New research published today in theJournal of Vertebrate Paleontologydescribes a bizarre 66 million-year-old mammal that provides profound new insights into the evolutionary history of mammals from the southern supercontinent Gondwana – recognized today as Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica, the...
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根据第三段中The cones belong to the species Cycas revoluta, which is planted at Ventnor Botanic Garden on the Isle of Wight, an island with average temperatures that are warmer than the rest of the United Kingdom.这些球果属于苏铁属植物,种植在怀特岛的文特诺植物园,这个岛的平均温度比英国其他...
We may not have dinosaurs roaming Antarctica again, but we can’t rule out it being ice free in the future, and we have no way of knowing what that would be like for humans as we have never lived on Earth when there wasn’t ice at the poles. ...
This "living dinosaurs" motif makes even more sense if you consider not modern birds—which are mostly a tiny, docile lot compared to their distant ancestors—but the gigantic "terror birds" that lived in South America during theCenozoic Era. The biggest terror bird of them all,Phorusrhacos,...
It was a two-legged carnivorous theropod that lived around 228 million years ago, in what is now the northwestern region of Argentina. The type species is Eoraptor lunensis, which means 'dawn plunderer from the Valley of the Moon', denoting where it was originally discovered. Paleontologists ...
The mystery is heightened when one realises that the dinosaurs were well adapted to their environments and apparently had a worldwide distribution. Dinosaurs have been unearthed on every continent, including Antarctica.1,2 Their traces are even found on a few isolated oceanic islands, such as ...
They lived inNorth America, South America, Australia, Europe, Asia, Africa and even Antarctica. They lived on the ground, in the skies and in the seas. Just about every inhabitable corner of the planet had dinosaurs. However, not all dinosaurs lived together at the same time or in the sa...
species during this time. Flowering plants started to dominate, and some of the largest dinosaurs began a long reign across the world. The world also began to resemble the distinct continents we see today with Australia, South America, North America, and Antarctica all taking on separate forms....
The "type fossil" of the titanosaur Antarctosaurus was discovered on the southernmost tip of South America; despite its name, it's unclear if this dinosaur actually lived in nearby Antarctica (which, during the Cretaceous period, had a much warmer climate). It's also unclear if the handful...