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Exploring dinosaur growth
Jul 02, 2013 (SPX)
Psittacosaurus, the 'parrot dinosaur' is known from more than 1000 specimens from the Cretaceous, 100 million years ago, of China and other parts of east Asia. ...
Two mutations triggered an evolutionary leap 500 million years ago
Jun 28, 2013 (SPX)
Evolution, it seems, sometimes jumps instead of crawls. A research team led by a University of Chicago scientist has discovered two key mutations that sparked a...
A tandem-horned rhino from the Late Miocene of China reveals origin of the unicorn elasmothere
Jun 27, 2013 (SPX)
Although modern Indian and Javan rhinos have a single horn on their noses, the extinct one-horned rhino Elasmotherium was a source of the unicorn legend because...
Oddest couple ever found
Jun 25, 2013 (SPX)
Synchrotron imaging reveals odd couple - 250 million years ago, a mammal forerunner and an amphibian shared a burrow. Scientists from South Africa, Australia an...
Bumpy beast was a desert dweller
Jun 25, 2013 (SPX)
During the Permian era, the Earth was dominated by a single supercontinent called Pangea - "All-Earth". Animal and plant life dispersed broadly across this land...
Putting flesh on the bones of ancient fish
Jun 18, 2013 (SPX)
This week in the journal Science, Swedish and Australian researchers present the miraculously preserved musculature of 380 million year old fossil fishes, revea...
Research paints new picture of 'dinobird' feathers
Jun 17, 2013 (SPX)
The first complete chemical analysis of feathers from Archaeopteryx, a famous fossil linking dinosaurs and birds, reveals that the feathers were patterned-light...
Fossil kangaroo teeth reveal mosaic of Pliocene ecosystems in Queensland
Jun 17, 2013 (SPX)
The teeth of a kangaroo and other extinct marsupials reveal that southeastern Queensland 2.5-5-million-years ago was a mosaic of tropical forests, wetlands and ...
High diversity of flying reptiles in England 110 million years ago
Jun 14, 2013 (SPX)
Brazilian paleontologists Taissa Rodrigues, of the Federal University of Espirito Santo, and Alexander W. A. Kellner, of the National Museum of the Federal Univ...
500-million-year-old fossils reveal creature on the way to evolving jaws
Jun 11, 2013 (UPI)
For more than a century, scientists have searched for fossils that offer new clues as to when and how our earliest ancestors split off from their invertebrate b...
Living fossils? Actually, sturgeon are evolutionary speedsters
Jun 07, 2013 (SPX)
Efforts to restore sturgeon in the Great Lakes region have received a lot of attention in recent years, and many of the news stories note that the prehistoric-l...
Three billion-year-old microfossils include plankton
Jun 07, 2013 (SPX)
Spindle-shaped inclusions in 3 billion-year-old rocks are microfossils of plankton that probably inhabited the oceans around the globe during that time, accordi...
Fish species from 408 million years ago found in Teruel
Jun 05, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Valencia and the Natural History Museum of Berlin have studied the fossilised remains of scales and bones found in Teruel and...
Paleontologists dig up remains of ancient giant crocodile
Jun 04, 2013 (UPI)
Even Happy Gilmore wouldn't stand a chance against Balrog, the ancient croc named for the Mines of Moria monster in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Perhaps no one ...
Untangling the tree of life
May 29, 2013 (SPX)
These days, phylogeneticists - experts who painstakingly map the complex branches of the tree of life - suffer from an embarrassment of riches. The genomics rev...
42 mn km saved Earth from dry, Venus-like fate: study
May 29, 2013 (AFP)
Similar in size and often referred to as twin planets, Earth and Venus evolved from common origins into two contrasting worlds - one dry and inhospitable, the o...
Allosaurus fed more like a falcon than a crocodile
May 24, 2013 (SPX)
The mighty T. rex may have thrashed its massive head from side to side to dismember prey, but a new study shows that its smaller cousin Allosaurus was a more de...
The eloquence of the otoliths
May 22, 2013 (SPX)
Fish fossils that are about 23 million years old give unprecedented insight into the evolutionary history of the gobioid order, one of the most species-rich gro...
New 'fleet of foot' plant-eating dinosaur fossil found in Canada
May 22, 2013 (UPI)
Paleontologists say a fossil discovery of a small, speedy plant-eating dinosaur in Canada extends our knowledge of dinosaur ecosystems of millions of years ago....
Little kiwi and giant elephant bird were ancient relatives
May 22, 2013 (UPI)
New Zealand's pint-sized kiwi and Madagascar's now-extinct, but once-towering, elephant bird are related -- two offshoots of the group of flightless birds calle...
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