Early mammals were all one color, study suggests
The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...
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Fossils reveal what the fur of early mammals looked like
A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...
Dinosaur tracks, made 140 million years ago, have been found for the first time in South Africa’s Western Cape
Ichnology is the study of tracks and traces and, since 2008, the Cape South Coast Ichnology Project has documented more than ...
Electromagnetic fields and dinosaur choir win international instrument contest
The first place prize went to a collaborative project from Italy and Germany. Chromaplane uses two analog pickup coils to ...
What Black history has to do with the Cretaceous period
Known today as the “Black Belt,” the southeastern United States was once covered by an ancient sea—one that continues to ...
Scientists Found 52-Foot-Tall Underground Ripples From the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs
The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...
Earth's orbital rhythms link timing of giant eruptions and climate change
An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the ...
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Pemex targets light oil in two-well campaign offshore Mexico
Drilling of Koos-1EXP is expected to last nearly six months, as Pemex will eye 42 degrees API crude in Upper Cretaceous and ...
Curious Kids: what was the biggest dinosaur that ever lived?
By a very small margin, Spinosaurus is currently thought to have been the largest carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaur, ...
Cretaceous Carnivores
Palaeontologists in Victoria have identified a trio of ancient meat-eating dinosaurs that terrorised Southern Gondwana, including the world's oldest known megaraptorid - aka the 'mega raptor'. It's ...