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Study provides insight into nesting behavior of dinosaurs
May 20, 2013 (SPX)
A university study into the incubation behavior of modern birds is shedding new light on the type of parental care carried out by their long extinct ancestors. ...
New dinosaur species, largest ever, unearthed in Argentina
May 19, 2013 (UPI)
Scientists have unearthed several fossils from a new species of dinosaur called the Titanosaur -- the biggest yet discovered. Researchers from Argentina's Museu...
Life-giving elements found in prehistoric water: study
May 15, 2013 (AFP)
Scientists said Wednesday they had found life-giving chemicals in water at least 1.5 billion years old, which they are now combing for signs of microscopic orga...
Prehistoric ear bones could lead to evolutionary answers
May 15, 2013 (SPX)
The tiniest bones in the human body - the bones of the middle ear - could provide huge clues about our evolution and the development of modern-day humans, accor...
Climate shift killed Australia's giant beasts: study
May 07, 2013 (AFP)
Gigantic animals which once roamed Australia were mostly extinct by the time humans arrived, according to a new study Tuesday which suggests climate change play...
Dinosaurs were able to heal significant bone injuries, new study reveals
May 07, 2013 (UPI)
A new study reveals that dinosaurs were able to withstand and heal from bone-crushing injuries -- the equivalent of which would surely kill humans and other mam...
The Black Sea is a goldmine of ancient genetic data
May 07, 2013 (SPX)
When Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) marine paleoecologist Marco Coolen was mining through vast amounts of genetic data from the Black Sea sediment ...
Paleontologists identify new species of 'bone-headed' dinosaur
May 07, 2013 (UPI)
Paleontologists have named a new species of "bone-headed" dinosaur from Canada, so called for a domed skull above its eyes that was almost 2 inches thick. Two f...
MU Expert Analyzes Fossil of Great Ape
May 06, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers who unearthed the fossil specimen of an ape skeleton in Spain in 2002 assigned it a new genus and species, Pierolapithecus catalaunicus. They estima...
Finding Nematostella: An ancient sea creature
May 06, 2013 (SPX)
There's a new actor on the embryology stage: the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. Its career is being launched in part by Stowers Institute for Medic...
Feast clue to smell of ancient earth
May 03, 2013 (SPX)
Tiny 1,900 million-year-old fossils from rocks around Lake Superior, Canada, give the first ever snapshot of organisms eating each other and suggest what the an...
Dinosaur predecessors gain ground in wake of world's biggest biodiversity crisis
May 03, 2013 (SPX)
Many scientists have thought that dinosaur predecessors missed the race to fill habitats emptied when nine out of 10 species disappeared during the Earth's larg...
Canada's distinctive tuya volcanoes reveal glacial, palaeo-climate secrets
May 03, 2013 (SPX)
Deposits left by the eruption of a subglacial volcano, or tuya, 1.8 million years ago could hold the secret to more accurate palaeo-glacial and climate models, ...
Ancient bird fossil gives clues to evolution of wing shapes
May 01, 2013 (UPI)
Well-preserved fossil feathers have brought an understanding of prehistoric wing shapes in ways not possible with bones alone, U.S. paleontologists say. Researc...
What Happened to Dinosaurs' Predecessors After Earth's Largest Extinction 252 Million Years Ago?
May 01, 2013 (SPX)
Predecessors to dinosaurs missed the race to fill habitats emptied when nine out of 10 species disappeared during Earth's largest mass extinction 252 million ye...
The Earth's center is 1,000 degrees hotter than previously thought
Apr 29, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have determined the temperature near the Earth's centre to be 6000 degrees Celsius, 1000 degrees hotter than in a previous experiment run 20 years ag...
Unique Chemistry Reveals Eruption of Ancient Materials Once at Earth's Surface
Apr 29, 2013 (SPX)
An international team of researchers, including Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, geochemist James Day, has found new evidence that material co...
Fish was on the menu for early flying dinosaur
Apr 25, 2013 (SPX)
University of Alberta led research reveals that Microraptor, a small flying dinosaur was a complete hunter, able to swoop down and pickup fish as well as its pr...
Ancient Earth crust stored in deep mantle
Apr 25, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have long believed that lava erupted from certain oceanic volcanoes contains materials from the early Earth's crust. But decisive evidence for this p...
Pterodactyl found in China is most ancient to date
Apr 24, 2013 (UPI)
Pterodactyls, the now extinct genus of flying reptiles -- and part of the slightly larger pterodactyloids family -- is five million years older than previously ...
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