News articles tagged with 'palaeontologist'
Palaeontologists audition modern examples of ancient behaviour
— 17 Mar 2011 17:29 | Geology and palaeontologyPalaeontologists agree that it's difficult to observe behaviour in fossil specimens that are dead - even extinct - and petrified. One method is to find a modern, living, species that…
Earth's sixth mass extinction: Is it almost here?
— 4 Mar 2011 15:06 | EnvironmentWith the steep decline in populations of many animal species, scientists have warned that Earth is on the brink of a mass extinction like those that have occurred just five times during…
Has the Earth's sixth mass extinction already arrived?
— 3 Mar 2011 13:44 | EnvironmentWith the steep decline in populations of many animal species, from frogs and fish to tigers, some scientists have warned that Earth is on the brink of a mass extinction like those that…
UF Pine Island pollen study leads to revision of state's ancient geography
— 3 Mar 2011 13:02 | Geology and palaeontologyA new University of Florida study of 45-million-year-old pollen from Pine Island west of Fort Myers has led to a new understanding of the state's geologic history, showing Florida could…
T. rex more hyena than lion
— 23 Feb 2011 17:34 | Geology and palaeontologyThe ferocious Tyrannosaurus rex has been depicted as the top dog of the Cretaceous, ruthlessly stalking herds of duck-billed dinosaurs and claiming the role of apex predator, much as…
Newly discovered dinosaur likely father of Triceratops
— 1 Feb 2011 19:39 | Geology and palaeontologyTriceratops and Torosaurus have long been considered the kings of the horned dinosaurs. But a new discovery traces the giants' family tree further back in time, when a newly discovered…
Test shows dinosaurs survived mass extinction by 700,000 years
— 28 Jan 2011 17:24 | Geology and palaeontologyUniversity of Alberta researchers determined that a fossilised dinosaur bone found in New Mexico confounds the long established paradigm that the age of dinosaurs ended between 65.5…
New predator 'dawn runner' discovered in early dinosaur graveyard
— 14 Jan 2011 15:35 | Geology and palaeontologyA team of palaeontologists and geologists from Argentina and the United States on Jan. 13 announced the discovery of a lanky dinosaur that roamed South America in search of prey as…
Found: First complete remains of early sauropod dinosaur
— 29 Oct 2010 13:27 | Geology and palaeontologyScientists have discovered in China the first complete skeleton of a pivotal ancestor of Earth's largest land animals - the sauropod dinosaurs. The new species, tentatively dubbed Yizhousaurus…
Into Africa? Fossils suggest earliest anthropoids colonised Africa
— 28 Oct 2010 14:18 | Geology and palaeontologyToday in the journal Nature, a new discovery described by a team of international scientists, including Carnegie Museum of Natural History palaeontologist Christopher Beard, suggests…