Fossil damaged at Dinosaur National Monument
Rangers are searching for leads after someone damaged a fossil at Dinosaur National Monument along the Utah-Colorado line.
Archaeology
Sep 7, 2014
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Revealing the healing of Dino-sores
Scientists have used state-of-the-art imaging techniques to examine the cracks, fractures and breaks in the bones of a 150 million-year-old predatory dinosaur.
Archaeology
May 6, 2014
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Paleontologists assemble giant turtle bone from fossil discoveries made centuries apart
A broken fossil turtle bone discovered by an amateur paleontologist in 2012 turned out to be the missing half of a bone first described in 1849. The surprising puzzle discovery has led paleontologists from the Academy of ...
Archaeology
Mar 25, 2014
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Researchers discover evidence in bones that shows ancient sloths returned to the sea
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers from the Sorbonne Universités have found evidence of an ancient sloth returning to the sea to survive. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, ...
Looking forward to the past: What fossils tell us about extinction
The impact of European settlement on Australia was so massive that many mammals disappeared before anyone noticed they were there, but fossils from the past 10,000 years offer excellent evidence of pre-European fauna.
Ecology
Jan 28, 2014
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Discovery of 1.4 million-year-old fossil human hand bone closes human evolution gap
Humans have a distinctive hand anatomy that allows them to make and use tools. Apes and other nonhuman primates do not have these distinctive anatomical features in their hands, and the point in time at which these features ...
Archaeology
Dec 16, 2013
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Researchers use CT and 3-D printers to recreate dinosaur fossils
Data from computed tomography (CT) scans can be used with three-dimensional (3-D) printers to make accurate copies of fossilized bones, according to new research published online in the journal Radiology.
Engineering
Nov 20, 2013
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Ancient European bear had unusually large penis bone
(Phys.org) —Researchers working at Spain's Batallones-3 dig site in the area of Cerro de los Batallones have unearthed five baculum (os penis) that once belonged to five now extinct examples of a species of bear classified ...
Research is challenging basic assumptions about dinosaurs—and greatly expanding the number of known species
On an afternoon in May, drivers zip down Anthony Henday Drive in Edmonton and children race home from school, all unaware that, in a wooded creek bed just a few hundred metres away, University of Alberta paleontologists and ...
Archaeology
Aug 13, 2013
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Broken tooth in dino tail 'proves' T. rex was predator
A broken T. rex tooth found in another dinosaur's tail bone offers the first hard evidence that the king of all meat-eating beasts hunted live prey, US paleontologists said Monday.
Archaeology
Jul 15, 2013
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