Paleo in the News

Exquisite bird fossil provides clues to the evolution of avian brains

New Scientist - Wed, 11/13/2024 - 10:00
Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, thanks to a remarkably well-preserved fossil  
Categories: Fossils

Migratory birds can use Earth's magnetic field like a GPS

New Scientist - Tue, 11/12/2024 - 18:00
Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their coordinates on a mental map
Categories: Fossils

Red kites and buzzards are being killed by misuse of rat poisons

New Scientist - Tue, 11/12/2024 - 00:00
Campaigners are calling for stricter controls on rodenticides after finding that birds of prey in England are increasingly being exposed to high doses of rat poison
Categories: Fossils

Was 'Snowball Earth' a global event? Study delivers best proof yet

Science Daily - Paleontology - Mon, 11/11/2024 - 14:52
A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.
Categories: Fossils

How a single gopher restored a landscape devastated by a volcano

New Scientist - Mon, 11/11/2024 - 12:00
Never underestimate what a single gopher can achieve in a day: one of the burrowing mammals helped boost soil fungi in an area blanketed by ash from the explosive eruption of Mount St Helens in Washington state
Categories: Fossils

Lights on surfboards and wetsuits could deter shark attacks

New Scientist - Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:00
Experiments show that illuminating the underside of a decoy seal reduces attacks by great white sharks, revealing a possible strategy to protect surfers and swimmers
Categories: Fossils

Geologists rewrite textbooks with new insights from the bottom of the Grand Canyon

Science Daily - Paleontology - Fri, 11/08/2024 - 14:07
Geoscientists employed current-day stratigraphic, depositional and paleontological models, along with modern technological muscle to provide updated insights of the Cambrian period of the Grand Canyon.
Categories: Fossils

New insights into the Denisovans: New hominin group that interbred with modern day humans

Science Daily - Paleontology - Fri, 11/08/2024 - 10:33
Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered 'hominin' group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple, distinct interbreeding events that helped shape early human history. Scientists outline evidence suggesting that several Denisovan populations, who likely had an extensive geographical range from Siberia to Southeast Asia and from Oceania to South America, were adapted to distinct environments. They further outline a number of genes of Denisovan origin that gave modern day humans advantages in their different environments.
Categories: Fossils

New insights into the Denisovans: New hominin group that interbred with modern day humans

Science Daily - Fossils - Fri, 11/08/2024 - 10:33
Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered 'hominin' group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple, distinct interbreeding events that helped shape early human history. Scientists outline evidence suggesting that several Denisovan populations, who likely had an extensive geographical range from Siberia to Southeast Asia and from Oceania to South America, were adapted to distinct environments. They further outline a number of genes of Denisovan origin that gave modern day humans advantages in their different environments.
Categories: Fossils

Chimps do better at difficult tasks when they have an audience

New Scientist - Fri, 11/08/2024 - 10:00
An analysis of thousands of cognitive tests carried out by chimpanzees finds that the number of spectators influenced their performance in different ways depending on the difficulty of the task
Categories: Fossils

Watch elephants use a hose to shower themselves – and prank others

New Scientist - Fri, 11/08/2024 - 10:00
Asian elephants at Berlin Zoo show impressive skill when using a hose as a tool, and even appear to sabotage each other by stopping the flow of water
Categories: Fossils

Marmots could have the solution to a long-running debate in evolution

New Scientist - Thu, 11/07/2024 - 12:00
When it comes to the survival of animals living in the wild, the characteristics of the group can matter as much as the traits of the individual, according to a study in marmots
Categories: Fossils

New Scientist recommends the Pier 26 Science Playground

New Scientist - Wed, 11/06/2024 - 12:00
The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week
Categories: Fossils

See nature in close-up in these stunning photographs

New Scientist - Wed, 11/06/2024 - 12:00
Shortlisted for the Close-up Photographer of the Year contest, these images zoom in on animals in all their glory
Categories: Fossils

Vampire bats run on a treadmill to reveal their strange metabolism

New Scientist - Tue, 11/05/2024 - 18:01
Experiments where vampire bats were made to run on a treadmill have revealed how they extract energy from protein in their latest blood meal
Categories: Fossils

Did the world's best-preserved dinosaurs really die in 'Pompeii-type' events?

Science Daily - Paleontology - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 14:05
Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested. Not so fast, says a new study.
Categories: Fossils

Did the world's best-preserved dinosaurs really die in 'Pompeii-type' events?

Science Daily - Dinosaurs - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 14:05
Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested. Not so fast, says a new study.
Categories: Fossils

Did the world's best-preserved dinosaurs really die in 'Pompeii-type' events?

Science Daily - Fossils - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 14:05
Extraordinarily well preserved fossils of feathered dinosaurs and other creatures got that way after being frozen in time by by volcanic eruptions, researchers have long suggested. Not so fast, says a new study.
Categories: Fossils

Fossil of huge terror bird offers new information about wildlife in South America 12 million years ago

Science Daily - Paleontology - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 10:23
Evolutionary biologists report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird -- which they say could be the largest known member of its kind -- providing new information about animal life in northern South America millions of years ago.
Categories: Fossils

Fossil of huge terror bird offers new information about wildlife in South America 12 million years ago

Science Daily - Fossils - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 10:23
Evolutionary biologists report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird -- which they say could be the largest known member of its kind -- providing new information about animal life in northern South America millions of years ago.
Categories: Fossils

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