University of Manchester - Archive (palaeontology)
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2023
20
April
2023
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14:43
Europe/London
This June the Wyoming Dinosaur Center will host an exhilarating experience for dinosaur fans with the first-ever ‘Jurassic Fest – Passion for the Past’ event.
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16
February
2023
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08:00
Europe/London
An almost metre-long footprint made by a giant, meat-eating theropod dinosaur from the Jurassic Period represents the largest of its kind ever found in Yorkshire.
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2022
02
November
2022
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08:30
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Scientists find copies of lost fossil destroyed in WWII hiding in a US museum.
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29
July
2022
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08:00
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The discovery of an exceptional prehistoric site containing the remains of animals that lived in a tropical sea has been made in a farmer’s field in Gloucestershire.
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10
May
2022
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13:00
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The fossilised remains of Chile’s first complete ichthyosaur have been unearthed from a melting glacier deep in the Patagonia area of the South American country.
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14
April
2022
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12:06
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A fragment of the asteroid that hit the Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs, and the first ever fossilised remains of a dinosaur killed by the asteroid impact, are thought to be amongst the latest finds unearthed by ...
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07
February
2022
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15:28
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University of Manchester research fellow David Legg, in collaboration with a team of international scientists from China, Switzerland, and Sweden, has today announced a new fossil that reveals the origin of gills in arthropods....
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2021
08
December
2021
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10:45
Europe/London
A new study published today reconstructs the time of year for the Chicxulub impact, an event that is widely accepted as a major cause behind the mass-extinction that wiped dinosaurs from the planet.
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13
May
2021
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09:00
Europe/London
An incredible fossil discovery of two fighting mammoths has been highlighted for the first time in a new book on prehistoric behaviour.
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2020
27
August
2020
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16:00
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An incredibly rare dinosaur embryo discovered perfectly preserved inside its egg has shown scientists new details of the development and appearance of sauropods which lived 80 million years ago.
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2019
18
December
2019
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08:00
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New fossil data show that our fishy ancestors may have risen to dominance by becoming predators of their ancient jawless cousins.
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11
December
2019
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16:30
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A new scientific study led by researchers at The University of Manchester has re-examined a series of fossil skulls from the UK, providing new insights into two species of extinct marine reptiles.
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10
July
2019
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12:17
Europe/London
A team of palaeontologists from the UK and US have identified a one of a kind 150 million year old dinosaur skeleton. The specimen has been classified as a new species to science with the discovery also raising questions about the evolution of avian ...
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21
May
2019
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10:06
Europe/London
The evolutionary use of colour for mammal’s survival in the wild is evident from, red foxes, to zebras. Today an international team, led by researchers from The University of Manchester, publish research revealing the evidence of colourful pigments f...
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01
April
2019
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10:24
Europe/London
Dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ago. Now scientists have found extraordinary evidence which documents the colossal asteroid impact event.
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25
March
2019
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14:29
Europe/London
Scientists at The University of Manchester have joined forces with a major US Museum and European partners to explore an extraordinary Jurassic dinosaur site in the badlands of Wyoming, USA.
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21
January
2019
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20:00
Europe/London
An international team of palaeontologists, including researchers from The University of Manchester, have uncovered evolutionary secrets hidden in the 100-million-year-old fossil of a hagfish – a slimy, eel-like scavenger that lived in an ancient ocea...
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08
January
2019
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12:00
Europe/London
A nearly metre-long skull of a giant fossil marine ichthyosaur found in a farmer’s field more than 60 years ago has been studied for the first time.
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2018
25
October
2018
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01:00
Europe/London
Known as the ‘Icon of Evolution’ and ‘the missing link’ between dinosaurs and birds, Archaeopteryx has become one of the most famous fossil discoveries in Palaeontology.
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24
October
2018
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15:13
Europe/London
Dinosaurs could thrive and survive in Earth’s prehistoric, oxygen-thin atmosphere due to having lungs like birds a new study has found.
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31
July
2018
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09:14
Europe/London
Scientists have used powerful X-rays to peer inside the skeletons of some of our oldest vertebrate relatives, solving a 160-year-old mystery about the origin of our skeletons.
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09
April
2018
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19:01
Europe/London
The 205 million-year-old jaw bone of a prehistoric reptile belongs to ‘one of the largest animals ever’ say a group of international palaeontologists.
The new discovery has also solved a 150 year old mystery of supposed ‘dinosaur bones’ from the U...
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05
April
2018
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06:01
Europe/London
Palaeontologists have discovered part of the skeleton of a 180 million-year-old pregnant ichthyosaur with the remains of between six and eight tiny embryos between its ribs.
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14
March
2018
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09:00
Europe/London
A comprehensive new study looking at variations in Ichthyosaurus, a common British Jurassic ichthyosaur (sea-going reptile) also known as ‘Sea Dragons’, has provided important information into recognizing new fossil species.
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05
March
2018
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10:00
Europe/London
The tiny fossil of a prehistoric baby bird is helping scientists understand how early avians came into the world in the Age of Dinosaurs.
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05
February
2018
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16:01
Europe/London
The common traits of spiders are well known to everyone – they have eight legs, multiple eyes and can spin webs – but a recent fossil discovery and new research now shows that spiders once had long 'whip-like' tails.
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01
February
2018
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07:01
Europe/London
A rare 200 million-year-old ichthyosaur specimen has been discovered in a private collection 22 years after it was originally found.
The fossil is only the second example of Wahlisaurus massarae, a new species of ichthyosaur discovered by The Univ...
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05
January
2018
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16:41
Europe/London
Sea Dragon, you ask? It sounds as if David Attenborough has decided to change things up a bit and enter the world of Game of Thrones. But, not quite. Attenborough and the Sea Dragon – to be screened on January 7 – is a new, one-off BBC documentary pr...
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2017
25
October
2017
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19:01
Europe/London
An international team of scientists has discovered the first evidence that a huge carnivorous dinosaur roamed southern Africa 200 million year ago.
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10
October
2017
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07:00
Europe/London
An ichthyosaur first discovered in the 1970s but then dismissed and consigned to museum storerooms across the country has been re-examined and found to be a new species.
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