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11.9 Million-Year-Old Fossil of Pierolapithecus Analyzed by Researchers

Reconstruction of Pierolapithecus catalaunicus (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
May 3, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new study led by Dr Salvador Moya-Sola from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, is the first to examine the pelvis fragments of an early hominid called Pierolapithecus catalaunicus. Reconstruction of Pierolapithecus catalaunicus (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) Dr Moya-Sola with colleagues discovered the fossil specimen of Pierolapithecus in Spain in 2002. They estimated that the hominid lived about 11.9 million years...

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Specimen of Eocypselus rowei (Daniel T. Ksepka et al)

Eocene Fossil of Hummingbird-Swift Relative Found in Wyoming

May 2, 2013 by Sci-News.com

A tiny bird fossil, named Eocypselus rowei, offers clues to the precursors of hummingbird and swift wings. Specimen of Eocypselus rowei (Daniel T. Ksepka...

10 million years after the mass extinction, members of the archosaur reptiles – such as the 10-foot-long Asilisaurus pictured – had more restricted geographic ranges compared to the communities of four-legged animals that existed before the extinction (Marlene Donnelly / Field Museum of Natural History)

Seven Fossil-hunting Expeditions in Tanzania, Zambia Yield Surprising Results

Apr 30, 2013 by Sci-News.com

Newly discovered fossils from 10 million years after the end-Permian mass extinction reveal a lineage of animals thought to have led to dinosaurs in what...

Troodon formosus

Troodon Egg Study Reveals New Link between Birds and Dinosaurs

Apr 25, 2013 by Sci-News.com

Troodon formosus, a small North American theropod dinosaur, incubated its eggs in a similar way to brooding birds, according to paleontologists at the...

Outline of Dahalokely tokana with a human for scale, showing known bones in white and missing areas patterned after related animals (Andrew Farke / Joseph Sertich)

New Carnivorous Dinosaur from Madagascar Named ‘Lonely Little Bandit’

Apr 23, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified the first new species of dinosaur from the island of Madagascar in nearly a decade. Outline of Dahalokely tokana with a...

Euphanerops, a fossil jawless fish that lived some 370 million years ago (Robert S. Sansom et al / Biology Letters)

British Paleontologists Find Devonian Jawless Fish with Unusual Fin

Apr 11, 2013 by Sci-News.com

Leicester University scientists have identified the paired fins of Euphanerops, a fossil jawless fish that lived some 370 million years ago. Euphanerops,...

Semitransparent flesh reconstruction of embryonic dinosaur inside egg, with skeleton (D. Mazierski)

Oldest Dinosaur Embryos Discovered in China, Organic Remains Found inside Embryonic Bones

Apr 11, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of paleontologists has unearthed the earliest collection of fossilized dinosaur embryos to date, and discovered organic material...

Carnivorous two-legged dinosaur swimming in a river, making claw marks as it touches bottom with its tiptoes (Nathan E. Rogers)

Study: Some Dinosaurs were Good Swimmers

Apr 10, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

100M year old dinosaur tracks reported in the journal Chinese Science Bulletin suggest that some dinosaurs were strong swimmers. Carnivorous two-legged...

European Tadpole Shrimp, Triops cancriformis (Africa Gomez / CC-BY 3.0)

Tadpole Shrimp Study Challenges Term ‘Living Fossil’

Apr 4, 2013 by Sci-News.com

A new study published in the new peer-reviewed open access journal PeerJ sheds light on the origin of tadpole shrimps, a group commonly regarded as ‘living...

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