Mummified cave cheetahs inform rewilding actions in Saudi Arabia
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Wolf pup’s stomach yields DNA from one of world’s last surviving woolly rhinos
Woolly rhinos (Coelodonta antiquitatis) lived in Eurasia during the Pleistocene period (artist’s impression).Credit: Mark P. Witton/SPL Roughly 14,400…
A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe
Csiki-Sava, Z., Buffetaut, E., Ősi, A., Pereda-Suberbiola, X. & Brusatte, S. L. Island life in the Cretaceous —…
Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark
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Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes
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Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya
Laland, K. N. & O’Brien, M. J. Niche construction theory and archaeology. J. Archaeol. Method Th. 1, 20…
A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation
Nesbitt, S. J. et al. Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira. Nature 464, 95–98…
palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds
Credit: Katja Heinemann/Aurora/Cavan/Alamy Mark Norell, whose discoveries helped to demonstrate that birds are living dinosaurs, has died aged…
Convergent evolution of diverse jaw joints in mammaliamorphs
Crompton, A. The cranial morphology of a new genus and species of ictidosauran. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 130,…
The oldest known lepidosaur and origins of lepidosaur feeding adaptations
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