Between 1939 and 1941, during the Great Depression, the WPA collaborated with the University of Texas Bureau of Economic ...

Researchers found the right side of the 50-million-year-old amphisbaenian’s upper jaw and the left side of its lower jaw, according to the study, but while it clearly belonged to this odd reptilian ...

Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur - an ancient flying reptile - with a wing span of about 7 feet (2 meters), a bony crest on front of its snout and a ...

Nov. 8, 2024 — Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered 'hominin' group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some ... DNA Evidence Rewrites ...

Interestingly enough, much of the collection housed at the Texas Vertebrate Paleontology Collections at the Jackson School Museum of Earth History are larger specimens, like tusks and skulls. This is ...

This is the third six-year term the Midland Republican will serve on the commission. Craddick campaigned largely by pointing to the growth of the Texas fossil fuel industry during her tenure, and ...

The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles. Paleontologists debate whether silesaurids were true dinosaurs or possibly a precursor to the creatures that once ...

What wasn’t normal on that spring day was a three-inch-long fecal fossil, what researchers call ... Osborne thought for a minute. Texas offered plentiful opportunities for a great observer.

The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists’ understanding of this still-mysterious group of prehistoric reptiles Alexa Robles ...

They don't look alike, and they aren't biologically related, but part of their evolutionary history bears a striking resemblance: these organisms are referred to as "living fossils". In other ...

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