New Feathered Dinosaur Suggests Flight Evolved More Than Once among Birds’ Closest Relatives
Norellraptor barsboldi, a new species of small microraptorine dinosaur from the 120-million-year-old rock beds of China’s Liaoning province,…
Ichthyosaurs Had Surprisingly Dense Ribs, New Study Finds
Long before whales ruled the oceans, dolphin-shaped marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs patrolled the same waters. New research from…
Ancient DNA Rewrites Story of Enigmatic ‘American Cheetah’
For several decades, paleontologists have described Miracinonyx trumani — an extinct species of cheetah-like felid that roamed the…
Fossil Evidence Pushes Back Origin of Live Birth by 90 Million Years
Paleontologists studying a 236-million-year-old cynodont fossil from Argentina say they have found the earliest evidence yet of viviparity…
Octopuses Use Mirrors to Map Space Like Primates and Dolphins
The post Octopuses Use Mirrors to Map Space Like Primates and Dolphins appeared first on A-Z Animals. If…
This Toothless, Beaked Crocodile Ancestor Walked on Two Legs
During the Triassic period there was an explosion of animal diversity. A cataclysmic extinction event at the end…
Two Jurassic Mammal Relatives Had Uniquely Shaped Jaw Joints
The evolution of the modern mammal jaw is more complex than previously thought, according to a new analysis…