Paleo in the News

Italian festival of the snake-catchers revealed in colourful photos

New Scientist - Wed, 05/28/2025 - 13:00
The village of Cocullo celebrates a festa dei serpari every May – and scientists are getting in on the action
Categories: Fossils

New velvet worm species a first for the arid Karoo

Science Daily - Dinosaurs - Wed, 05/28/2025 - 12:22
A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, represents the first ever species from the arid Karoo, which indicates that the area was likely historically more forested than at present. In the Cape Fold Mountains, we now know that every mountain peak has an endemic species. This suggests that in unsampled areas there are likely to be additional novel diversity, waiting to be found.
Categories: Fossils

New velvet worm species a first for the arid Karoo

Science Daily - Paleontology - Wed, 05/28/2025 - 12:22
A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, represents the first ever species from the arid Karoo, which indicates that the area was likely historically more forested than at present. In the Cape Fold Mountains, we now know that every mountain peak has an endemic species. This suggests that in unsampled areas there are likely to be additional novel diversity, waiting to be found.
Categories: Fossils

New velvet worm species a first for the arid Karoo

Science Daily - Fossils - Wed, 05/28/2025 - 12:22
A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, represents the first ever species from the arid Karoo, which indicates that the area was likely historically more forested than at present. In the Cape Fold Mountains, we now know that every mountain peak has an endemic species. This suggests that in unsampled areas there are likely to be additional novel diversity, waiting to be found.
Categories: Fossils

Europe's most complete stegosaurian skull unearthed in Teruel, Spain

Science Daily - Paleontology - Wed, 05/28/2025 - 12:21
Palaeontologists have analyzed the most complete stegosaurian skull ever found in Europe and rewritten the evolutionary history of this iconic group of dinosaurs.
Categories: Fossils

Europe's most complete stegosaurian skull unearthed in Teruel, Spain

Science Daily - Dinosaurs - Wed, 05/28/2025 - 12:21
Palaeontologists have analyzed the most complete stegosaurian skull ever found in Europe and rewritten the evolutionary history of this iconic group of dinosaurs.
Categories: Fossils

Europe's most complete stegosaurian skull unearthed in Teruel, Spain

Science Daily - Fossils - Wed, 05/28/2025 - 12:21
Palaeontologists have analyzed the most complete stegosaurian skull ever found in Europe and rewritten the evolutionary history of this iconic group of dinosaurs.
Categories: Fossils

Fossils show puzzling lack of evolution during last ice age peak

New Scientist - Wed, 05/28/2025 - 09:00
Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to shifting temperatures over the past 50,000 years
Categories: Fossils

We’re getting close to recreating the first step in evolution of life

New Scientist - Wed, 05/28/2025 - 05:00
Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab
Categories: Fossils

Oldest whale bone tools discovered

Science Daily - Fossils - Tue, 05/27/2025 - 11:41
Humans were making tools from whale bones as far back as 20,000 years ago, according to a new study. This discovery broadens our understanding of early human use of whale remains and offers valuable insight into the marine ecology of the time.
Categories: Fossils

Megalodon: The broad diet of the megatooth shark

Science Daily - Dinosaurs - Mon, 05/26/2025 - 14:03
Contrary to widespread assumptions, the largest shark that ever lived -- Otodus megalodon -- fed on marine creatures at various levels of the food pyramid and not just the top. Scientists analyzed the zinc content of a large sample of fossilized megalodon teeth, which had been unearthed above all in Sigmaringen and Passau, and compared them with fossil teeth found elsewhere and the teeth of animals that inhabit our planet today.
Categories: Fossils

Megalodon: The broad diet of the megatooth shark

Science Daily - Fossils - Mon, 05/26/2025 - 14:03
Contrary to widespread assumptions, the largest shark that ever lived -- Otodus megalodon -- fed on marine creatures at various levels of the food pyramid and not just the top. Scientists analyzed the zinc content of a large sample of fossilized megalodon teeth, which had been unearthed above all in Sigmaringen and Passau, and compared them with fossil teeth found elsewhere and the teeth of animals that inhabit our planet today.
Categories: Fossils

Megalodon: The broad diet of the megatooth shark

Science Daily - Paleontology - Mon, 05/26/2025 - 14:03
Contrary to widespread assumptions, the largest shark that ever lived -- Otodus megalodon -- fed on marine creatures at various levels of the food pyramid and not just the top. Scientists analyzed the zinc content of a large sample of fossilized megalodon teeth, which had been unearthed above all in Sigmaringen and Passau, and compared them with fossil teeth found elsewhere and the teeth of animals that inhabit our planet today.
Categories: Fossils

Mystery of 'very odd' elasmosaur finally solved: fiercely predatory marine reptile is new species

Science Daily - Dinosaurs - Fri, 05/23/2025 - 11:06
A group of fossils of elasmosaurs -- some of the most famous in North America -- have just been formally identified as belonging to a 'very odd' new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously known. This primitive 85-million-year-old, 12 meter-long, fiercely predatory marine reptile is unlike any elasmosaur known to-date and hunted its prey from above.
Categories: Fossils

Mystery of 'very odd' elasmosaur finally solved: fiercely predatory marine reptile is new species

Science Daily - Paleontology - Fri, 05/23/2025 - 11:06
A group of fossils of elasmosaurs -- some of the most famous in North America -- have just been formally identified as belonging to a 'very odd' new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously known. This primitive 85-million-year-old, 12 meter-long, fiercely predatory marine reptile is unlike any elasmosaur known to-date and hunted its prey from above.
Categories: Fossils

Mystery of 'very odd' elasmosaur finally solved: fiercely predatory marine reptile is new species

Science Daily - Fossils - Fri, 05/23/2025 - 11:06
A group of fossils of elasmosaurs -- some of the most famous in North America -- have just been formally identified as belonging to a 'very odd' new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously known. This primitive 85-million-year-old, 12 meter-long, fiercely predatory marine reptile is unlike any elasmosaur known to-date and hunted its prey from above.
Categories: Fossils

Different phases of evolution during ice age

Science Daily - Paleontology - Fri, 05/23/2025 - 11:04
Cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets expanded and contracted and around 700,000 years ago the cold periods doubled in length. This is when many of the current cold-adapted species, as well as extinct ones like mammoths, evolved.
Categories: Fossils

Different phases of evolution during ice age

Science Daily - Fossils - Fri, 05/23/2025 - 11:04
Cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets expanded and contracted and around 700,000 years ago the cold periods doubled in length. This is when many of the current cold-adapted species, as well as extinct ones like mammoths, evolved.
Categories: Fossils

Why birds decorate their nests with weird and unnatural objects

New Scientist - Fri, 05/23/2025 - 08:00
Puzzlingly, many birds add human-made material to their nests with no obvious function – now there is evidence that these home improvements might ward off predators
Categories: Fossils

Flash floods sweep through vital sanctuary for Australian animals

New Scientist - Fri, 05/23/2025 - 05:46
Wildlife carers fostering some of Australia’s most precious animals have had to rescue them one by one from rising waters and are now racing to repair fencing that keeps feral predators away
Categories: Fossils

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