New dinosaur discovered head first, for a change (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of paleontologists has discovered a new dinosaur species they're calling Abydosaurus, which belongs to the group of gigantic, long-necked, long-tailed, four-legged, ...
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Feb 23, 2010 |
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Study: Animals populated Madagascar by rafting there
How did the lemurs, flying foxes and narrow-striped mongooses get to the large, isolated island of Madagascar sometime after 65 million years ago?
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Jan 20, 2010 |
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Fossil footprints give land vertebrates a much longer history
The discovery of fossil footprints from early backboned land animals in Poland leads to the sensational conclusion that our ancestors left the water at least 18 million years earlier than previously thought. ...
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Jan 06, 2010 |
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Students' sharp eyes restore dinosaur's rightful name
(PhysOrg.com) -- Three graduate students in paleontology blew dust off dinosaur toes found in 1924 to discover that something didn't quite add up. After examining a few more fossilized bones, they concluded ...
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Dec 28, 2009 |
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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. ...
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Dec 22, 2009 |
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U of A students reaffirm the work of a 1920s paleontologist
Three University of Alberta paleontology graduate students blew the dust off an 85-year-old dinosaur find to discover the original researcher had it right and a 1970s revision of his work was wrong.
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Dec 14, 2009 |
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Portable 3-D laser technology preserves Texas dinosaur's rare footprint
Using portable 3D laser technology, scientists have electronically preserved a rare 110 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint that was previously excavated and built into the wall of a bandstand at a Texas courthouse ...
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Nov 04, 2009 |
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Team Discovers New Dinosaur Species From Montana
A husband and wife team of American paleontologists has discovered a new species of dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago during the early Cretaceous of central Montana.
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Oct 30, 2009 |
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The first neotropical rainforest was home of the Titanoboa
Smithsonian researchers working in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine have unearthed the first megafossil evidence of a neotropical rainforest. Titanoboa, the world's biggest snake, lived in this forest ...
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Oct 12, 2009 |
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Trackway analysis shows how dinosaurs coped with slippery slopes
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new investigation of a fossilized tracksite in southern Africa shows how early dinosaurs made on-the-fly adjustments to their movements to cope with slippery and sloping terrain. Differences ...
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Oct 06, 2009 |
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Plesiosaur a victim of shark attack
(PhysOrg.com) -- An 85 million-year-old plesiosaur fossil has been found with over 80 shark's teeth, suggesting the animal was the victim of sharks in a feeding frenzy. The find is perhaps the most spectacular example of ...
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Oct 06, 2009 |
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Ancient toothed whale remains found near Santa Cruz
A 1,000-pound slab of sandstone lifted off a beach in Santa Cruz County, Calif., Wednesday may provide a better glimpse of what plied the seas 5 million years ago.
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Aug 13, 2009 |
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Chicken-hearted tyrants: Predatory dinosaurs as baby killers
Two titans fighting a bloody battle -- that often turns fatal for both of them. This is how big predatory dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus are often depicted while hunting down their supposed prey: even larger herbivorous dinosaurs. ...
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Aug 06, 2009 |
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How does this grab you? Study identifies first ancestor with a 'grasping hand'
In the Late Paleozoic (260 million years ago), long before dinosaurs dominated the Earth, ancient precursors to mammals took to the trees to feed on leaves and live high above predators that prowled the land, ...
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Jul 29, 2009 |
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Ancient mammal tracks found at national monument
(AP) -- Hundreds of tiny footprints left by mammals some 190 million years ago have been found on a canyon wall in a remote part of Dinosaur National Monument, park officials said Thursday.
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Jul 24, 2009 |
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