Topic: Paleontology
4-legged animals emerged earlier than thought
AP News
<div id="subtitle">Fossil footprints show 4-legged animals conquered land millions of years earlier than thought</div><div><p>The water-dwelling ancestors of modern-day mammals, reptiles and birds emerged onto land millions of years earlier than previously believed, researchers reported.</p ...
Fish out of water: When did animals move to land?
AFP Global Edition
<div><p>Fossilised footprints, found in a Polish quarry, of an enigmatic, long-extinct creature have prompted palaeontologists to reopen the file of how life in the sea moved to the land.</p><p>A key theory in evolutionary biology is that tetrapods ...
New fossils shed light on evolution of dinosaurs
AP News
<div id="subtitle">Researchers say new fossils shed light on development of earliest dinosaurs</div><div><p>Newly described dinosaur fossils from New Mexico are helping scientists better understand the early development of these ancient creatures. The 6-to-12 foot-long, meat-eating creature, Tawa ...
New Dino
AP News
This undated handout artist rendering provided by the National Science Foundation shows the newly discovered Triassic, carnivorous dinosaur, Tawa hallae. Newly described dinosaur fossils from New Mexico are helping scientists better understand the early development of these ancient creatures. The six-to-12 foot long, meat-eating creature, Tawa hallae, is described in ...
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