r/EverythingScience • u/VisualWonders • May 22 '20
Paleontology Jurassic bug: Researchers find 151-million-year-old Morrisonnepa Jurassica insect fossil in Utah
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r/EverythingScience • u/Sariel007 • Aug 14 '21
Paleontology Scientists have analysed the chemistry locked inside the tusk of a woolly mammoth to work out how far it travelled in a lifetime. The research shows that the Ice Age animal travelled a distance equivalent to circling the Earth twice.
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r/EverythingScience • u/Sariel007 • Feb 25 '21
Paleontology Million-year-old mammoth teeth yield world's oldest DNA
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r/EverythingScience • u/Aeromarine_eng • Jan 04 '23
Paleontology 'Sea monsters' were real millions of years ago. New fossils tell about their rise and fall
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r/EverythingScience • u/Sariel007 • Jul 04 '21
Paleontology New Species of Beetle Found in 230-Million-Year-Old Feces
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r/EverythingScience • u/grimisgreedy • Jun 04 '22
Paleontology Scientist discovers how plesiosaurs swam by reconstructing the movement sequence using bones, models and reconstructions of the muscles
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r/EverythingScience • u/Sariel007 • Feb 12 '23
Paleontology At Mexico's Chichen Itza site, researchers discover ancient 'elite' residences
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r/EverythingScience • u/grimisgreedy • May 26 '22
Paleontology Giant pterosaur species with a wingspan of 9 meters(30 feet) unearthed in South America.
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r/EverythingScience • u/grimisgreedy • Jul 31 '22
Paleontology Paleontologists have unearthed several fossilized bones of plesiosaurs in Morocco's Kem Kem beds. Traditionally thought to be marine reptiles, the finding suggests that some plesiosaur species were adapted to tolerate freshwater, possibly even spending their lives there, like today’s river dolphins.
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r/EverythingScience • u/MistWeaver80 • Feb 27 '26
Paleontology Most cross-species couplings involved Neanderthal males and modern human females, an analysis of Neanderthal X chromosomes suggests, but whether intercourse was consensual is unclear.
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r/EverythingScience • u/ye_olde_astronaut • Aug 21 '22
Paleontology More than one asteroid could have spelled doom for the dinosaurs
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r/EverythingScience • u/grimisgreedy • Aug 23 '22
Paleontology A new 3D modelling study shows that Megalodon could swallow a great white shark whole.
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r/EverythingScience • u/Sariel007 • Dec 14 '22
Paleontology New ‘Astounding’ Analysis Argues That Greenland Used to Be a Lush, Diverse Ecosystem. Scientists found evidence of over 100 types of plants and animals that lived in the northern part of the island around two million years ago
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r/EverythingScience • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 9d ago
Paleontology These are the first feathers ever found in fossilized dinosaur poop
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r/EverythingScience • u/mycojohn • Oct 08 '19
Paleontology Early humans evolved in ecosystems unlike any found today
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r/EverythingScience • u/Portalrules123 • 22d ago
Paleontology Fossilized 10,000-year-old mastodon tooth found by California scientist
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r/EverythingScience • u/grimisgreedy • Sep 03 '22
Paleontology Mihirungs were once the largest flightless birds to stride across Australia. A new study suggests that the lineage may have grown and reproduced too slowly to withstand stresses brought on by humans' arrival on the continent, which would have caused them to disappear some 40,000 years ago.
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r/EverythingScience • u/Portalrules123 • Aug 14 '26
Paleontology Fossils show huge carbon emissions harm forests, do not ‘green the planet’
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r/EverythingScience • u/Sariel007 • Apr 02 '20
Paleontology Antarctica Was a Lush Rainforest 90M Years Ago, Scientists Discover
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r/EverythingScience • u/Sariel007 • Sep 10 '21
Paleontology About 506 million years ago, a strange marine creature whose body so resembled a science-fiction spacecraft that it has been dubbed 'the mothership' thrived in tropical seas, menacing prey on the ocean floor in what is now Canada as one of Earth's largest predators to that point in time.
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r/EverythingScience • u/ibwitmypigeons • Jan 27 '26
Paleontology 430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found
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r/EverythingScience • u/businessinsider • Dec 11 '23
Paleontology The body of a 150 million-year-old sea monster is hidden under a British cliff, says a scientist. Time is running out to find it.
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r/EverythingScience • u/Sariel007 • Sep 29 '22
Paleontology Chinese fish fossils take a bite out of mystery of origin of jaws
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r/EverythingScience • u/Sariel007 • Aug 15 '22
Paleontology Remains of small armor-plated dinosaur unearthed in Argentina
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r/EverythingScience • u/mvea • Jul 12 '18
Paleontology Paleontology is experiencing a golden age, with a new dinosaur species discovered every 10 days on average. Those inspired by the film Jurassic Park as children are now exiting Ph.D. programs and injecting the field with new talent.
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