Tag: palentology

  • Sediment-Bound Fossil Specimens Suggest Effects of Ocean Acidification

    Palentologists have discovered micrometer-scale fossils of plankton from the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a period of rapid ocean warming and acidification that occurred 55 million years ago, during the Paleogene Period. The tiny plankton will allow researchers to study how the marine organisms coped with the rising acidity of the oceans. Read more @ SciTechDaily

  • 3D Renderings of Carboniferous Period Insects

    Two 305-million-year-old insect nymphs were scanned in high resolution in order to construct three-dimensional portraits. The two insects were scanned using fossils from the Carboniferous Period, which lasted from 359.2 Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, at 299 Ma Read more @ SciTechDaily

  • 230 Million Year Old Arthropods Found Preserved in Amber

    Arthropods from the Triassic period have been discovered preserved in amber. They are 100 million years older than previous amber inclusions. The two mites and one fly were found in millimeter-scale droplets of amber from northeastern Italy. Read more @ SciTechDaily

  • Bushy-Tailed Fossilized Theropod Could Mean that Most Dinosaurs Had Feathers

    A particularly well-preserved bushy-tailed fossilized theropod could imply that most of dinosaurs actually had feathers. The dinosaur, named Sciurumimus albersdoerferi lived 150 million years ago, during the Jurassic period of the Mesozoic era, in what is now Germany. Read more @ SciTechDaily

  • Primeval S05E03 (ITV)

    Primeval is a British science fiction drama television program produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV. The first episode was broadcast on 10th February 2007, and was renewed for a second series by ITV, which started on 12th January 2008. The series follows a team of scientists who investigate anomalies in time and deal with the…

  • Primeval S05E02 (ITV)

    Primeval is a British science fiction drama television program produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV. The first episode was broadcast on 10th February 2007, and was renewed for a second series by ITV, which started on 12th January 2008. The series follows a team of scientists who investigate anomalies in time and deal with the…

  • Primeval S05E01 (ITV)

    Primeval is a British science fiction drama television program produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV. The first episode was broadcast on 10th February 2007, and was renewed for a second series by ITV, which started on 12th January 2008. The series follows a team of scientists who investigate anomalies in time and deal with the…

  • Primeval S04E07 (ITV)

    Primeval is a British science fiction drama television program produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV. The first episode was broadcast on 10th February 2007, and was renewed for a second series by ITV, which started on 12th January 2008. The series follows a team of scientists who investigate anomalies in time and deal with the…

  • Primeval S04E06 (ITV)

    Primeval is a British science fiction drama television program produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV. The first episode was broadcast on 10th February 2007, and was renewed for a second series by ITV, which started on 12th January 2008. The series follows a team of scientists who investigate anomalies in time and deal with the…

  • Primeval S04E05 (ITV)

    Primeval is a British science fiction drama television program produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV. The first episode was broadcast on 10th February 2007, and was renewed for a second series by ITV, which started on 12th January 2008. The series follows a team of scientists who investigate anomalies in time and deal with the…