Paleontologists have discovered sets of fossils representing three new ichthyosaurs that may have been among the largest animals to have ever lived, reports a new research paper published on April 27, 2022, in the peer-reviewedJournal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Unearthed in the Swiss Alps between...
The 37-million-year-old fossil bones were so large, experts thought they were boulders. They may have come from the heaviest animal that ever lived.
Recent innovations in the development and application of animal-borne camera tags offer a unique opportunity for biologically relevant ground truthing and classification of habitat that extends well beyond human capacity21,22. This is because highly mobile animals can move great distances over short per...
Kronosaurus ruled in the early Cretaceous (about 112 million years ago) in the shallow epicontinental seas of present-day Australia and Colombia. The animal was known in 1899 thanks to Andrew Crombie from Hughenden (Australia, Queensland), who discovered a piece of bone containing 6 conical teet...
Very fewSpinosaurusfossils have been discovered, and no complete remains have been found. The firstSpinosauruspartial skeleton was unearthed in 1912 by Richard Markgraf in the Bahariya Formation of western Egypt. These original remains, which weredescribed and named by Ernst Stromer in 1915, were ...
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As well as evidence of human habitation, the caves are home to countless animal species – from the insects that have only been discovered in these caves to the millions of bats and swiftlets that cling to the walls and rooftops. You’ll need to be relatively fit and able-bodied to trave...
Which group of organisms has the most discovered species? What is the eon in which the animals occurred? Are there more species of large or small animals? What are animal species called that exhibit long gestation periods, give birth to relatively large offspring, and maintain populations n...
Now that researchers have uncovered a complete Arthropleura head, they hope the discovery can help them solve other riddles about the giant animal, including what it ate and how it breathed. But other fossils that preserve additional aspects of the arthropod’s body, including the head of an a...
In 2010, the Chagos Archipelago was officially named a protected marine area, prohibiting it from being fished commercially. This ring-shaped reef in the Indian Ocean was not studied extensively until more recent years. In 2010, a mangrove forest was discovered. The Great Chagos Bank is the la...