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Triassic-Jurassic Extinction

August 11th, 2015 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

A new study out today looks at the question of whether or not geographically widespread species are less likely to [&hellip

July 31st, 2015 | by David Marshall

Synapsids are one of the major groups of terrestrial vertebrates. They first appear in the Carboniferous period and since that [&hellip

July 28th, 2015 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

A new study out today has looked at the tooth development of theropod dinosaurs and found they had a novel [&hellip

July 20th, 2015 | by David Marshall

New Study: Constraining the Deep Origin of Parasitic Flatworms and Host-Interactions with Fossil Evidence Many humans or their pets have [&hellip

July 17th, 2015 | by David Marshall

The Burgess Shale is probably the world’s most famous lagerstätte (site of special preservation). Discovered in 1909 on Mt. Stephen, [&hellip

July 16th, 2015 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

Another new feathered dinosaur has been described today from the Early Cretaceous of China. Zhenyuanlong joins the ever expanding list of [&hellip

July 8th, 2015 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

Today, a new ceratopsian was named, Wendiceratops pinhornensis. While known to the public for sometime, it has now been officially named and [&hellip

June 29th, 2015 | by David Marshall

It’s been quite a week for lobopodians! First off, we’ve had the redescription of Hallucigenia by Dr Martin Smith. This [&hellip

June 15th, 2015 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

The world is currently undergoing a massive biodiversity crisis, and many people have said that we are in the next [&hellip

June 12th, 2015 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

A new study out today has produced the world’s first ichthyosaur endocast, which can tell us a lot more about [&hellip