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Discovering dinosaurs in Britain –the importance of the British dinosaur report
Palaeontology and Britain In its easiest kind, palaeontology is the research of prehistoric life, by examination of fossils. Palaeontology is, nevertheless, not simply dinosaurs. Dinosaurs represent a miniscule portion of what palaeontology is. In spite of everything, a myriad of … Continue reading
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Researcher Unearths Hottest Rock on Record
A fist-sized, glassy rock sitting on the ground by the crater wall caught Zanetti’s eye. Image: Michael Zanetti. Rock found at Mistastin Lake crater in Labrador heated to 2,370 C during impact. It was a stroke of serendipity that led … Continue reading
A new museum in Northern Greece: the Siatista Historical Paleontological Collection, the first record of a stegodon in Europe and the making of the straight-tusked elephant.
The Historical Palaeontological Collection of Siatista (HPCS), housed in a school building in Siatista, Kozani, Macedonia in Greece, was studied by the authors during the summer of 2009. The collection was assembled by local people from 1902 onwards, under the … Continue reading
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The abundant yet understudied fossil record of ghost shrimps
“Ghost shrimp” usually refers to decapod crustacean species from the family Callianassidae and Ctenochelidae, although sometimes the term is also used for other crustacean groups, such as caprelloid amphipods or, mostly in aquarium trading, for palaemonid shrimps. Here, we use … Continue reading
Radioactive Elements in New Mexican Rock Reveal Longest Earthquake Record
White calcite deposits in rocks from a fault line in New Mexico helped scientists create a record-long earthquake record. Photo by Laurel Goodwin and Randy Williams Using radioactive elements trapped in crystallized, cream-colored “veins” in New Mexican rock, geologists have … Continue reading
Geologists use radioactive clock to document longest earthquake record
Using radioactive elements trapped in crystallized, cream-colored ‘veins’ in New Mexican rock, geologists have peered back in time more than 400,000 years to illuminate a record of earthquakes along the Loma Blanca fault in the Rio Grande rift. It is … Continue reading
Oldest orchid fossil on record identified
A newly published study documents evidence of an orchid fossil trapped in Baltic amber that dates back some 45 million years to 55 million years ago, shattering the previous record for an orchid fossil found in Dominican amber some 20-30 … Continue reading
Record of modern-style plate tectonics in the Palaeoproterozoic Trans-Hudson orogen
Nature Geoscience 10, 305 (2017). doi:10.1038/ngeo2904 Authors: O. M. Weller & M. R. St-Onge Nature Geoscience – Issue – nature.com science feeds
Critical gap in fossil record of Chinese phytosaurs filled
The skeleton of a small, short-snouted reptile found in China was recently identified as the oldest known member of the phytosaurs — an extinct group of large, semi-aquatic reptiles that superficially resembled the distantly-related crocodylians and lived during the Triassic … Continue reading
Timetree courting within the absence of a fossil report in Asian Horned Frogs
New analysis has resolved a 195-yr previous confusion relating to relationships between the species of Asian Horned Frogs, an enigmatic group of frogs typically with horn-like projections over their eyes. Using DNA sequences, they found many probably new species on … Continue reading