Picture: The skeleton of Primoptynx poliotaurus check out more Credit rating: Senckenberg Exploration Institute Paleontologists have described in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology a large owl that killed medium-sized mammals with its ft and claws some 55 million decades back. “Right now, owls kill with their beak,” says paleontologist Thierry Smith […]
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Mainz U history department secures EUR 2.8 million in EU funding to promote young researchers
Picture: Monument with epigram from the tomb of the twelve-year old Erasina in Carinthia (2nd century A.D.) perspective more Credit rating: photo/©: P. Kruschwitz Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has been awarded EUR two.eighty two million for a European Progressive Coaching Community (ITN) with 7 European partner institutions. Above the class […]
Lacustrine ecosystems needed 10 million years to recover after end-permian mass extinction
Image: A-C: fish coprolites D and E: sliced photomicrographs of fish coprolite F and G: beetles H: fish I: ostracoda J: tadpole shrimp perspective more Credit history: NIGPAS The end-Permian mass extinction (EPME), close to 252 million many years ago (Ma), brought on a serious maritime and terrestrial ecosystem crisis, and […]
‘Little Foot’ skull reveals how this more than 3 million year old human ancestor lived
Graphic: Comparison of the virtually intact initially cervical vertebra of ‘Little Foot’ and two other Australopithecus from Sterkfontein in South Africa and from Hadar in Ethiopia displaying how complete ‘Little Foot’… watch more Credit score: Amélie Beaudet/Wits University Superior-resolution micro-CT scanning of the skull of the fossil specimen identified as “Minor […]
Ancient Shell Has Revealed Exactly How Much Shorter Days Were 70 Million Years Ago
A chunk of rock that had been buried in the ground for thousands and thousands of several years has grow to be a new clock for understanding Earth’s rotation. Evaluation of a fossilised Cretaceous-era bivalve shell has exposed that our planet’s days were being 50 percent an hour shorter 70 […]