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Fossil bird shows fatal stone-filled throat and hints of dinosaur bird survival story
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 A small Cretaceous bird fossil from northeastern China preserves more than 800 tiny stones jammed in its throat, giving researchers rare evidence that this individual likely died by choking. The animal lived about 120 million years ago, and its remains capture both how it may have behaved before death and how it fits into the broader story of dinosaur and bird evolution. Jingmai O'Connor, associate curator of fossil reptiles at Chicago's Field Museum and lead author of the new species description ... read more |
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'You don't need a big brain to fly' and other lessons from the first flying reptilesBlacksburg VA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 Flight evolved only three times among vertebrates: in bats, birds, and the extinct flying reptile called pterosaurs. Of these, pterosaurs were the first to master flight, more than 215 million ... more 
Pterosaur brains evolved pathways to flight different from birdsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2025 New research reveals that pterosaurs developed their neurological capabilities for flight independently from birds. An international team studied the fossilized brain structures of ancient flying re ... more 
Ancient giant shark fossils reveal early mega-predator dominance in Australian seasBerlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 25, 2025 Researchers have identified fossils of a gigantic lamniform shark that lived off northern Australia 115 million years ago. This predator achieved massive body size much earlier in shark evolutionary ... more 
Drilling deep to study the oxygenation of EarthWashington DC (SPX) Nov 24, 2025 Some 2.3 to 2.4 billion years ago, Earth underwent a monumental transformation that forever altered the planet's course. Cyanobacteria evolved a new kind of photosynthesis that unleashed tremendous ... more |
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Evidence suggests ancient Australians valued fossils rather than causing megafauna extinctionSydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 23, 2025 New research led by palaeontologists from UNSW Sydney undermines the long-held view that Indigenous Australians hunted the nation's giant prehistoric animals, instead presenting evidence that they m ... more 
Ancient sea creatures may have navigated using Earth's magnetic fieldBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 21, 2025 Some of the earliest marine organisms may have possessed a natural compass that helped them find their way through ancient oceans, according to a new study led by researchers from the Helmholtz Cent ... more 
Nickel and urea hints reshape story of early Earth oxygen riseTokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 10, 2025 The appearance of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere was a turning point in the history of our planet, forever transforming the environment and setting the stage for complex life. This event, known as the ... more 
USF study: Ancient plankton hint at steadier future for ocean lifeSt.Petersburg, FL (SPX) Oct 13, 2025 A team of scientists has uncovered a rare isotope in microscopic fossils, offering fresh evidence that ocean ecosystems may be more resilient than once feared. In a new study co-led by Patrick ... more
Ancient hot springs reveal how microbes thrived before Earth gained oxygenTokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 25, 2025 Earth was once an anoxic planet where oxygen was toxic to life, and researchers are turning to Japan's rare iron-rich hot springs to better understand how early microbes survived. A study led by Fat ... more |
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Asteroid tells secrets of Earth's 'far wetter' building blocks
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 10, 2025 Earth's building blocks were "far wetter" than previously imagined, new analysis of tiny samples from a distant asteroid has suggested, overturning long-held assumptions about the early solar system. Research on a tiny portion of the 5.4 grams of rock and dust collected from the Ryugu asteroid, some 300 million kilometres (185 million miles) from Earth, offers new insights into how the solar system looked in the early life of our planet. Scientists believe the reason Earth has oceans, lakes and ... read more 
Earth's chemistry settled early but later collision likely delivered water for lifeLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2025 Earths chemical make-up reached completion within the first three million years of the Solar Systems formation, according to a new study by the University of Berns Institute of Geological Sciences. ... more |
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Paleontologists discover dinosaur-era crocodile in PatagoniaWashington DC (UPI) Aug 29, 2025 An interdisciplinary team of specialists from Argentina's National Scientific and Technical Research Council, or CONICET, discovered most of the skeleton - including the skull and jaws - of a large hypercarnivorous crocodile that lived in southern Argentina about 70 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period. ... more
Hidden order uncovered in geological epochs across Earth's deep historyBerlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 25, 2025 A new international study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals that geological epochs and periods, while seemingly random, actually follow a hidden hierarchical structure. The wo ... more 
Fossil discoveries in southern Africa reveal life before catastrophic Permian extinctionSeattle WA (SPX) Aug 13, 2025 An international research team has spent more than 15 years unearthing fossils across southern Africa to better understand life in the Permian period, which began 299 million years ago and ended 252 ... more 
Scientists find 74-million-year-old mammal fossil in ChileSantiago (AFP) Aug 12, 2025 Scientists have discovered the fossil of a tiny mouse-sized mammal that lived in the time of the dinosaurs in Chilean Patagonia. ... more
Trilobite limb study reveals unexpected mobility and mating appendagesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2025 Scientists at Harvard University have reconstructed the movement and function of 500-million-year-old trilobite limbs, offering new insight into one of Earth's earliest arthropods. By analyzing 156 ... more |
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