AvatarMartin MiddlewoodAncient asteroid contains ingredients for life–and 4 more captivating storiesBy National GeographicThese are the fascinating stories we think you should read.
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodDinosaurs ‘Godzilla Shark’ with 12 rows of teeth now has an official name — inspired by dragons theolympian.com - Maddie Capron A graduate student pierced a pocket knife through shaley limestones in New Mexico, not expecting to find much. That student — John-Paul Hodnett — was …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodNew Mexico ‘Godzilla’ shark discovered in New Mexico gets formal name seattletimes.com - CEDAR ATTANASIO SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The 300-million-year-old shark’s teeth were the first sign that it might be a distinct species. The ancient chompers looked …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodPaleontology 'Godzilla shark' fossil found in NM abqjournal.com - Rick Nathanson | Journal Staff Writer A 300 million-year-old shark fossil discovered in New Mexico is the most complete fossil from the ctenacanth family ever found in North America and …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodReptiles This Flying 'Monkeydactyl' Is The Only Known Pterosaur With Opposed Thumbs verified_publisherScienceAlert - BRANDON SPECKTOR A small, flying reptile glides beneath the canopy of an ancient forest, scouring the trees for tasty bugs. She spots a cicada buzzing in the boughs …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodPaleontology Adorable 'Porg' Pterosaur Flapped Above Jurassic China verified_publisherGizmodo - Jake Buehler As the sun sets over what will become northern China in 160 million years, something small dives between the trunks of tree ferns, intercepting a …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodDinosaurs International paleontology team discovers tiny cat-sized stegosaur phys.org - Dominic Jarvis A single footprint left by a cat-sized dinosaur around 100 million years ago has been discovered in China by an international team of paleontologists. …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodDinosaurs Dinosaurs: how our understanding of what they looked like keeps changing The Conversation UK - Daniel Merino and Gemma Ware This is a transcript of episode 11 of The Conversation Weekly podcast Dinosaurs: from giant reptiles to warm-blooded, feathered creatures, how our …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodPhysical Geography 2.5 billion T. rex inhabited the planet, researchers say verified_publisherAxios - Jacob Knutson For the first time, scientists have estimated how many Tyrannosaurus rex, the so-called king of dinosaurs, once roamed the Earth. Why it matters: The …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodExtinction Megafauna extinction mystery unlocked phys.org - Flinders University The rapid extinction of giant animals including wombat-like creatures as big as cars, birds more than two meters tall, and lizards more than seven …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodChromosomes Steller’s sea cow genome suggests this species began going extinct before the arrival of Paleolithic humans nature.com - Fedor S. Sharko Anthropogenic activity is the top factor directly related to the extinction of several animal species. The last Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodScience Ancient "Monkeydactyl" dinosaur bears the oldest known opposed thumbs verified_publishernewatlas.com - By Nick Lavars It's a common view that opposable thumbs are a key feature that distinguishes us from most other species, but a flying reptile that clambered through …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodBiology Animals with weird neurons may rewrite the story of brain evolution newscientist.com - Michael Marshall Marine animals called comb jellies have nervous systems unlike those of any other known animal. Their neurons are oddly shaped and use chemicals not …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodMammals Researchers discover 74-million-year-old mammal - Watch jpost.com - By REUTERS The skunk-like mammal inhabited southern Patagonia alongside dinosaurs. Researchers in Chile have discovered a skunk-like mammal from the dinosaurs …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodDinosaurs Chilean scientists unearth skunk that walked among dinosaurs New York Post - By Reuters SANTIAGO – A fossil of a skunk-like mammal that lived during the age of dinosaurs has been discovered in Chilean Patagonia, adding further proof to …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodPhysical Geography These Rocks Made a 1,000-Mile Trek. Did Dinosaurs Carry Them? verified_publisherThe New York Times - Lucas JoelCorrection: April 9, 2021 This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the surname of a student. He is Joshua Malone, not Miller. It misspelled...
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodEarth Science These Mole-Like Critters Lived Under the Feet of Dinosaurs verified_publisherGizmodo - Isaac Schultz Before an asteroid completely changed the course of Earth’s evolutionary trajectory, the world was filled with scaled and feathered dinosaurs, …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodEarth Science Dino-Killing Asteroid May Have Formed Earth's Rainforests - Nerdist Nerdist - Matthew Hart The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period annihilated much of life on Earth. And while we know how that story …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodFossils 300-million-year-old dragonfly wing among several significant pandemic fossil finds | CBC News verified_publisherCBC News - Jennifer Sweet Researchers from the New Brunswick Museum say some exciting fossil discoveries have been made in the last year, including another big find by citizen …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodForests The asteroid that killed dinosaurs caused the birth of something great Inverse - Shaena Montanari When an asteroid slammed the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, it was bad news for dinosaurs — and about 75 percent of plant and animal life on …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodDinosaurs New Predatory Dinosaur Discovered, Named ‘One Who Causes Fear’ ecowatch.com - Olivia Rosane Move over, Tyrannosaurus rex! There's a new top dinosaur in town. Scientists have discovered a new species from the abelisauridae family of predatory …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodLife Sciences Skin deep: Aquatic skin adaptations of whales and hippos evolved independently phys.org - American Museum of Natural History A new study shows that the similarly smooth, nearly hairless skin of whales and hippopotamuses evolved independently. The work suggests that their …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodScience Bones evolved to act like batteries, 400-million-year-old fish suggest verified_publisherNational Geographic - Riley BlackBy studying the fossilized remains of ancient fish, scientists have uncovered a turning point in the development of one of the most important parts of humans and other animals: bone. While bones primarily...
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodFossils What did dinosaurs look like? An unlikely team is debunking old beliefs Inverse - Emma Betuel Robert Nicholls, a paleoartist from Bristol, England, was in the process of creating the world’s most realistic model dinosaur when he realized it …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodDinosaurs 'One who causes fear': Newly discovered dinosaur was a true meat-eating terror verified_publisherCNET - Amanda Kooser The Llukalkan aliocranianus has a fittingly frightening name.
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodTriassic Did you know? Triassic dinosaurs weren’t very big newscientist.com - Alexander McNamara and Matt Hambly The Triassic period started 252 million years ago after the Permian-Triassic extinction event, and in the 50 million years before the next extinction …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodAustralasia The Oldest Evidence of Life on Earth Is Being Stolen realclearscience.com - Nala Rogers Billions of years ago in a shallow sea in what is now western Australia, microbes grew in layered cones that climbed toward a hazy orange sky. The …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodPhysical Geography Ancient Rocks Reveal When Earth's Plate Tectonics Began WIRED - Howard Lee New data indicating that the planet's surface broke up about 3.2 billion years ago helps clarify how shifting plates drove the evolution of complex …
AvatarMartin MiddlewoodCell Biology The Trouble With Dinosaur Bones verified_publisherScienceAlert - Jacinta Bowler Bloodsucking insects, trapped in amber for millions of years, extracted for their blood-filled bellies, with the blood analyzed for ancient DNA. At …
