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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Teen Pachycephalosaur Butts Into Fossil Record <a href="https://news.ncsu.edu/2025/09/teen-pachycephalosaur-butts-into-fossil-record/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.ncsu.edu/2025/09/teen-pachycephalosaur-butts-into-fossil-record/</a>A domed <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/pachycephalosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pachycephalosaur</a> from the early <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Mongolia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mongolia</a>: Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig et al. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09213-6" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09213-6</a>"The <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fossil</a> represents a <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/NewSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NewSpecies</a> of pachycephalosaur and is both the oldest and most complete skeleton of this dinosaur group found to date... Zavacephale rinpoche lived around 108 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous period in what is now Mongolia’s Gobi Desert."

Bob Nicholls ArtMy 25 years of palaeoart chronology...Zooms into my 2025 painting of the Otway Basin, Australia, during the late Albian. It was the second of two artworks I created for Vera Korasidis and Barbara Wagstaff (Uni of Melbourne): for the paper "Cool-temperate riparian floras in the Early Cretaceous rift valley of Victoria, Australia."<a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Painting</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PaleoArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PalaeoArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciComm</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Illustration</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dinosaurs</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Paleontology</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/WildlifeArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WildlifeArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PaleoPlants</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PalaeoPlants</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleobotany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Paleobotany</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Striking sail may have helped <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dinosaurs</a> find mates <a href="https://www.nhm.ac.uk/press-office/press-releases/-striking-sail--may-have-helped-dinosaurs-find-mates--new-fossil.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nhm.ac.uk/press-office/press-releases/-striking-sail--may-have-helped-dinosaurs-find-mates--new-fossil.html</a> paper: <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70034" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70034</a> "A new iguanodontian <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/dinosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dinosaur</a> with a dramatic sail along its back and tail has been identified from <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fossils</a> found on the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/IsleOfWight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IsleOfWight</a> in England... elongation of neural spines in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/iguanodontians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#iguanodontians</a> began in the Late <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Jurassic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Jurassic</a>, before becoming a relatively common feature during the Early <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a>."

Bob Nicholls ArtMy 25 years of palaeoart chronology...Zooms into Garden of the Iguanodon, an artwork from my section in Mesozoic Art II, edited by Steve White and Darren Naish, published by Bloomsbury Publishing UK.Mesozoic Art II comes out this September, pre-order here: <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mesozoic-art-ii-9781399412209/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mesozoic-art-ii-9781399412209/</a><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Art</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Painting</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PaleoArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PalaeoArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciComm</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Illustration</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dinosaurs</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Birds</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Pterosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pterosaurs</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Reptiles</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/MarineReptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MarineReptiles</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Palaeontology</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Paleontology</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/MesozoicArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MesozoicArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Iguanodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Iguanodon</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/JurassicWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JurassicWorld</a>

Bob Nicholls ArtMy 25 years of palaeoart chronology...Here's another artwork from my section in Mesozoic Art II, edited by Steve White and Darren Naish, published by Bloomsbury Publishing UK.Mesozoic Art II comes out this September, pre-order here: <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mesozoic-art-ii-9781399412209/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mesozoic-art-ii-9781399412209/</a><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Art</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Painting</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PaleoArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PalaeoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PalaeoArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciComm</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Illustration</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dinosaurs</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Birds</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Pterosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pterosaurs</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Reptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Reptiles</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/MarineReptiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MarineReptiles</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Palaeontology</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Paleontology</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/MesozoicArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MesozoicArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Iguanodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Iguanodon</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/JurassicWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JurassicWorld</a>

Marcus Brandel🐊 A special back-to-our-roots <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Minnesota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Minnesota</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FossilFriday</a> 🐴🐟🐘🦥🐪Terminonaris robusta (originally classified as Teleorhinus). A partial snout of Terminonaris was excavated in 1969 at the Hill Annex Mine - the same site where the claw of a dromaeosaur was found in 2015.The excerpt here was published in a 1983 issue of Minnesota Conservation Volunteer. Vintage paleoart by Ken Sander.<a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Crocodile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Crocodile</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Terminonarusrobusta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Terminonarusrobusta</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Palaeontology</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/CitizenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CitizenScience</a>More <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/LostBones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LostBones</a> <a href="https://medium.com/@dbrake40" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@dbrake40</a>

J of Systematics and Evolution<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Spiders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Spiders</a> have always been perfect!🕷️ Wang et al. find that new mid-<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> macrothelids had a similar living mode to extant spp., with similar retreat construction <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/behavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#behavior</a>, <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/habitat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#habitat</a> preference, and <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/mating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mating</a> position. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13139" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13139</a> @WileyEcolEvol <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#evolution</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/JSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JSE</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FossilFriday</a>

Global MuseumRulers of the sea: 100 million years ago squids were kings.Researchers uncovered 263 fossilized squid beaks, including about 40 different species that had never been seen before<a href="https://www.jpost.com/science/article-859316" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.jpost.com/science/article-859316</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/globalmuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#globalmuseum</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fossils</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/squid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#squid</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a>

truceburner :toad:These ammonite aptychi fragments from the late Cretaceous of central Texas may be undescribed to date. This is my collection from Travis County. <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Paleontology</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cretaceous</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ammonite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ammonite</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Birds nested alongside <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dinosaurs</a> in the Arctic: <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fossil</a> find pushes polar nesting record back by 25 million years <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-05-birds-dinosaurs-arctic-fossil-polar.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-05-birds-dinosaurs-arctic-fossil-polar.html</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/paleoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#paleoart</a> by <a href="https://sauropods.win/@serpenillus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@serpenillus</a> Arctic bird nesting traces back to the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt5189" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt5189</a>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Birds</a> have existed for 150 million years. For half of the time, they have been nesting in the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arctic</a>."

Bob Nicholls ArtHere is my recent painting of the Otway Basin, Australia, during the late Albian. It is the second of two artworks I created for Vera Korasidis and Barbara Wagstaff, at The University of Melbourne. They both took weeks to create, for this paper: <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2025.2489614?fbclid=IwY2xjawKRPbpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFrSHpaVklhVnNjOGVLRVlxAR70NFx_Cd7x96VYZULSPsGbqjXloyQx83bBsY2CGbXtoPvaYP8Asmc3LRmC7A_aem_mY098CXYMG0h8LI8Ww2DxQ#abstract" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2025.2489614?fbclid=IwY2xjawKRPbpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFrSHpaVklhVnNjOGVLRVlxAR70NFx_Cd7x96VYZULSPsGbqjXloyQx83bBsY2CGbXtoPvaYP8Asmc3LRmC7A_aem_mY098CXYMG0h8LI8Ww2DxQ#abstract</a>. Please enjoy the details, they required a lot of work!<a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Art</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Painting</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PaleoArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciComm</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Illustration</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dinosaurs</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Palaeontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Palaeontology</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Paleontology</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Megaraptor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Megaraptor</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/WildlifeArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WildlifeArt</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/PaleoPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PaleoPlants</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Paleobotany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Paleobotany</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Fossil of a new <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/mammal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mammal</a> species from the age of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dinosaurs</a> discovered in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Mongolia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mongolia</a>'s Gobi desert <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-04-fossil-mammal-species-age-dinosaurs.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-04-fossil-mammal-species-age-dinosaurs.html</a>New Late <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> zhelestid mammal from the Bayanshiree Formation, Mongolia <a href="https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012132024.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012132024.html</a> "The suggested age corresponds to the early spread of flowering plants in terrestrial ecosystems. The robust nature of the molars resembles those of seed- and fruit-eating <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/mammals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mammals</a>"

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Footprints of tail-clubbed armored <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dinosaurs</a> found for the first time <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-04-footprints-tail-clubbed-armored-dinosaurs.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-04-footprints-tail-clubbed-armored-dinosaurs.html</a> paper by Victoria Arbour et al.: <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.2451319" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.2451319</a>"The tracks date back to the middle of the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> period, about 100 to 94 million years ago. No bones from <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ankylosaurids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ankylosaurids</a> have been found in North America from about 100 to 84 million years ago... These footprints show that tail-clubbed ankylosaurs were alive and well in North America during this gap in the skeletal fossil record."

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Mammals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mammals</a> were adapting from life in the trees to living on the ground before dinosaur-killing asteroid <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-04-mammals-life-trees-ground-dinosaur.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-04-mammals-life-trees-ground-dinosaur.html</a>Down to earth: therian mammals became more terrestrial towards the end of the Cretaceous <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pala.70004" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pala.70004</a>"plant life changed toward the end of the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a>, with flowering <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plants</a> creating more diverse habitats on the ground... The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#evolution</a> than any influence from <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dinosaurs</a>"

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Deep-sea fish study reveals evolutionary marvels in Earth's hadal zone <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-03-deep-sea-fish-reveals-evolutionary.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-03-deep-sea-fish-reveals-evolutionary.html</a><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Evolution</a> and genetic adaptation of fishes to the deep sea <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867425000315" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867425000315</a>"they confirmed a century-old hypothesis about deep-sea <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fish</a> evolution involving two distinct pathways. 'Ancient survivors' colonized the deep sea before the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> mass <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extinction</a>, while 'new immigrants' account for the majority of modern <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/DeepSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DeepSea</a> species that emerged after the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MassExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MassExtinction</a>."

Speckdäne<a href="https://nrw.social/tags/idw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#idw</a> Earth's Orbital Rhythms Link Timing of Giant <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Eruptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eruptions</a> and <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a>An international team of scientists has synchronized key <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climate</a> records from the <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Atlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Atlantic</a> and <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Pacific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pacific</a> Oceans to unravel the sequence of events during the last million years before the extinction of the <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dinosaurs</a> at the <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a>/#Paleogene boundary. <a href="https://idw-online.de/en/news848593" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://idw-online.de/en/news848593</a>German: <a href="https://idw-online.de/de/news848592" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://idw-online.de/de/news848592</a>

Palaeontologia ElectronicaThis new study turns over a new leaf in the <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fossil</a> record of the <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> of Northern Asia! Explore the morphological diversity and distribution of the <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/Menispermites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Menispermites</a>, a genus of fossil leaves comprised of many short-lived species with limited ranges.Image: Figure 5 from the paper. Several species of the genus Menispermites from Northern AsiaAuthors: Anastasia A Zolina, Lina B Golovneva, and Alexander A GrabovskiyFull <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> Paper: <a href="https://doi.org/10.26879/1441" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.26879/1441</a>

Bytes EuropePaleontologists Find World’s Oldest Known Megaraptorid, Australia’s First Carcharodontosaur Fossils <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/760096/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.byteseu.com/760096/</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Carcharodontosauria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Carcharodontosauria</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Dinosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dinosaur</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EumerallaFormation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EumerallaFormation</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fossil</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Gondwana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gondwana</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Megaraptoridae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Megaraptoridae</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/StrzeleckiGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StrzeleckiGroup</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Theropod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Theropod</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Victoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Victoria</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Cretaceous <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fossil</a> from <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Antarctica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Antarctica</a> reveals earliest modern bird <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-02-cretaceous-fossil-antarctica-reveals-earliest.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-02-cretaceous-fossil-antarctica-reveals-earliest.html</a><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> Antarctic bird skull elucidates early avian ecological diversity <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08390-0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08390-0</a>"Few <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#birds</a> are as likely to start as many arguments among <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/paleontologists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#paleontologists</a> as <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Vegavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vegavis</a>. 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?"

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/NewSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NewSpecies</a> of Ornithomimidae <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dinosaurs</a> identified in Mexico <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-02-genus-species-ornithomimidae-dinosaur-family.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-02-genus-species-ornithomimidae-dinosaur-family.html</a>A long-handed new ornithomimid dinosaur from the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Campanian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Campanian</a> (Upper <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a>) Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mexico</a>: Claudia Inés Serrano-Brañas et al. <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667125000102" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667125000102</a> "it had long hands with a palm longer than its entire upper arm... their purpose was to allow the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/dinosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dinosaur</a> to reach into shrubs, trees or bushes to pull branches, twigs into its mouth"

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