7 stories tagged paleontology, newest first.
52 points by gmays | 5 comments
University of Cambridge news article on research suggesting the spread of collagen-degrading enzymes to aerobic bacteria explains the decline of soft-bodied fossils after the Ediacaran.
45 points by EndXA | 2 comments
Natural History Museum news article from 2021 on research showing the extinct Haast's eagle of New Zealand hunted moa in a way unlike any other bird of prey.
12 points by surprisetalk | 0 comments
SV-POW! blog post surveying speculative-biology depictions of sauropods, prompted by Mark Witton's upcoming book Dinosaurs Evolved about a world without the K-Pg extinction.
137 points by bryanrasmussen | 12 comments
Open-access Nature paper describing a 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale fossil necropolis discovered in the Diamantina Zone of the Indian Ocean.
452 points by akkartik | 53 comments
A Crooked Timber essay by Doug Muir on early armored cephalopods like Plectronoceras and the evolutionary arrival of jawed predators with lips.
322 points by janandonly | 220 comments
Smithsonian Smart News article from 2013 about Prototaxites, giant 24-foot fungal spires that dotted Earth's landscape before trees took over.
646 points by oboes | 86 comments
Wikipedia user page of Junnn11, an arthropod enthusiast who creates paleontological reconstruction illustrations of extinct arthropods.