News tagged with fossil history
'Fossil eel' squirms into the record books
A new species of eel found in the gloom of an undersea cave is a "living fossil" astonishingly similar to the first eels that swam some 200 million years ago, biologists reported on Wednesday.
Aug 17, 2011 |
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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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47-million-year-old fossil could shed light on primate family tree
(PhysOrg.com) -- A 47-million-year-old primate fossil, a purported "missing link" between primates and humans, was unveiled this week in New York. The fossil, formally called Darwinius masillae but nicknamed ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 19, 2009 |
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Dinosaurs had fleas too -- giant ones, fossils show
In the Jurassic era, even the flea was a beast, compared to its minuscule modern descendants. These pesky bloodsuckers were nearly an inch long.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 29, 2012 |
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Warm and fuzzy T. rex? New evidence surprises
The discovery of a giant meat-eating dinosaur sporting a downy coat has some scientists reimagining the look of Tyrannosaurus rex.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Four, three, two, one... pterosaurs have lift off
Pterosaurs have long suffered an identity crisis. Pop culture heedlessly — and wrongly — lumps these extinct flying lizards in with dinosaurs. Even paleontologists assumed that because the creatures flew, they were birdlike ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 06, 2009 |
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Cretaceous octopus with ink and suckers -- the world's least likely fossils?
New finds of 95 million year old fossils reveal much earlier origins of modern octopuses. These are among the rarest and unlikeliest of fossils. The chances of an octopus corpse surviving long enough to be fossilized are ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Toothed pterosaur: Tiny fossil fragment reveals giant-but-ugly-truth
New research from the Universities of Portsmouth and Leicester has identified a small fossil fragment at the Natural History Museum, London as being part of a giant pterosaur – setting a new upper limit ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 13, 2011 |
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Fossil find fills in picture of ancient marine life
Paleontologists have discovered a rich array of exceptionally preserved fossils of marine animals that lived between 480 million and 472 million years ago, during the early part of a period known as the Ordovician. ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 13, 2010 |
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Scientists reveal a first in Ice Age art
Researchers from the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Florida have announced the discovery of a bone fragment, approximately 13,000 years old, in Florida with an incised image ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 21, 2011 |
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Fossil shelved for a century reworks carnivore family tree
More than a hundred years after its discovery, the limbs and vertebrae of a fossil have been pulled off the shelf at the American Museum of Natural History to revise the view of early carnivore lifestyles. ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 22, 2009 |
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'Pregnant plesiosaur' examined
A paper to be published on August 12, 2011 in Science reveals that Dr. F. Robin O'Keefe of Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va. and Dr. Luis Chiappe, Director of the Natural History Museum's Dinosaur Institute, have d ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 11, 2011 |
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Ancient whale species sheds new light on its modern relatives
Beluga whales and narwhals live solely in the cold waters of the Arctic and sub-arctic. Smithsonian scientists, however, found that this may not have always been the case. They recently described a new species ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 22, 2012 |
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Fossil fish shows oldest live birth
(PhysOrg.com) -- A 380-million-year-old fossil fish that shows an unborn embryo and umbilical cord has been discovered, scientists report in the journal Nature.
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Feb 25, 2009 |
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Peruvian stalagmites a new basis for 'Inconvenient truth'?
Will the Netherlands that is dominated by water succumb to the 'Inconvenient Truth' predicted by Al Gore? Dutch researcher Martin van Breukelen analysed stalagmites from the South American Amazon tributaries in Peru. He used ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 29, 2009 |
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