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A new dino #fossil may solve an ancient murder mystery
Since 2002, researchers have unearthed over 100 prehistoric #bird remains in #ChangmaBasin of NW #China. Some consist of broken bones embedded in regurgitated pellets, similar to those coughed up by owls. #Paleontologists long assumed a carnivorous #dinosaur was to blame. Fossil evidence of predator has remained elusive, until now. Newly described #microraptor species may explain avian carnage.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-dinosaur-fossil-murder-mystery
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A new dino #fossil may solve an ancient murder mystery
Since 2002, researchers have unearthed over 100 prehistoric #bird remains in #ChangmaBasin of NW #China. Some consist of broken bones embedded in regurgitated pellets, similar to those coughed up by owls. #Paleontologists long assumed a carnivorous #dinosaur was to blame. Fossil evidence of predator has remained elusive, until now. Newly described #microraptor species may explain avian carnage.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-dinosaur-fossil-murder-mystery
https://archive.ph/FF6C5 -
A new dino #fossil may solve an ancient murder mystery
Since 2002, researchers have unearthed over 100 prehistoric #bird remains in #ChangmaBasin of NW #China. Some consist of broken bones embedded in regurgitated pellets, similar to those coughed up by owls. #Paleontologists long assumed a carnivorous #dinosaur was to blame. Fossil evidence of predator has remained elusive, until now. Newly described #microraptor species may explain avian carnage.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-dinosaur-fossil-murder-mystery
https://archive.ph/FF6C5 -
A new dino #fossil may solve an ancient murder mystery
Since 2002, researchers have unearthed over 100 prehistoric #bird remains in #ChangmaBasin of NW #China. Some consist of broken bones embedded in regurgitated pellets, similar to those coughed up by owls. #Paleontologists long assumed a carnivorous #dinosaur was to blame. Fossil evidence of predator has remained elusive, until now. Newly described #microraptor species may explain avian carnage.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-dinosaur-fossil-murder-mystery
https://archive.ph/FF6C5 -
A new dino #fossil may solve an ancient murder mystery
Since 2002, researchers have unearthed over 100 prehistoric #bird remains in #ChangmaBasin of NW #China. Some consist of broken bones embedded in regurgitated pellets, similar to those coughed up by owls. #Paleontologists long assumed a carnivorous #dinosaur was to blame. Fossil evidence of predator has remained elusive, until now. Newly described #microraptor species may explain avian carnage.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-dinosaur-fossil-murder-mystery
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A New #Fossil Discovery Just Rewrote 150 Years of Evolutionary Theory
For 150 years, #paleontologists assumed that the first vertebrates to leave the sea for land evolved a tadpole phase, similar to modern #frogs. Immaculately-preserved #fossils disprove that, scientists say. To their surprise, esearchers found no evidence of a transient larval phase in the early animals, thereby “falsifying hypotheses of an ancestral origin of metamorphosis."
https://www.404media.co/a-new-fossil-discovery-just-rewrote-150-years-of-evolutionary-theory/
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A New #Fossil Discovery Just Rewrote 150 Years of Evolutionary Theory
For 150 years, #paleontologists assumed that the first vertebrates to leave the sea for land evolved a tadpole phase, similar to modern #frogs. Immaculately-preserved #fossils disprove that, scientists say. To their surprise, esearchers found no evidence of a transient larval phase in the early animals, thereby “falsifying hypotheses of an ancestral origin of metamorphosis."
https://www.404media.co/a-new-fossil-discovery-just-rewrote-150-years-of-evolutionary-theory/
https://archive.ph/QTUek -
A New #Fossil Discovery Just Rewrote 150 Years of Evolutionary Theory
For 150 years, #paleontologists assumed that the first vertebrates to leave the sea for land evolved a tadpole phase, similar to modern #frogs. Immaculately-preserved #fossils disprove that, scientists say. To their surprise, esearchers found no evidence of a transient larval phase in the early animals, thereby “falsifying hypotheses of an ancestral origin of metamorphosis."
https://www.404media.co/a-new-fossil-discovery-just-rewrote-150-years-of-evolutionary-theory/
https://archive.ph/QTUek -
A New #Fossil Discovery Just Rewrote 150 Years of Evolutionary Theory
For 150 years, #paleontologists assumed that the first vertebrates to leave the sea for land evolved a tadpole phase, similar to modern #frogs. Immaculately-preserved #fossils disprove that, scientists say. To their surprise, esearchers found no evidence of a transient larval phase in the early animals, thereby “falsifying hypotheses of an ancestral origin of metamorphosis."
https://www.404media.co/a-new-fossil-discovery-just-rewrote-150-years-of-evolutionary-theory/
https://archive.ph/QTUek -
A New #Fossil Discovery Just Rewrote 150 Years of Evolutionary Theory
For 150 years, #paleontologists assumed that the first vertebrates to leave the sea for land evolved a tadpole phase, similar to modern #frogs. Immaculately-preserved #fossils disprove that, scientists say. To their surprise, esearchers found no evidence of a transient larval phase in the early animals, thereby “falsifying hypotheses of an ancestral origin of metamorphosis."
https://www.404media.co/a-new-fossil-discovery-just-rewrote-150-years-of-evolutionary-theory/
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This Toothless, Beaked Crocodile Ancestor Walked on Two Legs
During the Triassic period there was an explosion of animal diversity. A cataclysmic extinction event at the end…
#NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #AlanTurner #animaldiversity #AU #Australia #convergentevolution #ecologicalniches #ExtinctionEvent #JournalofVertebratePaleontology #marinereptiles #Paleontologists #Science #triassicperiod
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This Toothless, Beaked Crocodile Ancestor Walked on Two Legs
During the Triassic period there was an explosion of animal diversity. A cataclysmic extinction event at the end…
#NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #AlanTurner #animaldiversity #AU #Australia #convergentevolution #ecologicalniches #ExtinctionEvent #JournalofVertebratePaleontology #marinereptiles #Paleontologists #Science #triassicperiod
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/504047/ This Toothless, Beaked Crocodile Ancestor Walked on Two Legs #AlanTurner #AnimalDiversity #ConvergentEvolution #EcologicalNiches #Éire #ExtinctionEvent #IE #Ireland #JournalOfVertebratePaleontology #MarineReptiles #Paleontologists #Science #TriassicPeriod #Wildlife
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extinction did not fit in with the story of creation. During her lifetime she was barred from even attending meetings of the Geological Society of London (let alone applying for membership) because of her sex & many wealthy “paleontologists” published claims of discovery based on having purchased fossils from Anning & other fossil hunters (neglecting to mention Anning’s name or contribution). Nonetheless, many contemporary #geologists & #paleontologists became so impressed with 🧵2/
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extinction did not fit in with the story of creation. During her lifetime she was barred from even attending meetings of the Geological Society of London (let alone applying for membership) because of her sex & many wealthy “paleontologists” published claims of discovery based on having purchased fossils from Anning & other fossil hunters (neglecting to mention Anning’s name or contribution). Nonetheless, many contemporary #geologists & #paleontologists became so impressed with 🧵2/
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extinction did not fit in with the story of creation. During her lifetime she was barred from even attending meetings of the Geological Society of London (let alone applying for membership) because of her sex & many wealthy “paleontologists” published claims of discovery based on having purchased fossils from Anning & other fossil hunters (neglecting to mention Anning’s name or contribution). Nonetheless, many contemporary #geologists & #paleontologists became so impressed with 🧵2/
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extinction did not fit in with the story of creation. During her lifetime she was barred from even attending meetings of the Geological Society of London (let alone applying for membership) because of her sex & many wealthy “paleontologists” published claims of discovery based on having purchased fossils from Anning & other fossil hunters (neglecting to mention Anning’s name or contribution). Nonetheless, many contemporary #geologists & #paleontologists became so impressed with 🧵2/
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extinction did not fit in with the story of creation. During her lifetime she was barred from even attending meetings of the Geological Society of London (let alone applying for membership) because of her sex & many wealthy “paleontologists” published claims of discovery based on having purchased fossils from Anning & other fossil hunters (neglecting to mention Anning’s name or contribution). Nonetheless, many contemporary #geologists & #paleontologists became so impressed with 🧵2/
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#Gorgosaurus ( GOR-gə-SOR-əs; lit. 'dreadful lizard') is a #genus of #tyrannosaurid #theropod #dinosaur that lived in western North America during the #LateCretaceous #Period (#Campanian), between about 76.5 and 75 #millionYearsAgo. #Fossil remains have been found in the #CanadianProvince of #Alberta and the #USState of #Montana. #Paleontologists recognize only the #typeSpecies, G. libratus, although other species have been erroneously referred to the genus. Like most known tyrannosaurids.
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I swear #climatologists think less about #climatechange, #epidemiologists think less about #vaccination, and #paleontologists think less about #evolution, than the crowd of screeching #denialists who descend like locusts on any news story even vaguely related to any of these subjects.
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I swear #climatologists think less about #climatechange, #epidemiologists think less about #vaccination, and #paleontologists think less about #evolution, than the crowd of screeching #denialists who descend like locusts on any news story even vaguely related to any of these subjects.
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I swear #climatologists think less about #climatechange, #epidemiologists think less about #vaccination, and #paleontologists think less about #evolution, than the crowd of screeching #denialists who descend like locusts on any news story even vaguely related to any of these subjects.
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I swear #climatologists think less about #climatechange, #epidemiologists think less about #vaccination, and #paleontologists think less about #evolution, than the crowd of screeching #denialists who descend like locusts on any news story even vaguely related to any of these subjects.
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RAWR!: The Best New #Dinosaur #Books for Little #Paleontologists
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RAWR!: The Best New #Dinosaur #Books for Little #Paleontologists
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RAWR!: The Best New #Dinosaur #Books for Little #Paleontologists
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RAWR!: The Best New #Dinosaur #Books for Little #Paleontologists
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RAWR!: The Best New #Dinosaur #Books for Little #Paleontologists
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The #Megaraptor Had Giant Claws and an Appetite for Crocodilians
A #fossil of the 23-foot-tall #predator could help unlock secrets of an order of #dinosaurs that remain poorly understood.
As the team of #paleontologists worked on the remains, they realized that a bone tucked between the jaws was not from the #skeleton: it was, instead, the upper arm bone of a #crocodile relative. The dinosaur’s teeth were actually touching the crocodile bone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/science/megaraptor-fossil-crocodile.html
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The #Megaraptor Had Giant Claws and an Appetite for Crocodilians
A #fossil of the 23-foot-tall #predator could help unlock secrets of an order of #dinosaurs that remain poorly understood.
As the team of #paleontologists worked on the remains, they realized that a bone tucked between the jaws was not from the #skeleton: it was, instead, the upper arm bone of a #crocodile relative. The dinosaur’s teeth were actually touching the crocodile bone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/science/megaraptor-fossil-crocodile.html
https://archive.ph/NDhhG -
The #Megaraptor Had Giant Claws and an Appetite for Crocodilians
A #fossil of the 23-foot-tall #predator could help unlock secrets of an order of #dinosaurs that remain poorly understood.
As the team of #paleontologists worked on the remains, they realized that a bone tucked between the jaws was not from the #skeleton: it was, instead, the upper arm bone of a #crocodile relative. The dinosaur’s teeth were actually touching the crocodile bone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/science/megaraptor-fossil-crocodile.html
https://archive.ph/NDhhG -
The #Megaraptor Had Giant Claws and an Appetite for Crocodilians
A #fossil of the 23-foot-tall #predator could help unlock secrets of an order of #dinosaurs that remain poorly understood.
As the team of #paleontologists worked on the remains, they realized that a bone tucked between the jaws was not from the #skeleton: it was, instead, the upper arm bone of a #crocodile relative. The dinosaur’s teeth were actually touching the crocodile bone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/science/megaraptor-fossil-crocodile.html
https://archive.ph/NDhhG -
The #Megaraptor Had Giant Claws and an Appetite for Crocodilians
A #fossil of the 23-foot-tall #predator could help unlock secrets of an order of #dinosaurs that remain poorly understood.
As the team of #paleontologists worked on the remains, they realized that a bone tucked between the jaws was not from the #skeleton: it was, instead, the upper arm bone of a #crocodile relative. The dinosaur’s teeth were actually touching the crocodile bone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/science/megaraptor-fossil-crocodile.html
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From #Dinosaur Scratches to #Insects in #Amber, How #Paleontologists Uncover #Prehistoric Courtship
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From #Dinosaur Scratches to #Insects in #Amber, How #Paleontologists Uncover #Prehistoric Courtship
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From #Dinosaur Scratches to #Insects in #Amber, How #Paleontologists Uncover #Prehistoric Courtship
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From #Dinosaur Scratches to #Insects in #Amber, How #Paleontologists Uncover #Prehistoric Courtship
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From #Dinosaur Scratches to #Insects in #Amber, How #Paleontologists Uncover #Prehistoric Courtship
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Scientists discover creature ‘beyond imagination’ encased in 99 million-year-old amber https://www.byteseu.com/1084091/ #Myanmar #nature #paleontologists #Paleontology #Science #scientists #Wasps
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Gothamist: Paleontologist says NJ school lost his 380M-year-old fossils, and now they’re in a landfill. “A professor said the North Jersey university where he works lost his collection of 380 million-year-old fossils. In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, paleontologist Martin Becker accuses William Paterson University in Wayne of negligence in caring for the fossils, which he was trying to […]
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Cretaceous #fossil from #Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-cretaceous-fossil-antarctica-reveals-earliest.html#Cretaceous Antarctic bird skull elucidates early avian ecological diversity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08390-0
"Few #birds are as likely to start as many arguments among #paleontologists as #Vegavis. This new fossil is going to help resolve a lot of those arguments. Chief among them: where is Vegavis perched in the bird tree of life?"
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Cretaceous #fossil from #Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-cretaceous-fossil-antarctica-reveals-earliest.html#Cretaceous Antarctic bird skull elucidates early avian ecological diversity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08390-0
"Few #birds are as likely to start as many arguments among #paleontologists as #Vegavis. This new fossil is going to help resolve a lot of those arguments. Chief among them: where is Vegavis perched in the bird tree of life?"
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Cretaceous #fossil from #Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-cretaceous-fossil-antarctica-reveals-earliest.html#Cretaceous Antarctic bird skull elucidates early avian ecological diversity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08390-0
"Few #birds are as likely to start as many arguments among #paleontologists as #Vegavis. This new fossil is going to help resolve a lot of those arguments. Chief among them: where is Vegavis perched in the bird tree of life?"
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Cretaceous #fossil from #Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-cretaceous-fossil-antarctica-reveals-earliest.html#Cretaceous Antarctic bird skull elucidates early avian ecological diversity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08390-0
"Few #birds are as likely to start as many arguments among #paleontologists as #Vegavis. This new fossil is going to help resolve a lot of those arguments. Chief among them: where is Vegavis perched in the bird tree of life?"
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Cretaceous #fossil from #Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-cretaceous-fossil-antarctica-reveals-earliest.html#Cretaceous Antarctic bird skull elucidates early avian ecological diversity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08390-0
"Few #birds are as likely to start as many arguments among #paleontologists as #Vegavis. This new fossil is going to help resolve a lot of those arguments. Chief among them: where is Vegavis perched in the bird tree of life?"
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#Paleontologists Discover Extremely Rare 45-Million-Year-Old #Bird #Fossil Hiding in Plain Sight
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#Paleontologists Discover Extremely Rare 45-Million-Year-Old #Bird #Fossil Hiding in Plain Sight
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#Paleontologists Discover Extremely Rare 45-Million-Year-Old #Bird #Fossil Hiding in Plain Sight
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#Paleontologists Discover Extremely Rare 45-Million-Year-Old #Bird #Fossil Hiding in Plain Sight
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#Paleontologists Discover Extremely Rare 45-Million-Year-Old #Bird #Fossil Hiding in Plain Sight
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How to Make a Mammal in Nine Evolutionary Steps https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-to-make-a-mammal-in-nine-evolutionary-steps-180985289/ by Riley Black
"#Paleontologists have known for decades that #mammals emerged from a broader, diverse group of creatures called #synapsids... Nevertheless, a big evolutionary gap exists between a very early, lizard-like synapsid and modern mammals like ourselves."
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How to Make a Mammal in Nine Evolutionary Steps https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-to-make-a-mammal-in-nine-evolutionary-steps-180985289/ by Riley Black
"#Paleontologists have known for decades that #mammals emerged from a broader, diverse group of creatures called #synapsids... Nevertheless, a big evolutionary gap exists between a very early, lizard-like synapsid and modern mammals like ourselves."
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How to Make a Mammal in Nine Evolutionary Steps https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-to-make-a-mammal-in-nine-evolutionary-steps-180985289/ by Riley Black
"#Paleontologists have known for decades that #mammals emerged from a broader, diverse group of creatures called #synapsids... Nevertheless, a big evolutionary gap exists between a very early, lizard-like synapsid and modern mammals like ourselves."
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How to Make a Mammal in Nine Evolutionary Steps https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-to-make-a-mammal-in-nine-evolutionary-steps-180985289/ by Riley Black
"#Paleontologists have known for decades that #mammals emerged from a broader, diverse group of creatures called #synapsids... Nevertheless, a big evolutionary gap exists between a very early, lizard-like synapsid and modern mammals like ourselves."
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How to Make a Mammal in Nine Evolutionary Steps https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-to-make-a-mammal-in-nine-evolutionary-steps-180985289/ by Riley Black
"#Paleontologists have known for decades that #mammals emerged from a broader, diverse group of creatures called #synapsids... Nevertheless, a big evolutionary gap exists between a very early, lizard-like synapsid and modern mammals like ourselves."
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Therapsids Originated in Tropical Rather than Temperate Regions https://www.sci.news/paleontology/mallorca-gorgonopsian-13515.html
Early–middle Permian Mediterranean gorgonopsian suggests an equatorial origin of therapsids https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54425-5
"#Therapsids were a dominant component of #Permian terrestrial ecosystems, eventually giving rise to #mammals during the early #Mesozoic... #Paleontologists have discovered a #NewSpecies of early #gorgonopsian #therapsid that was part of an ancient summer wet biome of equatorial #Pangea"
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Therapsids Originated in Tropical Rather than Temperate Regions https://www.sci.news/paleontology/mallorca-gorgonopsian-13515.html
Early–middle Permian Mediterranean gorgonopsian suggests an equatorial origin of therapsids https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54425-5
"#Therapsids were a dominant component of #Permian terrestrial ecosystems, eventually giving rise to #mammals during the early #Mesozoic... #Paleontologists have discovered a #NewSpecies of early #gorgonopsian #therapsid that was part of an ancient summer wet biome of equatorial #Pangea"
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Therapsids Originated in Tropical Rather than Temperate Regions https://www.sci.news/paleontology/mallorca-gorgonopsian-13515.html
Early–middle Permian Mediterranean gorgonopsian suggests an equatorial origin of therapsids https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54425-5
"#Therapsids were a dominant component of #Permian terrestrial ecosystems, eventually giving rise to #mammals during the early #Mesozoic... #Paleontologists have discovered a #NewSpecies of early #gorgonopsian #therapsid that was part of an ancient summer wet biome of equatorial #Pangea"
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Therapsids Originated in Tropical Rather than Temperate Regions https://www.sci.news/paleontology/mallorca-gorgonopsian-13515.html
Early–middle Permian Mediterranean gorgonopsian suggests an equatorial origin of therapsids https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54425-5
"#Therapsids were a dominant component of #Permian terrestrial ecosystems, eventually giving rise to #mammals during the early #Mesozoic... #Paleontologists have discovered a #NewSpecies of early #gorgonopsian #therapsid that was part of an ancient summer wet biome of equatorial #Pangea"
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Therapsids Originated in Tropical Rather than Temperate Regions https://www.sci.news/paleontology/mallorca-gorgonopsian-13515.html
Early–middle Permian Mediterranean gorgonopsian suggests an equatorial origin of therapsids https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54425-5
"#Therapsids were a dominant component of #Permian terrestrial ecosystems, eventually giving rise to #mammals during the early #Mesozoic... #Paleontologists have discovered a #NewSpecies of early #gorgonopsian #therapsid that was part of an ancient summer wet biome of equatorial #Pangea"