Soft-tissue preservation in the wing of an Early Cretaceous bird
October 7th, 2015 | by David Marshall
Birds have a long evolutionary history; the earliest of them, the famed Archaeopteryx, lived 150 million years ago in what [&hellip
Browsing the "Evolution" Tag
Early primate growth history
September 16th, 2015 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
Primate evolution is something that is heavily debated and not very well understood in palaeontology, but it is still heavily [&hellip
Evolution of the ankylosaur tail club
September 8th, 2015 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
Ankylosaurs are the large, tank-like, armoured dinosaurs that often had a large boney club at the end of their tail. The [&hellip
New dromaeosaurid – Meet Zhenyuanlong
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
Episode 32: Canids
August 5th, 2014 | by David Marshall
We’re all familiar with canines (dogs, wolves, jackals, foxes, etc), but these are just only one of three sub-families of [&hellip
Episode 28: From worms to stars
May 1st, 2014 | by Joe Keating
Echinoderms are characterised by a mineralised skeleton, specialised water vascular system and five-fold symmetry. It is this unusual body plane symmetry [&hellip
Episode 26: The Tree of Mammals
February 1st, 2014 | by Joe Keating
Mammals are an incredibly diverse and highly successful group of animals. They include some of the tallest, heaviest and fastest [&hellip
Episode 24: Marsupial evolution
January 1st, 2014 | by Laura Soul
Marsupials are a group of mammals best known from Australia, but are also present in South America and up to [&hellip
Episode 20: Year Review
September 15th, 2013 | by Joe Keating
As Palaeocast celebrates it’s 1st Birthday, we take the chance to look back over the past year and review our [&hellip
Episode 19: The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event
September 1st, 2013 | by Joe Keating
The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, or ‘GOBE’, describes one of the most important increases in biodiversity in the history of [&hellip
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