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Shifts in Tectonic Plates Change Biodiversity

A 36-million-year cycle of marine biodiversity booms and busts matches the movements of plate tectonics, linking what happens deep below the ocean to what’s happening in it. ....

Slah Boulila , Bruce Lieberman , Danielle Beurteaux , Sorbonne University , University Of Sydney Gplates , University Of Kansas , Paleobiology Database , Public Domain ,

States Boasting the Highest Count of Dinosaur Discoveries – 24/7 Wall St.

In 1836, two Massachusetts residents found a series of three-toed tracks embedded in sandstone in the Connecticut River Valley. The president of Amherst College, Reverend Edward Hitchcock, described the tracks in the American Journal of Science as having been made by giant, three-toed birds. The footprints were, in fact, dinosaur footprints. (This is the largest […] ....

New Hampshire , United States , Rhode Island , Edward Hitchcock , Amherst College , Connecticut River , Reverend Edward Hitchcock , American Journal , Paleobiology Database , Reverend Hitchcock ,

What Do We Know about the Origin of Rhinos?

Although they are not the handsomest or most graceful creatures in the animal kingdom, the Rhinocerotoidea (superfamily) are a fascinating group for research. ....

Donaldr Prothero , Family Rhinocerotidae , What Do We Really , Paleobiology Database ,