Tag: Paleontology/Geobiology
April 3, 2024
A Jurassic Texas First
A team led by scientists at the Jackson School of Geosciences has discovered the first known Jurassic vertebrate fossils in Texas. The bone fragments are…
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Skull of Bizarre Worm- Lizard is Analyzed for First Time
Amphisbaenians are the strangest creatures you’ve never heard of. Like worms with vertebrae, scales, a large central tooth and sometimes small forearms, these reptiles…
Read MoreMarch 18, 2024
Tanks of the Triassic: New Crocodile Ancestor Identified
Dinosaurs get all the glory. But aetosaurs, a heavily armored cousin of modern crocodiles, ruled the world before dinosaurs did. These tanks of the Triassic…
Read MoreMarch 6, 2024
Thousands of CT-Scans from UT Austin Now Part of Online Archive
Natural history museums have entered a new stage of scientific discovery and accessibility with the completion of openVertebrate (oVert), a free online archive of 3D…
Read MoreFebruary 12, 2024
Bizarre Worm-Lizard’s Secrets Revealed in CT Scans
Amphisbaenians are strange creatures. Like worms with vertebrae, scales, a large central tooth and sometimes small forearms, these reptiles live underground, burrowing tunnels and preying…
Read MoreJune 27, 2023
Newly Discovered Jurassic Fossils Are a Texas First
A team led by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has filled a major gap in the state’s fossil record – describing the…
Read MoreMay 2, 2023
“Golden” Fossils Reveal Origins of Exceptional Preservation
All that glitters is not gold, or even fool’s gold in the case of fossils. A recent study by scientists at The University of Texas…
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Beaver Fossil Named After Buc-ee’s
A new species of ancient beaver that was rediscovered by researchers in The University of Texas at Austin’s fossil collections has been named after Buc-ee’s,…
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This Graduate Visualizes the Past to Create His Future
When Michael Chiappone hikes through a Texas landscape, he imagines vegetation greening to include conifers and ferns and stars shifting to a pattern not seen in the night sky…
Read MoreJanuary 26, 2022
Fossil Snail Shells Offer New Tool for Determining Ancient Ocean Chemistry
A collection of fossil shells from marine snails and clams is challenging a theory that says the world’s deadliest mass extinction was accompanied by severe…
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