Loon-like waterfowl from dinosaur-era Antarctica is oldest 'modern' bird
Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous waters off Antarctica. Thanks to a nearly complete fossil skull, scientists now have identified this waterfowl as the oldest-known member of the lineage spanning all birds alive today.
For many years, it was widely believed that fossils no longer contained any original organic molecules as the fossilization ...
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Non-bird dinosaurs lived between about 245 and 66 million years ago, in a time known as the Mesozoic Era. This was many millions of years before the first modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared.
In Drumheller, Alta., the badlands take us back in time. Exposed layers of rock show us what Canada was like during the Mesozoic era, a pivotal time in Earth’s history. The last 79 million years ...
Discoveries there are casting light on life during the Mesozoic, specifically 130 million to 110 million years ago—a time distinguished by the diversification of dinosaurs, mammals, birds ...
The Cretaceous is a geological period that began 145 million years ago and ended 66 million years ago. It is the last period in the Mesozoic Era. It comes after the Jurassic Period and before the ...
The University of Liverpool has uncovered strong evidence that organic molecules, including collagen, can be preserved in Mesozoic fossils, chall ...
She received her PhD studying Mesozoic birds at the University of Southern California. Jasmina Wiemann is a Trimble & Barr Postdoctoral Scholar studying the intersection of organic chemistry ...
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