WebSightings from 2024
A wealth of articles and news reports of interest to MGS members appears
on the web every day. As a service to our membership and others interested in paleontology and geology, links to some
of these articles and news reports appearing in 2024 will be gathered here. On occasion, a particularly
interesting post from a blog will be included.
These links are arranged by publication date, with the latest at the top.
WebSightings from 2023 can be accessed here.
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- Carbonate Hardgrounds at Wooster, Mark Wilson,
Wooster Geologists: A World to Explore, blog of the Department of Geology, College of Wooster, September 25, 2024.
- New Cynodont Fossil Discoveries
Are Rewriting Our Understanding of Mammal Evolution, Sci News, September 25, 2024.
- Researchers Uncover
Remains of Ice Age Mastodons in Peru, Reuters, September 23, 2024.
- Rugged Falkland Landscape Was Once
a Lush Rainforest, University of Southhampton, Science Daily, September 18, 2024.
- 'Entire Ecosystem' of Fossils
8.7M Years Old Found Under Los Angeles High School, Maya Yang, The Guardian, September 15, 2024.
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Stunning Paleontologists: 75-Million-Year-Old Sauropod Dinosaur Discovered in Spain, Faculty of Sciences University of Lisbon, Sci Tech Daily,
September 8, 2024.
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Experience: We Discovered a Rare T rex Fossil, Jessin Fisher, as told to Heather Main, The Guardian, September 6, 2024.
- 'Some Pterosaurs Would Flap,
Others Would Soar' - New Study Confirms Flight Capability of These Giants of the Skies. Taylor & Francis, Phys.Org, September 6, 2024.
- Earthquake-Induced Piezoelectricity Plays
Key Role in Formation of Large Gold Nuggets: Study, Sci News, September 2. 2024.
- This Spiky Fossil Shows What
Early Mollusks Looked Like, Erin Garcia de Jesus, Science News, August 16, 2024.
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An Asteroid Wiped Out the Dinosaurs, Not a Comet, New Study Finds, Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, August 15, 2024.
- Spotted in a Mississippi Creek: The State's
First Mammoth Tusk, Jiselle Lee, Washington Post, August 14, 2024.
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Giant Fossil Discovery in Namibia Challenges Long-Held Evolutionary Theories, University of The Witwatersrand, Sci Tech Daily, August 14, 2024.
- 150-Million-Year-Old Fossil Fills
Important Gap in Evolution of Pterosaurs, Enrico de Lazaro, Sci News, August 1, 2024.
- 99-Million-Year-Old Burmese Amber Reveals
Oldest Known Skink, Natali Anderson, SciNews, July 22, 2024.
- 34-Million-Year-Old
Snake Discovered in Wyoming Changes Our Understanding of Evolution, University of Alberta, SciTechDaily, July 21, 2024.
- Largest, Most
Intact Stegosaurus Fossil Ever Found Sells for $44.6 Million, Nadeem Badshah, The Guardian, July 17, 2024.
- Australian Amber Has Revealed 'Living Fossils'
Traced Back to Gondwana 42 Million Years Ago, Maria Blake and Jeffrey Stilwell, Phys.Org, July 10, 2024.
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The Fossil Finder: One Man's Lifelong Search for Fragments of Britain's Jurassic Past - Photo Essay, Lisa Bachelor, The Guardian, July 2, 2024.
- Stunning Trilobite Fossils Include Soft Tissues
Never Seen Before, Lucas Van Wyk Joel, Science News, June 27, 2024.
- The Dueling Dinosaurs:
Famous Fossils in an Open Lab, Ben, Extinct Monsters blog, June 16, 2024.
- Fossils of
'Sea Phantom' Flying Reptile Unearthed in Australia, Will Dunham, Reuters, June 14, 2024.
- Early Ants May Have Had
Complex Social Lives, Fossil Data Suggests, Jake Buehler, Science News, June 14, 2024.
- New Fossils of
Nautilus-Like Cephalopod Unearthed in Argentina, Enrico de Lazaro, Sci News, June 10, 2024.
- Three Boys Left
'Completely Speechless" After Finding T rex Bone in North Dakota, Edward Helmore, The Guardian, June 4, 2024.
- How Sharks Survived a Major Spike in
Earth's Temperature, University of California, Riverside, Science Daily, June 3, 2024.
- 205-Million-Year-Old Bone Bed Sheds
Light on History of Dinosaurs in Wales, Sci News, May 30, 2024.
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'Virtually complete' Stegosaurus Fossil to be Auctioned at Sotheby's Geek Week, Rupert Neate The Guardian, May 29, 2024.
- Fossils on the Roof, Michael Popp, Louisville
Fossils blog, May 18, 2024.
- How Smart Was T. rex, Freda Keier, Science News,
May 16, 2024.
- Study: Warm-Bloodedness in Theropod and
Ornithischian Dinosaurs Evolved by Early Jurassic, Sci News, May 16, 2024.
- The Encrusters Who Went Missing: A New Paper
on the Taphonomy of Bryozoans That Encrusted Brachiopods in the Late Ordovician of the Cincinnati Region, USA, Mark Wilson,
Wooster Geologists blog, May 13, 2024.
- Newly-Discovered Species of Mammal
Lived 610,000 Years After Dinosaur Extinction, Natali Anderson, Sci News, May 6, 2024.
- Chicago Museum
Acquires New Specimen of Famed Archaeopteryx, Will Dunham, Reuters, May 6, 2024.
- Chinese Scientists Discover New Kind of
Dinosaur Egg, Ding Rui, Sixth Tone, April 30, 2024.
- How Smart Were Tyrannosaurus rex and
Other Large Theropod Dinosaurs?, Science News, April 29, 2024.
- Rare Dinosaur Tracks
Are Longest Continuous Set of Sauropod Footprints, Kelly Kizer Whitt, EarthSky, April 28, 2024.
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'An Enigma': Scientists Finally Learn What Giant Prehistoric Shark Looked Like, Nicola Davis, The Guardian, April 23, 2024.
- Gigantic Marine
Reptile's Fossils Found by British Girl and Father, Will Dunham, Reuters, April 15, 2024.
- Review: The New Peabody Museum, Ben,
Extinct Monsters blog, April 12, 2024.
- Earliest Dinosaurs
and Their Non-Dinosaurian Contempories Had Rapid Growth Rates, Study Say, Sci News, April 8, 2024.
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Scientists Have Discovered the World's First Polyene Pigments in Fossils, University of Gottingen, Sci Tech Daily, April 8, 2024.
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Just Our Type: Smithsonian's Dinosaur Skeleton Becomes the Scientific Standard for Prehistoric Predator, Smithsonian News Release, April 5, 2024.
- Oligocene-Period Dolphin Had Unique Feeding Method,
Enrico de Lazaro, Sci News, April 5, 2024.
- Devonian Fossil Shark
Found in Arkansas, Enrico de Lazaro, Sci News, March 26, 2024.
- An Extinct Sofa-Sized Turtle May Have
Lived Alongside Humans, Jake Buehler, Science News, March 26, 2024.
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Scientists Names Newly Discovered Ancient Amphibian Species After Kermit the Frog, Nadeem Badshah, The Guardian, March 21, 2024.
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Fossil of 16-Million-Year-Old River Dolphin Found in Peru, Reuters, March 20, 2024.
- A Man Walking His Dog
Found a Rare Intact Dinosaur Skeleton, Dave Kindy, Washington Post, March 3, 2024.
- Findings in Australia Unveil
Treasure Trove of Cambrian Mollusks, Phys.Org, February 29, 2024.
- Why These 4
Massive Dinosaurs Also Had the Tiniest Arms, Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, February 27, 2024.
- Dinocephalosaurus Was Fully Marine
Reptile and Even Gave Birth at Sea, Sci News, February 23, 2024.
- Why Two Prehistoric Sharks Found
in Ohio Got New Names, Jeff Grabmeier, The Ohio State University, Phys.Org, February 19, 2024.
- How Great
Fossil Sites Shape Our Understanding of Evolutionary Relationships Between Fossil Groups, Natural History Museum of
Los Angeles County, Phys.Org, February 14, 2024.
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The First Dinosaur Was Named 200 Years Ago. We Know So Much More Now., Will Dunham, Reuters, February 13, 2024.
- Extinct Shark's Teeth
Had Their Own Needle-Like Fangs, Sergio Prostak, Science News, February 12, 2024.
- A Rare 3-D Tree Fossil May Be
the Earliest Glimpse at a Forest Understory, Helen Bradshaw, Science News, February 6, 2024.
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Robo-Dinosaur Scares Grasshoppers to Shed Light on Why Dinos Evolved Feathers, Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, February 6, 2024.
- 380-Million-Year-Old Fossils of
Air-Breathing Tetrapod Fish Found in Australia, Enrico de Lazaro, Sci News, February 6, 2024.
- I Started Fossil Hunting in My 60s - Now I Have More Than
2,000 Pieces, Rachael Pells, Nature, February 5, 2024.
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An Ancient Sloth Weighing at Least 500 Pounds Fell Victim to a Sinkhole, Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, January 25, 2024.
- Paleontologists Discover New Species of
Oviraptorosaur in South Dakota, Sergio Prostak, Sci News, January 25, 2024.
- Slender Shark:
Stuidy Finds Megalodon Was Not Like a Gigantic Great White, Kristin Mathews, DePaul Newsroom, January 22, 2024.
- The Largest Ape
Stood 10 Feet Tall, But Couldn't Rise Above Extinction, Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, January 12, 2024.
- Miners Discover
Seven-Foot Mammoth Tusk in North Dakota, Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, January 11, 2024.
- The Oldest Known
Fossilized Skin Shows How Life Adapted to Land, Nikk Ogasa, Science News, January 11, 2024.
- Paleontologists Find 315-Million-Year-Old
Sponge Fossil in Ireland, Enrico de Lazaro, SciNews, January 5, 2024.
- A Juvenile
Tyrannosaurus rex, or Not? A New Study Challenges an Ongoing Debate, Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, January 5, 2024.
- Ancient Primates'
Unchipped Teeth Hint That They Ate Mostly Fruit, Erin Garcia de Jesus, Science News, January 5, 2024.
- Africans
Discovered Dinosaur Fossils Long Before the Term 'Paleontology' Existed, Julien Benoit, et al., The Conversation, January 4, 2024.
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Dinosaurs May Be the Reason Why Humans Have Low Lifespans, Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, January 2, 2024.
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