News tagged with fossil skeleton
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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Scientists announce discovery of 3.6 million-year-old relative of 'Lucy'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Within the coarsening base of an ancient mudstone exposure in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, researchers say they found evidence that provides new information about the best-known early human ...
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Jun 21, 2010 |
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Out Of The Woods For 'Ardi': Scientists Rip Habitat Claim for 'Breakthrough of the Year'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ardipithecus ramidus - a purported human ancestor that was dubbed Science magazine's 2009 "Breakthrough of the Year" - is coming under fire from scientists who say there is scant evidence for he ...
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May 27, 2010 |
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Brazil experts find fossils of pre-dinosaur creature
Brazilian paleontologists announced Tuesday they discovered the well-preserved and near-complete fossils of a pre-dinosaur predator that lived some 238 million years ago.
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May 11, 2010 |
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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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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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Shift to shore: New model shows extinct tetrapod Ichthyostega couldn't walk
Palaeontology has gone high-tech: no more wax and plaster-cast models. Instead, 3D data from computed tomography (CT) scans is overturning long-held views of how the earliest land animals moved.
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May 23, 2012 |
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Exploding dinosaur hypothesis implodes
Exploding carcasses through putrefaction gases - this is how science explained the mysterious bone arrangements in almost fully preserved dinosaur skeletons for decades. Now a Swiss-German research team has ...
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Mar 28, 2012 |
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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 ...
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Mar 22, 2012 |
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Mystery human fossils put spotlight on China
Fossils from two caves in south-west China have revealed a previously unknown Stone Age people and give a rare glimpse of a recent stage of human evolution with startling implications for the early peopling ...
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Mar 14, 2012 |
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Small Asian dinosaur actually a juvenile tyrannosaur, not separate species, researchers say
New research from Montana State University's Museum of the Rockies is helping unravel the evolutionary history of the iconic tyrannosaurid dinosaurs, according to MSU scientists who reviewed past findings ...
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Jun 30, 2011 |
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Unlocking the past with the West Runton Elephant
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of York and Manchester have successfully extracted protein from the bones of a 600,000 year old mammoth, paving the way for the identification of ancient fossils.
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Mar 30, 2011 |
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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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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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