Category Archives: Fossils
It’s Not All Mindless Sex With Beautiful Women, Placoderm
A team led by Australian palaeontologist, Dr John Long, have discovered one of the oldest reproductive organs to date, potentially shedding light on the sexual evolution of vertebrate organisms. Belonging to a 400 million-year-old Devonian armoured placoderm from the Gogo … Continue reading
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Well This is Embarrassing…
Last month, researchers from the El Instituto de Geología Económica in Madrid uncovered the remarkably complete fossils of numerous giant clustered trilobites in a rock quarry in northern Portugal. The largest trilobites found to date, one stretching to almost 90 … Continue reading
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Give Up, Seahorse.
Two years after the preserved proteins of a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex were published by NCSU paleontologist, Mary Schweitzer, and her team, they’ve come back to describe the discovery of some 80-million-year-old femur bone proteins belonging to the duckbilled hadrosaur, Brachylophosaurus … Continue reading
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Crab-Darwin is Not Impressed With Puijila darwini
A recent discovery which would blow this mental defective’s mind (if he had one): researchers from the Carleton University, Canada, have uncovered a transitional fossil which reveals the evolutionary trail from land to sea of the pinniped mammal suborder, which … Continue reading
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Sea Scorpions: First Tool Users EVER! (Sort Of)
In news underwhelming for some but practically brain-orgasmic for others, (okay, probably just me) geologists in the US have come up with a possible explanation for the peculiar trace fossils found in some Cambrian intertidal sandstones of North America. These … Continue reading
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Take Heed: TUNA.
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last week has shown that in the world of prehistoric fishes, if you were large and had a habit of biting things in an overzealous manner, chances … Continue reading
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