News tagged with fossil skeleton
Dinosaur discovery helps solve piece of evolutionary puzzle (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A George Washington University expedition to the Gobi Desert of China has enabled researchers to solve the puzzle of how one group of dinosaurs came to look like birds independent of birds. ...
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Jan 28, 2010 |
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Rare dinosaur skeleton turned over to researchers
(AP) -- A rare and nearly complete dinosaur skeleton stolen from private property in Montana and stored in an evidence locker for more than two years has been turned over to researchers.
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Jan 25, 2010 |
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Science's breakthrough of the year: Uncovering 'Ardi'
The research that brought to light the fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia, has topped Science's list of this year's most significant s ...
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Bones of T. rex to make museum debut in Oregon
(AP) -- The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex will make its museum debut at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry along the banks of the Willamette River.
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Dec 11, 2009 |
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Early carnivorous dinosaurs crossed continents
Did the first dinosaurs wander across continents or stay put where they first evolved? The first dinosaurs evolved 230 million years ago when the continents were assembled into one landmass called Pangea. ...
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Dec 10, 2009 |
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The terrible teens of T. rex
We all know adolescents get testy from time to time. Thank goodness we don't have young tyrannosaurs running around the neighborhood.
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Nov 02, 2009 |
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Before 'Lucy,' there was 'Ardi': Oldest hominid skeleton provides new evidence for human evolution (w/ Video)
In a special issue of Science, an international team of scientists has for the first time thoroughly described Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiop ...
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Oct 01, 2009 |
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Indonesian elephant fossil opens window to past
(AP) -- Indonesian scientists are reconstructing the largest, most complete skeleton of a prehistoric giant elephant ever found in the tropics, a finding that may offer new clues into the largely mysterious ...
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Jun 23, 2009 |
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A million-year-old mammoth skeleton found in Serbia: report
A finely preserved skeleton of a mammoth, believed to be one million years old, was uncovered near an archaeological site in eastern Serbia, local media reported on Wednesday.
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Jun 03, 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 ...
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May 19, 2009 |
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Fossil evidence of missing link in the origin of seals, sea lions, walruses found in Canadian Arctic
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the United States and Canada have found a fossil skeleton of a newly discovered carnivorous animal, Puijila darwini. New research suggests Puijila is a "missing link" in the ...
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Apr 22, 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 ...
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Mar 17, 2009 |
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The way of the digital dodo
(PhysOrg.com) -- The laser light glowed brilliant red, forming a moving line as it bounced information from the dodo’s bones back into the high-tech scanner sitting on a tripod on the Museum of Comparative ...
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Feb 20, 2009 |
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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 ...
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Feb 18, 2009 |
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New piece in the jigsaw puzzle of human origins
In an article in today's Nature, Uppsala researcher Martin Brazeau describes the skull and jaws of a fish that lived about 410 million years ago. The study may give important clues to the origin of jawed vertebrates, and th ...
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Jan 15, 2009 |
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