paleontology

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To understand how this played out, the research team assembled an extensive fossil database spanning two centuries of late Ordovician and early Silurian paleontology.

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Since then, the site has produced fossils of turtles, lizards, and mammals, along with many snake remains, including some that have played an important role in paleontology.

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How quickly marine ecosystems recovered after this disaster has been one of the most hotly debated questions in paleontology.

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"It gives us a new way to date fossil sites where volcanic layers are missing, a challenge that has limited paleontology for decades."

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A remarkably complete tyrannosaur skeleton has brought new clarity to one of paleontology's longest debates: whether Nanotyrannus was its own species or merely a young Tyrannosaurus rex.

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