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Mystery for paleontologists: Why giant prehistoric salmon needed such big teeth
(ORDO NEWS) — About 10 million years ago, giant salmon splashed in the coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean, reaching a length of three meters and weighing about 170 kilograms. Their mouth was filled with sharp and long three-centimeter teeth. It was these teeth that helped California paleontologists find out how these fish lived. Most likely long teeth served as a filter. Prehistoric salmon, like their modern relatives, fed on…
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Paleontologists have discovered who lived in tubes half a billion years ago
(ORDO NEWS) — The owners of the very first skeletons on Earth lived in peculiar tubes, of which quite a lot has been described. At the same time, little is known about these animals themselves – now this gap has been filled by soft tissue imprints of Gangtoucunia aspera, a representative of the cnidarian type from the Cambrian period. Approximately 540 million years ago, the evolution of life on Earth…
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Paleontologists have discovered the oldest dinosaur with a cold
(ORDO NEWS) — A respiratory tract infection invaded the bones of an ancient sauropod, preserving evidence of a respiratory disease in an animal that lived in the late Jurassic. Animals that existed in the distant eras of the past suffered from diseases no less than modern ones. So, according to the fossil of a centrosaurus over 75 million years old, he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. Previously, the oldest such example…
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Paleontologists have described an abnormally giant dinosaur that roamed Spain 70 million years ago
(ORDO NEWS) — Paleontologists have described a new species of dinosaur-titanosaurus Abditosaurus kuehnei. His remains were found in the Pyrenees, on a mountain range on the border between Spain and France. This species is considered to be the largest titanosaur species found in the region. Herbivore giant weighed 14 tons It is believed that before the asteroid impact, when Europe was a collection of scattered islands, the titanosaurs of the…
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Paleontologists have denied the discovery of a fossil believed to be the missing link between lizards and the first snakes
(ORDO NEWS) — Filling the links of the evolutionary chain with the fossil remains of the “four-legged snake” connecting raptors and early snakes would be a dream come true for paleontologists.But a specimen previously thought to be suitable is not the missing piece of the puzzle , says a new study by the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology led by University of Alberta paleontologist Michael Caldwell. “It has long been known…