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Dinosaur tracks in Bolivia threatened with extinction

Oct 03, 2014 (AFP)

A hill in southeastern Bolivia is crisscrossed by fossilized dinosaur tracks -- a total of more than 5,000 footprints, some more than a meter long, dating back ...

How dinosaur arms turned into bird wings

Oct 01, 2014 (SPX)

Although we now appreciate that birds evolved from a branch of the dinosaur family tree, a crucial adaptation for flight has continued to puzzle evolutionary bi...

Tooth serves as evidence of 220 million-year-old attack

Sep 30, 2014 (SPX)

At the beginning of the age of dinosaurs, gigantic reptiles-distant relatives of modern crocodiles-ruled the earth. Some lived on land and others in water and i...

Tooth lodged in thighbone evidence of ancient dino struggle

Sep 29, 2014 (UPI)

Paleontologists have long assumed that semiaquatic dinosaurs and land-based predators mostly kept their distance from each other, preferring to avoid conflict o...

Multicellular fossil could be one of world's earliest animals

Sep 25, 2014 (UPI)

The evolutionary timeline is constantly evolving -- being tweaked to adopt and adapt to new discoveries, new facts, new understandings. Thanks to a geologist at...

New Mexico dig unearths new ankylosaur dino species

Sep 25, 2014 (UPI)

As they seem to do every week, scientists unveiled yet another new type of dinosaur on Wednesday -- this one discovered in 2011 by a joint team of diggers from ...

Newly discovered dinosaur species had giant nose

Sep 19, 2014 (UPI)

Look out Jason Schwartzman and Barbara Streisand, there's a new famous nose on the block -- and it belongs to a gentle giant who's more than 75 million years ol...

Meteorite that doomed the dinosaurs helped the forests bloom

Sep 17, 2014 (SPX)

66 million years ago, a 10-km diameter chunk of rock hit the Yukatan peninsula near the site of the small town of Chicxulub with the force of 100 teratons of TN...

Early Earth less hellish than previously thought

Sep 17, 2014 (SPX)

Conditions on Earth for the first 500 million years after it formed may have been surprisingly similar to the present day, complete with oceans, continents and ...

Scientists report first semiaquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus

Sep 12, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists have unveiled what appears to be the first truly semiaquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. New fossils of the massive Cretaceous-era predator re...

Shark-munching Spinosaurus was first-known water dino: study

Sep 11, 2014 (AFP)

There once was a dinosaur, bigger than a T. rex, that swam with the sharks -- and ate them for dinner. The first evidence that a fierce and well-known meat-munc...

Testing the fossil record

Sep 11, 2014 (SPX)

Researcher Bjarte Hannisdal is a co-author of an article in the journal Nature Communications, in which he and two colleagues ask a long-standing question: How ...

Ancient sloths became big-bodied very quickly

Sep 10, 2014 (UPI)

Today, sloths take their time, sluggishly making their way from branch to branch in the jungles of South and Central America. Modern sloths are also small. Thei...

Drexel team unveils Dreadnoughtus

Sep 10, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists have discovered and described a new supermassive dinosaur species with the most complete skeleton ever found of its type. At 85 feet (26 m) long and ...

Trinity geologists re-write Earth's evolutionary history books

Sep 09, 2014 (SPX)

Geologists from Trinity College Dublin have rewritten the evolutionary history books by finding that oxygen-producing life forms were present on Earth some 3 bi...

Egyptian art offers clues to mammalian extinctions through history

Sep 09, 2014 (UPI)

Some six millennia ago, 37 species of large-bodied mammals roamed the deserts and river valleys of modern Egypt. Today, there are only eight. And as new researc...

How good is the fossil record?

Sep 05, 2014 (SPX)

Methods have been developed to try to identify and correct for bias in the fossil record but new research from the Universities of Bristol and Bath, suggests ma...

Plant Life Forms in the Fossil Record: When Did the First Canopy Flowers Appear?

Sep 03, 2014 (SPX)

Most plant fossils are isolated organs, making it difficult to reconstruct the type of plant life or its ecosystem structure. In their study for GEOLOGY, publis...

Walking fish reveal how our ancestors evolved onto land

Aug 29, 2014 (SPX)

About 400 million years ago a group of fish began exploring land and evolved into tetrapods - today's amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. But just how the...

Oldest fossil of animal with muscles found in Newfoundland

Aug 27, 2014 (UPI)

Scientists say a fossil unearthed in Newfoundland is the earliest evidence of an animal with muscles -- proof that complex animals had begun exploring the world...