Ancient amphibians as big as alligators died in mass mortality event in Triassic Wyoming
Dozens of amphibians perished together on an ancient floodplain around 230 million years ago, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Aaron M. Kufner of the University of ...
Island life 200 million years ago: Ancient neptunian dike reveals rare mixed marine and terrestrial fossil assemblage
Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...
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This Rare Fossil Connects The Dots In A 180-million-year-old Evolutionary Mystery
A complete Plesiopterys wildi fossil unearthed in southern Germany is offering new insight into the early diversification of ...
When the Dino-Killing Asteroid Hit, Mammals Were Already on the Move
Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...
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Mammals moved to land before dinosaur-killing asteroid struck 66 million years ago
The researchers focused on bone articular fragments from therian mammals, a group that includes modern marsupials and ...