James Harden

For The First Time Since Its Discovery In 1854, Scientists Found A Juvenile Arthropleura Fossil With A Complete Head In France. CT Scans Revealed, E.G., Millipede-Like Antennas, Centipede-Like Mandibles, & Crab-Like Eyes. Arthropleura, A 300-Myr-Old Ancestor Of Centipedes & Millipedes, Was The Largest Bug On Earth And Likely A Plant Eater.

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A 127 Myr-Old Fossil Of A Side-Necked Turtle (SNT), Said To Be UK’s First SNT, Was Discovered On The Isle Of Wight. SNT Is Known For Retracting Its Neck Sideways When Threatened. The Fossil, Dubbed ‘Burby,’ Missing Only The Skull, Was Radiometrically Dated & Analyzed Via Micro CT Scan. The Findings Were Donated To The Dinosaur Isle Museum.

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Scientists Are Indicating That The White Rock Spinosaurid, A Giant Crocodile-Faced Dinosaur, Discovered On The Isle Of Wight, Could Be Europe’s Biggest Predatory Dinosaur. The Animal, Estimated To Be 125 Myrs Old And Said To Exceed 10 Metres (33 Feet) In Length, Could Be A New Spinosaurid Species, And The Youngest Spinosaurid Ever Found.

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Researchers May Have Discovered The Largest Arthropod That Ever Lived/ The Biggest Animal On Land During The Carboniferous. The Arthropod Fossil, A Monstrous Millipede Ancestor About 326 Myrs Old, Called Arthropleura, Was Discovered In 2018 In Northumberland, NE England. The Car-Sized Millipede Was ~8.5 ft (2.6 m) Long And Weighed ~110 Pounds (50Kg).

Just Like The Human Opposable Thumbs, Which Can Be Moved Around To Touch Other Fingers, Enabling Us To, E.G, Climb And Grab Things, A Pterosaur, Named Monkeydactyl, May Be The Oldest Creature With Opposable Thumbs. This Attribute Probably Allowed This Flying Reptiles To Climb Trees, About 160 Million Years Ago, To Feed On Insects And Preys.

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Caecilians, Like Most Amphibians, Have Been Thought To Produce Only Poisons. But This Discovery Marks The First Time Of Finding Venom Glands In The Mouth Of An Amphibian. Caecilians Are Said To Look Like A Hybrid Between A Worm and A Snake But Predate Snakes By About A 100 Myrs, Making Them One Of The Oldest Venomous Biters On Earth.

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The Fossil Of The Earliest Known Land Animal, 425 Myrs Old, May Has Been Discovered In Scotland. The Fossil, Called Kampecaris Obanensis (KO), About 2.5cm Long, Resembles Modern Day Millipedes, Though Not Ancestral. KO May Be The Oldest Animal From Fossil Records, But The Living Soil Warm Are Believed To Be Older, 450 Myrs Old, Than It.

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For The First Time, The Fossil Of A Flying Reptile, An Unusual Group Of Pterodactyls Known As Tapejarids, Which Existed In China And Brazil, Has Been Found On The Largest Island In England, Isle Of Wight. The Fossil, Named Wightia Declivirostris, Adds To Diversity Of Prehistoric Reptiles And Dinosaurs Found On The Island.

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The Fossil Of The Oldest Salamander, Triassurus Sixtelae, May Have Been Discovered In Kyrgyzstan. The Fossil, About 250 Myrs Old, Triassic, Is Also Said To Be The Most Primitive Amphibian Thought To Have Crawled Out Of A Muddy Freshwater Lake Millions Of Years Ago. This Discovery May Shed Some Light On The Mysterious Origin Of Amphibians.

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A New Species Of Salamander, Said To Be The Biggest Amphibian In The World, May Have Been Discovered. The Discovery Was Made From A Salamander, Known As China Giant Salamander, Which Lived In London Zoo For 20 Years Before Being Preserved, For 74 Years, At The Natural History Museum. The Species Is Presumed To Still Live In The Wild.

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Embryonic Communication, Like In Amphibians And Reptiles, Isn’t New, But It’s Fascinating To Know That Well Developed Unhatched Chicks Can Sense Danger While Still In The Egg, And Communicate The Danger Signal With Each Other By Vibrating Their Shells. But How These Embryos Produce And Understand The Signal Still Puzzles Researchers.

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Pterodactyls, Extinct Reptiles That Existed About 200 MYA, Have Now Been Theorized To Fly At The Very Early Stage Of Postnatal Development. The Previous Theory Had Indicated That The Reptile Needed Extended Parental Care To Be Capable Of Flight. This Finding Probably Makes The Reptile The First Creature Capable Of Flight From Birth.

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