Mary Anning’s later life is explored in Ammonite, starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan. The film does a good job of showing the hard work involved in paleontology, but the portrayal of Anning isn’t entirely based on fact Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2258592-ammonite-review-heres-the-true-story-of-palaeontologist-mary-anning/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Tag: Paleontology
Chance fossil discovery reveals ancient marine reptile
Scientists raced against a rising tide to recover a tantalizing fossil on an island in southeast Alaska. It turned out to be a species new to science. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/alaskan-fossil-reveals-new-marine-reptile-species…
Fossil reveals how feathered dinosaurs differed from birds
The fossil of this new-to-science dinosaur offers a view into dinosaur-bird evolution. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/fossil-feathered-dinosaurs-differed-from-birds…
Tiny stature of extinct ‘Hobbit’ thanks to fast evolution
New research suggests that the tiny human species – that survived until about 18,000 years ago, later than any human species other than our own – evolved its small size remarkably quickly while living on an isolated island. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/tiny-extinct-hobbit-human-species-fast-evolution…
Fossils reveal new details about hadrosaur’s appearance
More evidence for a showy, fleshy snout for the hadrosaur, part of the family of duck-billed dinosaurs. These creatures lived 75 million years ago in what’s now northern Montana and southern Alberta, Canada. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/juvenile-hadrosaur-fossil-reveals-fleshy-snout…
New Statistical Study Links Sea Monster Descriptions to Dinosaur Discoveries
If they exist today, what exactly do sea serpents look like? If your description includes a long neck attached to a large bulky body, that doesn’t really sound like ‘serpent’ – does it? According to a new study, the portrayals of mythical creatures referred to as sea serpents changed during the 18th century as more… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/04/new-statistical-study-links-sea-monster-descriptions-to-dinosaur-discoveries/…
Scientists Discover 42,000-Year-Old Liquid Blood in Preserved Foal
The well-preserved condition of the animal is giving hope to researchers trying to clone extinct animals. Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj9x3a/scientists-discover-42000-year-old-liquid-blood-in-preserved-foal…
Ancient ‘Texas Serengeti’ had rhinos, alligators, 12 kinds of horses
A new study of fossils unearthed by Depression-era workers reveal that camels, antelopes and relatives of modern elephants and dogs were among the animals that roamed a veritable “Texas Serengeti” millions of years ago. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/ancient-texas-serengeti-fossils…
Newly Discovered Ancient Carnivore Was Bigger Than a Polar Bear and Is True Nightmare Fuel
New research describes the remains of a gigantic, four-legged mammalian carnivore that terrorized Africa some 22 million years ago.Read more…Source: https://gizmodo.com/newly-discovered-ancient-carnivore-was-bigger-than-a-po-1834136617…
Intricate Skin Impressions Still Visible on ‘Exquisitely Preserved’ Dinosaur Footprints
During the Early Cretaceous, a small two-legged dinosaur walked across a stretch of fine-grained mud following a rainstorm. The resulting footprints became locked in stone, but unlike other fossilized dinosaur tracks, these 120-million-year-old fossils show skin impressions across the entire footprint, in what is… Read more… Source: https://gizmodo.com/intricate-skin-impressions-still-visible-on-exquisitel-1833912397