News tagged with ancient beasts

After 50 years, fossil fans still dig at Lake Nojiri in Japan

More than half a century after fossils of Naumann elephants were discovered at Lake Nojiri in Shinano, Nagano Prefecture in Japan, the hunt for more fossils of the ancient beasts is continuing - and everyone has been welcome ...

Archaeology

Mar 28, 2012

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Air-filled bones helped prehistoric reptiles take first flight

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the Mesozoic Era, 70 million years before birds first conquered the skies, pterosaurs dominated the air with sparrow- to Cessna-sized wingspans. Researchers suspected that these extinct reptiles sustained ...

Archaeology

Feb 18, 2009

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