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Devonian Four-Limbed Creature Reveals Insights into How Vertebrate Hand Evolved from Fish Fins A 1.57-m (5.2-foot) long specimen of Elpistostege watsoni from the Devonian period of Canada has yielded the missing evolutionary link in the fish to tetrapod transition. An artist’s reconstruction of Elpistostege watsoni fossil found in Miguasha, Canada. …

Paleontologists Find New Dinosaur Tracks on Scotland’s Isle of Skye The footprints of stegosaurs, carnivorous theropods and huge herbivorous ornithopod dinosaurs that date back to 170 million years ago (Middle Jurassic epoch) have been discovered on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Fossil tracks left by a stegosaur on the Isle …

Preserves Skull of Hummingbird-Sized Dinosaur Paleontologists have actually discovered an extremely unspoiled and also small head of a formerly unidentified bird-like dinosaur types in an item of Cretaceous-period brownish-yellow from north Myanmar. Photograph, calculated tomography scans as well as expository illustrations of the Oculudentavis khaungraaea sampling:(a)picture of the brownish-yellow item …

-Period Bird Species Unearthed in Utah A brand-new varieties of vanished quail-like bird has actually been determined from a fossil discovered in eastern Utah. Reconstruction of Uintan paraortygid. Picture credit rating: Thomas Stidham. Referred to as Uintan paraortygid, the old bird lived some 44 million years back throughoutthe Eocene duration. …

An enigmatic worm-like animal called Facivermis yunnanicus lost lower limbs for tube-dwelling lifestyle, according to new research published in the journal Current Biology. Facivermis yunnanicus. Image credit: Franz Anthony. Facivermis yunnanicus lived some 518 million years ago in the Cambrian period. It had a long body and five pairs of …

Paleontologists in Brazil have found thin bands of fossil gum — the first occurrence in the fossil record — inside 110-million-year-old (Cretaceous period) fossilized leaves of the extinct plant Welwitschiophyllum brasiliense. The discovery of fossilized plant gum is unusual because of its solubility in water. Orange-colored gum ducts (arrows) in …

A new genus and species of hairy cicada that lived around 100 million years ago (Cretaceous period) has been identified from a fossilized wing found in Canada. The fossilized forewing of Maculaferrum blaisi; total forewing length estimated at 20-23 mm, maximal forewing width at 7.5 mm. Image credit: Demers-Potvin et …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Volcanic activity did not play a direct role in the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, according to an international, Yale-led team of researchers. It was all about the asteroid.   In a break from a number of other recent studies, Yale assistant professor of …

Using a novel technique called clumped isotope paleothermometry, an international team of paleontologists analyzed eggshell fossils representing three major dinosaur groups and found that these creatures were characterized by warm body temperatures. A nesting cassowary-like dinosaur named Beibeilong sinensis in the act of incubating eggs. Image credit: Zhao Chuang. “Dinosaurs …

A new genus and species of medium-sized abelisaurid dinosaur being named Tralkasaurus cuyi has been discovered by Dr. Mauricio Cerroni from the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences and CONICET and his colleagues. An artist’s impression of Tralkasaurus cuyi. Image credit: Sebastian Rozadilla. Tralkasaurus cuyi lived approximately 90 million years ago …