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To find answers, a team of researchers studied North America’s fossil record, focusing on the 18 million years before the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. The new analysis ...

Building on previous research that suggested that sampling bias in the fossil record might be leading paleontologists to unfound conclusions, the test applied new methods that are less reliant on ...

The scientists said the fossilized tracks, recovered from two distinct rock layers, uncovered behaviors and species previously undocumented in the monument's fossil record, including ...

said Dean, according to SciTechDaily. The study, published in the journal Current Biology, examined the North American fossil record from the last 18 million years of the Cretaceous period ...

They found fewer accessible rocks from that period, leading to an incomplete fossil record. The apparent decline may be due to breaks in the fossil record, not an actual extinction event.

Dinosaurs' apparent decline prior to asteroid may be due to poor fossil record Date: April 8, 2025 Source: University College London Summary: The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before ...