Paleontology
Paleontology
Brazilian paleontologists identify new carnivorous dinosaur
A group of Brazilian researchers has identified a new species of carnivorous dinosaur, a dromeosaurid named Ypupiara lopai
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Paleontology
The near extinction of sharks
Ocean sediment fossil records suggest that today's sharks are descended from the few survivors of a mass extinction that wiped out nearly all the shark species that lived in the early Miocene Epoch
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The pterosaur of the trees
A 160-million-year-old fossil discovered in Liaoning, northeast China, belongs to a new species of pterosaur, which has been generating curiosity
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Paleontology
The oldest and largest blind snake
Paleontologists from the University of São Paulo (USP), Ribeirão Preto campus, have identified the world’s largest and oldest blind snake
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Video
Could these be the precursors of pterosaurs?
Study suggests that extinct small terrestrial vertebrates, the lagerpetids, were the closest relatives of those mysterious winged reptiles | 6'43
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Paleontolgy
The advanced brain of a primitive dinosaur
The brain of a well-preserved specimen of Buriolestes schultzi, one of the oldest known dinosaurs, has been reconstructed using computed tomography, suggesting an unusual evolutionary path for one of the most important lineages of this extinct group of reptiles: the sauropods
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Paleontology
The blood parasites of a dinosaur
Brazilian paleontologists have identified fossilized blood parasites in the back leg bone of a titanosaur that lived some 85 million years ago
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Paleontology
The dinosaur with cancer
An herbivorous dinosaur that lived about 76 million years ago in what is now the province of Alberta in western Canada had highly aggressive bone cancer in its right hind leg
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Archaeology
30,000 years ago in the Americas
Mexican site suggests settlement of the Americas began 30,000 years ago
Paleontology
Dinosaur or lizard?
In March, paleontologists announced an incredible discovery. The research team, led by Jingmai O’Connor of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, China, published an article in Nature on the smallest dinosaur species ever identified: Oculudentavis khaungraae, described based on a skull found trapped in a 99-million-year-old fragment of amber found in Myanmar,... View Article
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Paleontology
A giant tortoise
The largest freshwater turtle that ever existed, possibly the largest of all turtles, lived between 13.8 million and 5.3 million years ago in South America, inhabiting a larger area than previously thought
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Paleontology
The predator with voracious jaws
A fossil discovered in Rio Grande do Sul is the best-preserved representative of the herrerasauridae, one of the first strains of carnivorous dinosaur
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Paleontology
Tuatara fossil discovered in Rio Grande do Sul
The oldest specimen of a sphenodon in the southern hemisphere has been found in the municipality of Candelária, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul
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Photolab
A landscape in an egg
A group led by paleontologist Sérgio Alex Azevedo, from the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, was able to identify the fossil by analyzing its microstructure
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Evolution
A 42-million-year-old whale with legs
Its limbs were well adapted to swimming and were not suited to moving across land
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The day the dinosaurs died
A discovery is helping researchers understand the events that followed the huge meteorite impact that hit Earth 65 million years ago
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Dinosaurs probably originated in Southern Brazil
Paleontologists talk about characteristics and origins of dinos | 10'59"
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paleontology
225-million-year-old long-necked dinosaurs
The fossils of three specimens of a new genus and species of herbivorous dinosaur have been found in the state of Rio Grande do Sul
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Paleontology
The gregarious habits of an herbivorous reptile
Researchers from the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul found an assemblage of fossils from at least six different Dinodontosaurus individuals
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PALEONTOLOGY
Fossils on the move
3D reconstructions highlight new characteristics of crocodiles and dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago in Brazil
By Diego Freire