Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐17h ago
El Garudapterus buffetauti fue un pterosaurio del Cretácico temprano (132-121 MdA) con un hocico en forma de espátula, más ancha en la zona media, con largos dientes sobresalientes hacia los lados. 📷DinoThaiThai Chatchy #cretacico #cretaceous
Global Museum17h ago
Extraordinary Fossil Reveals Fatal Duel Between Ocean Titans 80 Million Years Ago.
A fossil discovery from Alabama reveals a rare and dramatic glimpse into the dangers of Cretaceous oceans, where even top predators were vulnerable
https://scitechdaily.com/extraordinary-fossil-reveals-fatal-duel-between-ocean-titans-80-million-years-ago/ #globalmuseum #fossils #cretaceous
michael2d ago

25-Mar-2026
Shell-cracking #turtles defied mass #extinction at the end of the #Cretaceous period

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1121347

#science #ecology

Shell-cracking turtles defied mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period

The asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period caused one of the largest mass extinctions in Earth's history. But some organisms defied the catastrophe. For turtles, the chance of survival was apparently linked to their diet: species with a preference for hard-shelled organisms survived the catastrophic event. SNSB paleontologist Serjoscha Evers published the results of his study in the journal Biology Letters.

EurekAlert!
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺4d ago

Shell-cracking #turtles defied mass extinction at the end of the #Cretaceous period https://phys.org/news/2026-03-shell-turtles-defied-mass-extinction.html #Paleoart by @JoschuaKnuppe

Ecological selectivity of diet on turtle K/Pg survivorship https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article/22/3/20250790/481023/Ecological-selectivity-of-diet-on-turtle-K-Pg

"turtles that fed on hard-shelled organisms such as gastropods and bivalves survived the mass #extinction largely unscathed. And they were more than five times more likely to survive than turtles that hunted fish or that were purely herbivorous."

charring auhMar 23
#Sturgeon” is the common name for the 27 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae. The earliest sturgeon fossils date to the Late #Cretaceous, and are descended from other, earlier
Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐Mar 21
El Dsungaripterus weii fue un pterosaurio del Cretácico temprano, de unos 3-3,5 m de envergadura, que buscaba su alimento entre el barro en zonas acuáticas de interior. Gracias a su pico curvo, sacaba a criaturas entre las rocas, masticando con facilidad su caparazón gracias a sus dientes. 📷Connor Ashbridge #cretacico #cretaceous
Plazi SpeciesMar 6

#NewSpecies!
New grasshopper from the lower cretaceous in #brazil just came in:

Cratomastax mariellaae

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3C188DEF-A3D0-59AC-A2DC-80C02B7A2211
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/contrib.entomol.76.e173923
#ContributionsToEntomology #CratomastaxMariellaae

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #fauna #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #orthoptera #grasshopper #fossils #fossilfriday #paleo #paleontology #cretaceous

Stefan F. WirthMar 4

RE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/116142939438774146

What #amber #fossils can tell us about the early evolution of animal groups. Authors Hong-Yu Li et al. (2023) discovered several new genera and new species of #Mantispoidea from mid-#Cretaceous #Kachin #amber (#Myanmar). The new finds come from the still existing taxa Berothidae, Rhachiberothidae, Dipteromantispidae and Mantispidae. In the mid-Cretaceous #Rhachiberothidae e.g. were much more abundant and thus such fundings offer more insights into early #evolutionaryscenarios.

© StefanFWirth

David GraylessFeb 25
Hongshanornis is a #genus of #ornithuromorph birds known from early #Cretaceous lake deposits of the #YixianFormation, #InnerMongolia, #China. The holotype specimen, recovered in 2005, is currently held by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing. It was found in the Jianshangou fossil beds, dated to 124.6 million years ago. Three additional specimens have been reported, though only one of those has been definitively identified as belonging to Hongshanornis.
BlogorgonopsidFeb 21

Nový druh spinosaura, "volavka z pekla", Spinosaurus mirabilis, byl popsán v článku vydaném 19. února 2026 ve vědeckém časopise Science. Vybaveno nasálním hřebínkem, toto zvíře se určitě docela lišilo od druhu Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. Více o něm v nejnovějším příspěvku na blogu Blogorgonopsid!

#spinosaurus #mirabilis #paleontology #science #newspecies #dinosaurs #cretaceous #prehistory #fossil #discovery

https://blogorgonopsid.blogspot.com/2026/02/predstavuje-se-spinosaurus-mirabilis.html

Představuje se Spinosaurus mirabilis, nový velký teropod z Nigeru

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