Paleontology | TechnologyTangle

Nov 15 • 6 months ago

Wyoming dinosaur mummies give us a new view of duck-billed species

Exquisitely preserved fossils come from a single site in Wyoming. ...

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Nov 14 • 6 months ago

World’s oldest RNA extracted from Ice Age woolly mammoth

Sequencing an ancient creature’s RNA opens up a new window into extinct life. ...

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Oct 31 • 6 months ago

New study settles 40-year debate: Nanotyrannus is a new species

"This fossil doesn't just settle the debate. It flips decades of T. rex research on its head." ...

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Oct 24 • 7 months ago

Dinosaurs may have flourished right up to when the asteroid hit

Fossil beds in New Mexico show diverse species present in the late Cretaceous. ...

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Sep 28 • 7 months ago

150 million-year-old pterosaur cold case has finally been solved

The storm literally snapped the bones in their wings. ...

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Aug 28 • 8 months ago

New dinosaur species is the punk rock version of an ankylosaur

A species known only by a single rib turns out to be covered with meter-long spikes. ...

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Aug 09 • 9 months ago

For giant carnivorous dinosaurs, big size didn’t mean a big bite

The biomechanics of dinosaur skulls say T. rex was the king of bite force. ...

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