Smallest realized dinosaur found preserved in amber

Everybody used to consider dinosaurs as giant lizards, yet researchers presently believe these animals were significantly more bird-like, and some of them were little. A new species of dinosaur has been found in Myanmar caught in a block of fossilized amber. This 99-million-year-old specimen was about the size of a bee hummingbird, making it the…

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A ‘social network’ may have associated stable sea animals

Stationary populaces of Earth’s soonest creatures may have been associated with long filaments in a 500 million-year-old example of a social network, researchers say. The filaments were found in fossils of marine animals called rangeomorphs in eastern Newfoundland, as indicated by a report published in the journal Current Biology. Rangeomorphs lived somewhere in the range…

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Infant giant planet found 330 light-years apart

Most planets found by astronomers are “old” – they’re fully-formed after a great many years arranging elements around their star. In any case, scientists simply found an infant giant exoplanet orbiting a youthful star only 330 light-years from Earth, making it the nearest of its sort to everyone. The planet is known as 2MASS 1155-7919…

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Researchers discover oldest-known fossilized digestive tract at 550 million years of age

A 550 million-year-old fossilized digestive tract found in the Nevada desert could be a key find in understanding the early history of creatures on Earth. Over a half-billion years prior, life on Earth was involved in simple ocean organisms unlike anything living in the present oceans. At that point, starting around 540 million years prior,…

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