Jurassic fossil from China rewrites history of bird evolution
Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...
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Palaeontology articles from across Nature Portfolio
Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse them.
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66 million years ago, a fish chewed up and spit out food. It's now a fossil in Denmark
The fossil was found at a cliff in Denmark. Fossilized vomit is called regurgitalite, and it's a type of trace fossil, which tells scientists about an organism's daily life.
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It’s not causing panic! in the fossil record, but a 430-million-year-old mollusk discovery in Britain is a source of excitement for some scientists. Scientists say the snail darter, whose ...
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Fossil Fuel Billionaires Boost Wealth by $3 Billion After Trump’s Inauguration
The connection between Trump’s rise and policy choices and American business leaders is especially true for the top fossil fuel billionaires, says the Climate Accountability Research Project (CARP).
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Rediscovered fossil reveals rare bird skull from 45 million years ago
The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former ... Up until 10 years ago, for example, it was assumed that Diatryma hunted prehistoric horses in the Geiseltal. More recent investigations ...
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Romanian fossils show hominins in Europe 500,000 years earlier than thought
Research led by the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Ohio University has found evidence of hominin activity at a Romanian fossil site dating to at least 1.95 million years ago.
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On Day 1 of presidency, Trump begins to move U.S. away from climate action and toward fossil fuels
President Donald Trump, in a flurry of climate and energy-related orders on Monday, made it clear he wants to turn his back on nearly a decade of climate action and smooth the way for the fossil ...
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9-million-year-old fossil of colossal Great White Shark ancestor discovered
In the scorching desert of Peru’s Pisco Basin, a major fossil discovery has been made. Paleontologists have unearthed the nearly complete fossil of a colossal shark that prowled the ancient seas ...
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Giant horned dinosaur discovered in Egypt after fossils were destroyed in World War 2
At the time, paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach (1871-1952) assigned the fossil to the genus Carcharodontosaurus, meaning shark-toothed lizard. Measuring about 10 metres long ...
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Rewriting Prehistory: Archaeologists Have Discovered That Our Ancient Ancestors Were Vegetarian
The Sterkfontein excavation site, which exposes the ancient deposits that once formed underground and contain Australopithecus fossils. The fossil-bearing ... not regularly hunt large mammals like, ...