American Museum of Natural History
Dirty stars make good solar system hosts (w/ Video)
Some stars are lonely behemoths, with no surrounding planets or asteroids, while others sport a skirt of attendant planetary bodies. New research published this week in The Astrophysical Journal Letters explains why the co ...
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Bizarre new horned tyrannosaur from Asia described
Now, just a few weeks after tiny, early Raptorex kriegsteini was unveiled, a new wrench has been thrown into the family tree of the tyrannosaurs. The new Alioramus altai—a horned, long-snouted, gracile cousi ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Jade sheds light on Guatemala's geologic history
The shifting of tectonic plates in Central America has been poorly understood -- until now. New research on jade found along fault lines in Guatemala is helping geologists piece the puzzle of the past 130 million years.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 27, 2009 |
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New analysis shows 'hobbits' couldn't hustle
A detailed analysis of the feet of Homo floresiensis—the miniature hominins who lived on a remote island in eastern Indonesia until 18,000 years ago -- may help settle a question hotly debated among paleontologists: how si ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 06, 2009 |
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Dinosaurs declined before mass extinction
Dinosaurs were dying out much earlier than the mass extinction event 65 million years ago, Natural History Museum scientists report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society journal today.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 30, 2009 |
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Was Triceratops a social animal?
Until now, Triceratops was thought to be unusual among its ceratopsid relatives. While many ceratopsids—a common group of herbivorous dinosaurs that lived toward the end of the Cretaceous—have been found ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Oldest fossil brain found in Kansas (Videos)
When Alan Pradel of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris CAT scanned a 300-million-year-old fossilized iniopterygian from Kansas, he and his colleagues saw a symmetrical blob nestled within ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Fossilised pregnant fish was one of the first animals to have sex
(PhysOrg.com) -- A pregnant fossil fish at the Natural History Museum in London has shed light on the possible origin of sex, according to a study published in Nature today by an international team includ ...
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Feb 25, 2009 |
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'Great speciators' explained: It's intrinsic
New molecular research shows that birds within the family Zosteropidae—named white eyes for the feathers that frame their eyes—form new species at a faster rate than any other known bird. Remarkably, unlike ...
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Jan 26, 2009 |
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Microscopic morphology adds to the scorpion family tree
Modern microscopy technology has allowed two scorpion biologists, Carsten Kamenz of the Humboldt University in Berlin and Lorenzo Prendini of the American Museum of Natural History, to study and document what ...
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Jan 12, 2009 |
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Cookie cutter in the sky: Seeing the shape of material around black holes for first time
Black holes can now be thought of as donut holes. The shape of material around black holes has been seen for the first time: an analysis of over 200 active galactic nuclei—cores of galaxies powered by disks ...
Dec 16, 2008 |
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Did a good sense of smell give us an evolutionary advantage over Neanderthals?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our sense of smell may have been as important as language in helping to give us, modern humans, an evolutionary advantage over other human relatives such as the Neanderthals, scientists report ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Bone-eating 'zombie' worms can no longer hide
Bone-eating 'zombie' worms may be good at keeping out of sight, living off dead whales in the darkness of the sea floor, but scientists have found out how to detect them, even if there’s no trace of their ...
Oct 31, 2011 |
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First Australian spinosaur dinosaur had global distribution
(PhysOrg.com) -- Could the first Australian spinosaur dinosaur be a Baryonyx? New research has uncovered a fossil cervical vertebra that is nearly identical to a Baryonyx specimen at the Museum. This research ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 15, 2011 |
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Oily whale bones puzzle solved
The puzzle of why some oily whale bones make great habitats for weird and wonderful deep sea creatures has been solved by Natural History Museum scientists this month.
Aug 31, 2010 |
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