Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new dinosaur species may be the closest known relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, a new study says. A new study published in Scientific Reports reshapes
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The story of Ekgmowechashala, the final primate to inhabit North America before Homo sapiens or Clovis people, reads like a spaghetti western:
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – An extremely rare collection of 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France are closely related to living species, unlike older fossils of their
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusk animals that are now an iconic fossil group often collected by amateurs. Over 350
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new type of analysis of a spectacular 120-million-year-old fossil skeleton of the extinct early bird Jeholornis from northeastern China has revealed
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Fossils reveal how ancient birds molted their feathers. Every bird you’ve ever seen— every robin, every pigeon, every penguin at the zoo— is
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Extinct dwarf hippos that once roamed Madagascar lived in forests rather than open grasslands preferred by common hippos on mainland Africa, researchers
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species’ “last gasp” during a period when Earth’s warming climate forced massive changes
Conny Waters – MessageToEagle.com – Even without body parts that allowed for movement, new research shows—for the first time—that some of Earth’s earliest animals managed to be picky about
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The diverse swimming techniques of the ancient reptiles that ruled the Mesozoic seas have been revealed for the first time by scientists
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Dinosaurs as big as buses or five-story buildings would not be possible if their bones were dense and heavy like ours. Like
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Simon Fraser University scientists say their research on the latest fossil find near Princeton, B.C., is raising questions about how the dispersal
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – About 360 million years ago, in the shallow subtropical waters above what is now the city of Cleveland, an armor-plated fish many
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com –More than 100 years ago, Charles Doolittle Walcott from the Smithsonian Institution was asked to examine strange star-shaped fossils with lobes hailing from
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A team of researchers have now solved a 150-year-old mystery about aetosaurs -reptiles that died out about 204 million years ago, at
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Fossil bones from two newly described penguin species, one of them thought to be the largest penguin to ever live—weighing more than
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers made an interesting discovery of fossils dating back 250.8 million years near the Guizhou region of China. The discovery suggests that
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A scan of the skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, has revealed the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain. The fossil
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An unusual new species of pterosaur has been identified, which had over 400 teeth that looked like the prongs of a nit
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A study led by The University of Texas at Austin is providing a glimpse into dinosaur and bird diversity in Patagonia during
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – New research has uncovered that pollen preserved in 250 million year old rocks contain compounds that function like sunscreen, these are produced
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – If you thought Australia was home to only one ancient “giant wombat,” think again. While the Diprotodon—the extinct megafauna species that is
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Scratches on dinosaur teeth could reveal what they really ate. For the first time, dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has been used
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Fossilized fragments of a skeleton, hidden within a rock the size of a grapefruit, have helped upend one of the longest-standing assumptions