Tag: paleontology
Paleontology: I’ll eat you, big guy
Reassessed fossils reveal dramatic struggle 125 million years ago. The rebellion of mammals against dinosaurs may have started as early as the Cretaceous. source site
SZ-Klimafreitag: Here comes the climate crisis dinosaur – knowledge
Do you know the dinosaur “Iani smithi”? Probably not, because it was described for the first time a few weeks ago, and even in the SZ science department, this ancient…
Long necks made dinosaurs easy prey – knowledge
“Giraffe neck dinosaurs” had a very special skeleton. The neck of the Tanystropheus hydroides was about as long as the body and tail combined. It is possible that more than…
Munich: Research on prehistoric tooth enamel – Munich
Rani Bakkour, 40, is an environmental chemist at the Technical University of Munich. Recently, together with Tina Lüdecke from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz and Cajetan Neubauer…
Why Did the Great Apes Rise? New research invalidates theory – knowledge
From Hubert Filser The picture is somewhat reminiscent of the biblical story of Adam and Eve. Fruit is hanging from a tree, and a great ape stretches, raises its upper…
Anthropology: Why the Great Apes Arose
In East Africa, steppes and savannas have existed for almost twice as long as previously thought. So didn’t the ancestors of man raise themselves up in order to get better…
Paleontology: How Mammoths Survived the Ice Age – Knowledge
Smaller ears, thicker fur: A genome analysis shows how woolly mammoths have adapted to the climate over hundreds of thousands of years. A research team led by David Díez-del-Molino from…
Paleontology: Another T-Rex myth shattered
The Tyrannosaurus rex probably looked less monstrous than expected: instead of constantly baring its teeth, the dinosaur apparently had some kind of lips. source site
Record dinosaur: 15 meter long neck, small head – knowledge
The dinosaur species Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum lived in what is now East Asia and other parts of the world more than 160 million years ago and is believed to be the…
Paleontology: Researchers find dinosaurs with the longest necks ever
paleontology Researchers find dinosaurs with the longest neck ever The Natural History Museum’s undated illustration shows “Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorums”. photo © Julia D Oliveira/ Natural Histor/Natural History Museum via PA Media/dpa…