forces in the animal kingdom. The ability to bite hard is critical for crocodilians ...
Drill holes in fossil shells point to bigger predators picking on small prey
Drill holes fossil shells point predators picking small prey
2017/7/21
The drill holes left in fossil shells by hunters such as snails and slugs show marine predators have grown steadily bigger and more powerful over time but stuck to picking off small prey, rather than ...
National Science Foundation brings 'awesome' science to Awesome Con
National Science Foundation awesome science Awesome Con
2017/7/21
Stand back Wonder Woman, Doctor Who and Bruce Wayne. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is bringing some of its own superheroes to Awesome Con D.C. 2017. Hands-on demos of NSF-funded science and ta...
Lost ecosystem found buried in mud of southern California coastal waters
Lost ecosystem buried in mud southern California coastal waters
2017/7/21
Paleontologists investigating the sea bed off the coast of southern California have discovered a lost ecosystem that for thousands of years had nurtured communities of scallops and shelled marine orga...
Scientists find world’s oldest fossil mushroom(图)
Scientists world’s oldest fossil mushroom
2017/7/21
Roughly 115 million years ago, when the ancient supercontinent Gondwana was breaking apart, a mushroom fell into a river and began an improbable journey. Its ultimate fate as a mineralized fossil pres...
Fossil skeleton confirms earliest primates were tree dwellers
Fossil skeleton primates tree dwellers
2017/7/21
Earth’s earliest primates dwelled in treetops, not on the ground, according to an analysis of a 62-million-year-old partial skeleton discovered in New Mexico — the oldest-known primate skeleton.The sk...
美国古生物学家研究发现霸王龙咬力惊人——相当于3辆小汽车产生的力量(图)
美国古生物学家 霸王龙 咬力
2017/5/24
据新华社微特稿(袁原):美国古生物学家研究发现,霸王龙闭合嘴巴的咬力惊人,能瞬间粉碎骨骼,这相当于3辆小汽车才能产生的力量。古生物学家分析了霸王龙现存“近亲”鳄鱼和鸟类等生物,并结合电脑模型还原霸王龙下颌肌肉,推测霸王龙闭合嘴巴能产生3630公斤咬力,是所有恐龙之最。