News tagged with fossil beds
Largest spider fossil found in China
(PhysOrg.com) -- According to Paul Selden, the director of the Paleontological Institute at the University of Kansas, he and his team members have discovered the largest spider fossil. The fossil was discovered ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 21, 2011 |
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First dinosaur fossil discovered in Angola
Scientists say they have discovered the first fossil of a dinosaur in Angola, and that it's a new creature, heralding a research renaissance in a country slowly emerging from decades of war.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Extinct giant shark nursery discovered in Panama
The six-foot-long babies of the world's biggest shark species, Carcharocles megalodon, frolicked in the warm shallow waters of an ancient shark nursery in what is now Panama, report paleontologists workin ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 17, 2010 |
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New picture of ancient ocean chemistry argues for chemically layered water
A research team led by biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside has developed a detailed and dynamic three-dimensional model of Earth's early ocean chemistry that can significantly advance ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 11, 2010 |
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Earliest animals lived in a lake environment, research shows
Evidence for life on Earth stretches back billions of years, with simple single-celled organisms like bacteria dominating the record. When multi-celled animal life appeared on the planet after 3 billion years ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Early whales gave birth on land, fossil find reveals (Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two newly described fossil whales---a pregnant female and a male of the same species--reveal how primitive whales gave birth and provide new insights into how whales made the transition from ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 04, 2009 |
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