Antarctic Dinosaurs Coming to the Field Museum in June
Antarctica hasn’t always been icy and barren—around two hundred million years ago, it was a lush, temperate region, home to crocodile-sized amphibians and rhinoceros-sized dinosaurs. On June 15, the...
View ArticlePterosaurs land at Fernbank Museum in new special exhibit
ATLANTA, Feb. 1, 2019 – Fernbank Museum of Natural History allows guests to venture closer than ever before to the flying reptiles who once dominated the skies in new special exhibit Pterosaurs: Flight...
View ArticleBristol undergraduate reconstructs the skulls of two species of ancient reptile
Skulls of the two species of Clevosaurus, showing the difference in size, and the differences kin the teeth kin the jaws – blade-like in Clevosaurus Hudson and corkscrew-like in Clevosaurus cambrica....
View ArticleScientists Reveal Largest Tyrannosaurus rex Skeleton
The skeleton was actually discovered in 1991 in Saskatchewan, Canada, but the extremely hard matrix surrounding the bones, in combination with the size of the specimen, made it especially difficult and...
View ArticleFlowering Plants, New Teeth, and No DinosaursOh my!
Seattle, WA―A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences identified three factors critical in the rise of mammal communities since they first emerged during the...
View ArticleA 24-tonne dinosaur may have walked in a high-heeled fashion, according to...
UQ PhD candidate Andréas Jannel and colleagues from UQ’s Dinosaur Lab analysed fossils of Australia’s only named Jurassic sauropod, Rhoetosaurus brownei, to better understand how such an enormous...
View ArticleMyles Mantle, Andreas Silcher, Chrysa Kitsou in LNG Industry: Latin America...
This article explores how the natural gas and LNG market in Latin America and the Caribbean has evolved, the status at present, and some thoughts about what the future might hold.read more
View ArticleGROUND-BREAKING FOSSIL FROM MADAGASCAR HAS PITTSBURGH CONNECTION
David Krause, senior curator of vertebrate paleontology at Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and including Dr. John Wible, curator of mammals at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, announced the...
View ArticleInsect crunching reptiles on ancient islands of the UK
Two species of the lizard-like reptile Clevosaurus hunting their preferred prey; Clevosaurus hudsoni feeding on a crunchy beetle (top) and Clevosaurus cambrica (bottom) feeding on a softer insect Sofia...
View ArticleU of T Mississauga grad discovers little-known parasitic fly is killing local...
Erik Etzler stumbled upon Stylogaster neglecta, first described in 1890, while cleaning the lab. He says few had studied it over the past century (photo courtesy Eric Etzler)read more
View ArticleAncient North American reptiles lived on an island archipelago in South Wales
Reconstructed heads of the Ruthin reptiles – Smilodonterpeton, the chisel-toothed plant-eater (left) and Tricuspisaurus, the beaked beast (right), both of them unique to the island (scale bars=5mm)...
View ArticleNew study reveals how reptiles divided up the spoils in ancient seas
Duria Antiquior - a more ancient Dorset. Watercolour of a Mesozoic marine ecosystem by geologist Henry De la Beche, painted in 1830. Ancient oceans have fascinated natural historians since the...
View ArticleAntarctic Dinosaurs Opens at NHMU, Featuring Extreme Expeditions and Fossils...
Meet the scientists and explorers who risked their lives to reveal a dramatically different Antarctica.read more
View ArticleGiant lizards learnt to fly over millions of years
The scientists monitored changes to pterosaur flight efficiency by using fossils to measure their wingspan and body size at different stages.read more
View ArticleAll-purpose dinosaur opening reconstructed for the first time
A reconstruction of Psittacosaurus illustrating how the cloacal vent may have been used for signalling during courtship Bob Nicholls/Paleocreations.com 2020.read more
View ArticleNew Jurassic flying reptile reveals the oldest opposed thumb
Life reconstruction of K. antipollicatus (Image credit: Chuang Zhao) A new 160-million-year-old arboreal pterosaur species, dubbed ‘Monkeydactyl’, has the oldest true opposed thumb - a novel structure...
View ArticleHerbivores developed powerful jaws to digest tougher plants following the...
The evolution of herbivores is linked to the plants that survived and adapted after the ‘great dying’, when over 90% of the world’s species were wiped out 252 million years ago.read more
View ArticleSharp size reduction in dinosaurs that changed diet to termites
Painting: Artistic reconstruction of four representative alvarezsauroids, Haplocheirus sollers (left), Patagonykus puertai (upper middle), Linhenykus monodactylus (lower middle) and Bannykus wulatensis...
View ArticleDinosaurs' ascent driven by volcanoes powering climate change
Ecological changes following intense volcanic activity 230 million years ago paved the way for dinosaur dominance The rise of dinosaurs coincided with environmental changes driven by major volcanic...
View ArticleClearfork Midstream to Acquire Azure Midstream Energy, Secures Initial...
FORT WORTH, Texas – January 18, 2022 – Clearfork Midstream LLC (“Clearfork”) today announced it has secured a capital commitment from EnCap Flatrock Midstream (“EFM”) and has entered into a...
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