Categoria: paleontology

Wyoming dinosaur mummies give us a new view of duck-billed species

novembro 15, 2025 n Jacek Krywkon

Exquisitely preserved fossils come from a single site in Wyoming.

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World’s oldest RNA extracted from Ice Age woolly mammoth

novembro 14, 2025 n Ashley Balzer-Vigiln

Sequencing an ancient creature’s RNA opens up a new window into extinct life.

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New study settles 40-year debate: Nanotyrannus is a new species

outubro 30, 2025 n Jennifer Ouelletten

“This fossil doesn’t just settle the debate. It flips decades of T. rex research on its head.”

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Dinosaurs may have flourished right up to when the asteroid hit

outubro 23, 2025 n John Timmern

Fossil beds in New Mexico show diverse species present in the late Cretaceous.

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150 million-year-old pterosaur cold case has finally been solved

setembro 28, 2025 n Elizabeth Raynen

The storm literally snapped the bones in their wings.

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New dinosaur species is the punk rock version of an ankylosaur

agosto 28, 2025 n John Timmern

A species known only by a single rib turns out to be covered with meter-long spikes.

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For giant carnivorous dinosaurs, big size didn’t mean a big bite

agosto 8, 2025 n Jacek Krywkon

The biomechanics of dinosaur skulls say T. rex was the king of bite force.

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Enigmatic hominin species studied using 2 million-year-old proteins

maio 29, 2025 n John Timmern

We weren’t even sure if Paranthropus remains come from a single species.

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