Latest articles by Pete Buchholz

fossils
over 3 years ago by Pete Buchholz

Meat-eating dinosaurs had sensitive snouts

Micro-CT scanning showed that meat-eating dinosaurs, known as theropods, had numerous pits on their jaws which are thought to be passages for nerves or blood vessels. Until now, this feature had received little-detailed attention except in semi-aquatic spinosaurs and giant tyrannosaurs.
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fossils
over 3 years ago by Pete Buchholz

Baby bird found in 99-million-year-old amber

A nugget of amber from Myanmar has been found with a nearly complete baby bird inside. The specimen is one of the several recently discovered amber nuggets with entombed body parts of feathered dinosaurs.
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fossils
almost 4 years ago by Pete Buchholz

Armored dinosaur named for Ghostbusters monster Zuul

This Late Cretaceous armored dinosaur is known from an amazingly preserved specimen that shows fossilized skin tissue.
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fossils
almost 4 years ago by Pete Buchholz

Pachyrhinosaurus the stump-nosed horned dinosaur

This oddball of the horned dinosaur family had a lumpy mass of bone where Triceratops flaunted its famous triple horns.
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humans
almost 4 years ago by Pete Buchholz

Humans may have been in the Americas over 100,000 years earlier than thought

Extensive archaeological and anthropological data suggest that the first humans entered the Americas about 15,000 years ago from Asia to Alaska. A 130,000-year-old mastodon skeleton discovered in suburban San Diego shows signs of butchery only associated with ancient humans.
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