Tag: fossils

Plastic “fossils” help scientists reconstruct the history of bird nests

One man's garbage is a common coot treasure, at least when it…

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Perfect feathered fossils do not preserve the volcano’s sustainability

The 30,000-year-old vulture feathers in central Italy were preserved to microscopic levels…

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Antarctic fossils 69 million years ago reveal the early birds of the Earth

The ancestors of modern waterfowl were not so strange. Diving in Antarctica…

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Review of higher-order phylogenetics of scorpion fossils

Scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) are a diverse and widespread order of arachnids with…

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Amazingly preserved pterosaur fossils reveal how they flew

Smaller pterosaurs may have flapped their wings, while larger ones may have…

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