Paleo in the News

New species of Portuguese man o' war discovered in the Tasman Sea

New Scientist - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 01:00
Genetic analysis shows that there are four varieties of Portuguese man o’ war, or bluebottle, including an Antipodean species that has yet to be named
Categories: Fossils

Are animals conscious? We’re finally realising that many species are

New Scientist - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 04:00
Science is at last confirming what many people have long suspected - that mammals, birds and perhaps some invertebrates have elements of consciousness
Categories: Fossils

Watch bees defend their nest by slapping ants with their wings

New Scientist - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 03:00
When ants try to invade their nest, Japanese honeybees flutter their wings and tilt their bodies to beat away their enemies
Categories: Fossils

Evidence for butchery of giant armadillo-like mammals in Argentina 21,000 years ago

Science Daily - Paleontology - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 15:24
Cut marks on fossils could be evidence of humans exploiting large mammals in Argentina more than 20,000 years ago, according to a new study.
Categories: Fossils

Evidence for butchery of giant armadillo-like mammals in Argentina 21,000 years ago

Science Daily - Fossils - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 15:24
Cut marks on fossils could be evidence of humans exploiting large mammals in Argentina more than 20,000 years ago, according to a new study.
Categories: Fossils

Research tracks 66 million years of mammalian diversity

Science Daily - Paleontology - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 11:11
New research has examined the fossil record going back 66 million years and tracked changes to mammalian ecosystems and species diversity on the North American continent.
Categories: Fossils

Research tracks 66 million years of mammalian diversity

Science Daily - Dinosaurs - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 11:11
New research has examined the fossil record going back 66 million years and tracked changes to mammalian ecosystems and species diversity on the North American continent.
Categories: Fossils

Sea slugs discovered working together to hunt in packs

New Scientist - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 09:30
Hunting in packs seems like a complex social behaviour, but it isn't limited to large carnivores like wolves. A simple sea slug species teams up to swarm its venomous anemone prey as a group
Categories: Fossils

Ancient microbes offer clues to how complex life evolved

Science Daily - Fossils - Tue, 07/16/2024 - 11:27
Researchers have discovered that a single-celled organism, a close relative of animals, harbors the remnants of ancient giant viruses woven into its own genetic code. This finding sheds light on how complex organisms may have acquired some of their genes and highlights the dynamic interplay between viruses and their hosts.
Categories: Fossils

Insight into one of life's earliest ancestors revealed in new study

Science Daily - Paleontology - Fri, 07/12/2024 - 11:41
Researchers have shed light on Earth's earliest ecosystem, showing that within a few hundred million years of planetary formation, life on Earth was already flourishing.
Categories: Fossils

Last common ancestor of all life emerged far earlier than thought

New Scientist - Fri, 07/12/2024 - 05:00
All life on Earth can trace its origin to LUCA, the last universal common ancestor – and now it seems this organism may have lived a few hundred million years after the planet formed
Categories: Fossils

Woolly mammoth DNA exceptionally preserved in freeze-dried 'jerky'

New Scientist - Thu, 07/11/2024 - 11:00
A complete genome has been extracted from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth, which might bring us closer to resurrecting the species
Categories: Fossils

First ever 3D reconstruction of 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth chromosomes thanks to serendipitously freeze-dried skin

Science Daily - Paleontology - Thu, 07/11/2024 - 10:13
An international research team has assembled the genome and 3D chromosomal structures of a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth -- the first time such a feat has been achieved for any ancient DNA sample. The fossilized chromosomes, which are around a million times longer than most ancient DNA fragments, provide insight into how the mammoth's genome was organized within its living cells and which genes were active within the skin tissue from which the DNA was extracted. This unprecedented level of structural detail was retained because the mammoth underwent freeze-drying shortly after it died, which meant that its DNA was preserved in a glass-like state.
Categories: Fossils

First ever 3D reconstruction of 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth chromosomes thanks to serendipitously freeze-dried skin

Science Daily - Fossils - Thu, 07/11/2024 - 10:13
An international research team has assembled the genome and 3D chromosomal structures of a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth -- the first time such a feat has been achieved for any ancient DNA sample. The fossilized chromosomes, which are around a million times longer than most ancient DNA fragments, provide insight into how the mammoth's genome was organized within its living cells and which genes were active within the skin tissue from which the DNA was extracted. This unprecedented level of structural detail was retained because the mammoth underwent freeze-drying shortly after it died, which meant that its DNA was preserved in a glass-like state.
Categories: Fossils

A new species of extinct crocodile relative rewrites life on the Triassic coastline

Science Daily - Paleontology - Wed, 07/10/2024 - 18:54
The surprising discovery of a new species of extinct crocodile relative from the Triassic Favret Formation of Nevada, USA, rewrites the story of life along the coasts during the first act of the Age of Dinosaurs. The new species Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis reveals that while giant ichthyosaurs ruled the oceans, the ancient crocodile kin known as pseudosuchian archosaurs ruled the shores across the Middle Triassic globe between 247.2 and 237 million years ago.
Categories: Fossils

A new species of extinct crocodile relative rewrites life on the Triassic coastline

Science Daily - Dinosaurs - Wed, 07/10/2024 - 18:54
The surprising discovery of a new species of extinct crocodile relative from the Triassic Favret Formation of Nevada, USA, rewrites the story of life along the coasts during the first act of the Age of Dinosaurs. The new species Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis reveals that while giant ichthyosaurs ruled the oceans, the ancient crocodile kin known as pseudosuchian archosaurs ruled the shores across the Middle Triassic globe between 247.2 and 237 million years ago.
Categories: Fossils

A new species of extinct crocodile relative rewrites life on the Triassic coastline

Science Daily - Fossils - Wed, 07/10/2024 - 18:54
The surprising discovery of a new species of extinct crocodile relative from the Triassic Favret Formation of Nevada, USA, rewrites the story of life along the coasts during the first act of the Age of Dinosaurs. The new species Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis reveals that while giant ichthyosaurs ruled the oceans, the ancient crocodile kin known as pseudosuchian archosaurs ruled the shores across the Middle Triassic globe between 247.2 and 237 million years ago.
Categories: Fossils

Lions' record-breaking swim across channel captured by drone camera

New Scientist - Wed, 07/10/2024 - 15:00
Two lions, one missing a leg, made a 1.5-kilometre swim through crocodile-infested waters in Uganda, probably in order to mate with females
Categories: Fossils

Why you shouldn't believe claims you can grow a rose in a potato

New Scientist - Wed, 07/10/2024 - 13:00
Social media assures us that we can grow a rose cutting in a raw potato. But you're better off sticking with tried and tested methods of rose propagation, says James Wong
Categories: Fossils

Research reveals the most complete dinosaur discovered in the UK in a century

Science Daily - Paleontology - Wed, 07/10/2024 - 12:09
The most complete dinosaur discovered in the UK in the last 100 years, with a pubic hip bone the size of a 'dinner plate', has been described in a new article.
Categories: Fossils

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