Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse ...

according to a study published 23 January in the Journal of Paleontology.

This work shows that it can be worthwhile for paleontologists to dig not only in the ground, but also in old archives,” Oliver Rauhut from the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and ...

The fossil's eventful history stretches far back into the past: The original skeleton of the large predatory dinosaur was described by the Munich paleontologist Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach (1871 ...

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