New fossils unearthed in Texas suggest that sharks during the Early Cretaceous were much larger than previously thought. The top image shows the estimated body size of a shark fossil found in a 100-million-year-old deposit in Kansas. The middle shark represents the size estimated for the new ...
99.6% of Texas' 254 counties are now home to the feral animals. Meanwhile, studies noted that 2.6 million of the creatures were estimated to be living in Texas as of 2016 — a figure that has grown to more than 3 million in the years since. ...
Location Texas (and North Dakota), United States Member Title: MotM - February 2021 - Naturalist Posted April 21, 2021 On 4/21/2021 at 1:30 PM, Norki said: I think these are steinkerns of freshwater mussels, Unionidae. I've seen similar ones in the Dinosaur Park Form...
Some people think that dinosaur fossils found in this way, may perhaps have inspired legends of dragons. One scholar (Adrienne Mayor of Stanford) has suggested that the legend of the griffin (a mythical beast which supposedly had the head and wings of an eagle, but the limbs and body of...
There are currently fewer than 200 modern species of caecilians, which live in the wet, tropical regions of South America, Africa and Southeast Asia. But the two ancient fossil amphibians found in the late 1990s by Bryan Small, study co-author and a research associate at Texas Tech University...
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making them the oldest human ancestral fossils ever found outside Africa, the cradle continent for all of humanity."This is the first time that we have a firm date about the very early immigrants from Africa," said Reid Ferring, a scientist from the University of North Texas in Denton and...
in the capital,Addis Ababa,is a replica while the real remains are usually locked in a secret storeroom.A team from the Museum of National Science in Houston,Texas,spent four years discussing with the Ethiopians for the U.S.tour,which will start in Houston next September.“Ethiopia's rich ...
First are the Lagerpetonidae, named for Lagerpeton, a Middle Triassic, small, rabbitlike, long-legged form known mainly from a hind limb discovered in Argentina in the 1960s. In 2007 a related and much more complete form dated to the Late Triassic of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas ...
it's worth noting that the carapace that was found wasCRUSHEDand thus a possible reason for why the sutures are separate. My guess, if it isD. bellus, the piece is not from the buckler. The skull is more likely, because the buckler needs someflexibilitywhich is not evident in the images...