News tagged with fossil bones
Fossil bone bed helps reconstruct life along California's ancient coastline
In the famed Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed near Bakersfield, Calif., shark teeth as big as a hand and weighing a pound each, intermixed with copious bones from extinct seals and whales, seem to tell of a 15-million-year-old ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Montana man gets 60 days for dinosaur bones theft
(AP) -- A commercial fossil hunter, whose discovery of the world's best-preserved dinosaur brought scientific acclaim, will serve 60 days in jail for stealing raptor bones from private land.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Evidence of the 'Lost World' -- did dinosaurs survive the end Cretaceous extinctions?
The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's account of an isolated community of dinosaurs that survived the catastrophic extinction event 65 million years ago, has no less appeal now than it did when it was written a century ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Why certain fishes went extinct 65 million years ago
Large size and a fast bite spelled doom for bony fishes during the last mass extinction 65 million years ago, according to a new study to be published March 31, 2009, in the Proceedings of the National Ac ...
Mar 26, 2009 |
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1.5 million-year-old fossil humans walked on modern feet (Video)
Ancient footprints found at Rutgers' Koobi Fora Field School show that some of the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 26, 2009 |
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Nearly 50 new species of prehistoric creatures discovered in record time
In just four years a University of Portsmouth palaeontologist has discovered 48 new species from the age of the dinosaurs - while other scientists took 180 years to identify the same number.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Ancient wounds reveal Triceratops battles
How did the dinosaur Triceratops use its three horns? A new study published in the open-access, peer reviewed journal PLoS ONE and led by Andrew Farke, curator at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, locate ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 28, 2009 |
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