Stories tagged with: Paleontology

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OHIO professor Nancy Stevens helps uncover ecosystem evolution in Africa in paper published in Science

April 28, 2023 3 min

OHIO's Nancy J. Stevens Ph.D., is coauthor on a paper published in the journal Science and funded by the NSF that documents the evolution of grassland ecosystems on continental Africa.

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Ohio University researchers Patrick O’Connor and Riley Sombathy co-author paper published in Science on body size evolution in dinosaurs

February 23, 2023 4 min

Researchers including OHIO professor Patrick O’Connor and Ph.D. student Riley Sombathy discovered through examining the bones of dinosaurs there was no relationship between growth rate and body size.
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Ohio University researchers help reveal evolution of oldest spinosaur brains

February 20, 2023 4 min

Researchers from Ohio University have reconstructed the brains and inner ears of two British spinosaurs, helping uncover how these large predatory dinosaurs interacted with their environment.
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Early bird with tall, sickle-shaped beak reveals hidden diversity during the Age of Dinosaurs

November 25, 2020 7 min

An international team of researchers led by Dr. Patrick O’Connor announced the discovery of a new bird fossil that helps better understand convergent evolution of the face and beak shape.

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Adelphi, OHIO researchers determine dinosaur replaced teeth as fast as sharks

December 9, 2019 3 min

A meat-eating dinosaur species (Majungasaurus) that lived in Madagascar some 70 million years ago replaced all its teeth every couple of months or so, research by OHIO and Adelphi faculty found.
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Early species developed much faster than previously thought, Ohio University research shows

August 15, 2019 4 min

Alycia Stigall and researchers have narrowed in a specific time during an era known as the Ordovician Radiation, showing that new species actually developed rapidly during a much shorter time frame.
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