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On brains and the evolution of flight.

Water colour by the Reverend G. E. Howman (From Martill 2015)

Lagerpetids were small to medium-sized (less than 1 m long), cursorial, non-volant reptiles that lived during the Middle to Upper Triassic periods in Argentina, Brazil, Madagascar, and North America. The recognition of lagerpetids as the sister taxon to ...

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Forgotten women of paleontology: Estella Bergere Leopold.

Estella Leopold in 1938. Image credit: The Aldo Leopold Foundation

Paleoecological records suggest that the transition to agriculture marked a pivotal turning point in the environmental history of our planet. Tropical forests have been reduced by agricultural expansion associated with growing human populations, which has triggered soil loss du...

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Halloween special XIII: Poe, Cuvier, and memento mori

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” This quote from the poem The Raven illustrates the profound and dramatic lyricism of one of the...

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Once upon a time in New Mexico

The San Juan Basin, New Mexico. Photo credit: Daniel J. Peppe

Asteroids, as Neil deGrasse Tyson explains, are ancient remnants from our early solar system, wandering through space, potential bearers of life’s ingredients or agents of apocalyptic death.
In 1980, in a landmark lecture, U.S. ph...

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Meet Huayracursor jaguensis, an early sauropodomorph from Argentina.

Huayracursor jaguensis. Image credit: Jorge Blanco

Dinosaurs likely originated in the Middle Triassic, but the earliest unambiguous dinosaur specimens are from the middle-late Carnian age, primarily in the Southern Hemisphere, with potential evidence in North America. This gap highlights a significant uncertainty in the geological and temporal c...

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