Fires and floods key to dinosaur island secrets
Fires and floods which raged across the Isle of Wight some 130 million years ago made the island the richest source of pick ānā mix dinosaur remains of this age anywhere in the world.
Fires and floods which raged across the Isle of Wight some 130 million years ago made the island the richest source of pick ānā mix dinosaur remains of this age anywhere in the world.
Archaeology
Aug 24, 2010
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Sauropod dinosaurs, like the famous Brachiosaurus or Argentinosaurus, are known above all for their enormous size. Yet some of these giants evolved into dwarfs. An international research team at Bonn University has now confirmed ...
Archaeology
May 3, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing studying the feathers of the dinosaur Similicaudipteryx have found the feather structures changed as the animals matured, with the fossil of a smaller ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Cambridge, London and Melbourne have found the first ever evidence that tyrannosaur dinosaurs existed in the southern continents. They identified a hip bone found at Dinosaur Cove in Victoria, ...
Archaeology
Mar 25, 2010
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In 2006, a team of Spanish and American researchers found the fossil remains of a whale, 4.5 million years old, in Bonares, Huelva. Now they have published, for the first time, the results of the decay and fossilisation process ...
Archaeology
Dec 15, 2009
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French researchers on Tuesday said they had uncovered the biggest dinosaur footprints in the world, left by giant sauropods that may have weighed 40 tonnes or more.
Archaeology
Oct 6, 2009
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Internationally renowned palaeontologist and Monash University Honorary Research Associate, Dr Anthony Martin has found evidence of a dinosaur burrow along the coast of Victoria, which helps to explain how dinosaurs protected ...
Archaeology
Jul 16, 2009
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(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 including Museum scientists. ...
Feb 25, 2009
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The earliest known bird, the magpie-sized Archaeopteryx, had a similar hearing range to the modern emu, which suggests that the 145 million-year-old creature ā despite its reptilian teeth and long tail ā was more birdlike ...
Archaeology
Jan 14, 2009
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