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Old July 17th, 2022 #181
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See a Rare Flower and Wasp Entombed in 30 Million-Year-Old Amber


July 16, 2022

Captured successful a infinitesimal and preserved for millions of years. This is the bittersweet communicative of a angiosperm and a wasp. It didn't extremity good for them erstwhile they were encased unneurotic successful sticky histrion sap, but they near unfastened a fascinating model into the past.

https://www.cnet.com/science/biology...ear-old-amber/

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Old August 28th, 2022 #182
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A man found dinosaur bones in his yard. It could lead to largest skeleton ever found in Europe


Aug 27, 2022

Paleontologists in Portugal may have unearthed the largest dinosaur remains ever discovered in Europe.

Where did they find them? In a man’s backyard.

The University of Lisbon, in Portugal, said in a press release Wednesday that its researchers, along with researchers from Spain, spent over a week earlier this month excavating the massive skeletal remains of a dinosaur believed to be a brachiosaurus sauropod.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/w...al/7907212001/
 
Old November 13th, 2022 #183
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Ancient American Lion Tooth Discovered on Dried Up Mississippi River Bank


11/11/22

The fossilized tooth of an ancient American Lion has been discovered on the drying banks of the Mississippi river. The animal hasn't been seen on American soil since the last Ice Age and finds of this nature are extremely rare.

Wiley Prewitt, of Oxford, Mississippi, made the discovery while exploring a recently exposed sandbar near Rosedale, approximately 140 miles northwest of Jackson.

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Old November 21st, 2022 #184
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Titanic 12-foot turtle cruised the ocean 80 million years ago, newfound fossils show


Nov 18, 2022

Researchers in Spain have unearthed a never-before-seen species of ancient marine turtle, the largest of its kind ever uncovered in Europe.

Paleontologists have unearthed an extinct, never-before-seen species of giant sea turtle in Spain. The titanic turtle likely had a body length of around 12.3 feet (3.7 meters) — more than double the size of modern marine turtles — and is the largest turtle species ever uncovered in Europe.

https://www.livescience.com/12-foot-ancient-turtle
 
Old January 23rd, 2023 #185
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Dinosaur fossils unearthed in Chile may give insight into deadly asteroid strike

January 23, 2023

Dinosaurs once roamed every continent on the planet, though one area, in particular, is getting attention for its newly-discovered diversity of species.

Fossils of everything from frogs to turtles to the recently-discovered ankylosaur have been found in Patagonia, the vast, southernmost tip of South America shared by Argentina and Chile. And now, the discovery of certain fossils in the Chilean region provides valuable information about dinosaur life before — and after — the fatal asteroid strike.

Since 2017, researchers from all around the world have been collecting plant and animal fossils to build a record of ancient life in the region under the helm of The University of Texas at Austin.

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/di...steroid-strike
 
Old January 23rd, 2023 #186
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New pterosaur species with hundreds of tiny hooked teeth discovered


Jan 23, 2023

An unusual new species of pterosaur has been identified, which had over 400 teeth that looked like the prongs of a nit comb.

The fossil was found in a German quarry and has been described by paleontologists from England, Germany and Mexico.

Professor David Martill, lead author of the research, from the University of Portsmouth's School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences, said, "The nearly complete skeleton was found in a very finely layered limestone that preserves fossils beautifully.

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-pteros...iny-teeth.html
 
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Huge-Jawed ‘Terminator Pigs’ Unfairly Painted as Predators, Researchers Say


January 23, 2023

About 20 to 40 million years ago, entelodonts — immense, snaggletoothed, pig-like beasts — trotted throughout Eurasia and North America. But despite their 0.91 m jaws studded with an alarming number of triangular teeth, these barnyard nightmares apparently had a typically porcine diet.

New findings, published recently in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, shed a light on feeding habits of these strange, extinct mammals and some of their closest relatives, revealing clues about the changing world they inhabited.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2023/01/h...searchers-say/
 
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