The fact that species react to their environment through a wide range of adaptations is well known today. Another confirmation of this came in a recent study, where scientists showed that prehistoric predators featuring large teeth also tended to have strong bones in their forelimbs.
This is an example of a suite of... |
5 January 2012
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In a discovery that could also shed more light on the origin of naturally-occurring flight, researchers determined that the feather-covered, highly-intelligent Velociraptors most likely used their claws in a similar manner to how modern birds of prey use their talons.
Large birds simply grab hold of their prey, and ... |
16 December 2011
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In a strange twist, scientists recently managed to uncover the remains of a dinosaur that appears to have been killed off while searching for prey. The creature was most likely clawing at the ground, getting ready to unearth a buried “snack,” most likely a mammal. Dated back to 75 million to 80 million ye... |
22 July 2010
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Sometime in 2004, the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in China provided experts with the fossilized remains of a dinosaur that could not be cataloged. At that time, experts who had seen it had proposed that the creature was part of a new species, and their predictions eventually turned out to be true. The animal was named... |
29 January 2010
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This weird behavior was observed by biologists from Harvard University in a species of frogs known as Trichobatrachus robustus and is manifested by a break in the bones in the toe pads, forming a new claw-like bone which then penetrates through living tissue, probably as a defense mechanism. David Blackburn from the ... |
28 May 2008
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