Palaeontology 🦖

Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once inhabited the waters of the southern Pacific Ocean, where it liked to devour sardines.

Crosspost... Well I can't crosspost apparently, my apologies

Exquisite, fossilized skull sheds light on the evolutionary origins of waterfowl.

“Centrosaurus was only definitely known from sites of similar age in Alberta," said Demers-Potvin. "Now we report fossils that unequivocally belong to this species from Saskatchewan for the first time. It was always very likely to be found nearby, but the presence of Citipes elegans, a small, parrot-beaked dinosaur, was more unexpected."

Title photo- life reconstruction of Aysheaia pedunculata

Some mammoth bones have been gnawing at North Dakota State Geologist Ed Murphy for more than 35 years.

one researcher estimates as many as a third of dinosaur species might actually be juveniles of other species

Many people assume that horses first came to the Americas when Spanish explorers brought them here about 500 years ago. In fact, recent research has confirmed a European origin for horses associated with humans in the American Southwest and Great Plains.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/16527542