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The recently uncovered 87-million-year-old specimen of praying mantis is believed to be the "missing link" between the giant Cretaceous mantises and today's similar insects. While this is acknowledged to be truly a rare find, the importance of this discovery is yet to be evaluated. The fossil insect is 1.4... |
22 September 2008
08:16 GMT |
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Turtles are grandmas amongst present-day reptiles. And it's not only about their slower movements. They appeared 250 Ma ago, before snakes, crocodiles and dinosaurs emerged. But even the oldest known turtles already had a well developed shell. Modern turtles differ a lot from those early ancestors, but many rush... |
14 March 2008
04:56 GMT |
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Following the Paleozoic, when life started to get complex, the Mezozoic ("middle life", Secondary era) spanning from 250 to 65 Ma, was an era when reptiles were the rulers of the world. In fact, the dinosaurs were the real masters for over 150 million years. 1. Triassic (250-200 Ma) is named so because there are thre... |
13 March 2008
09:45 GMT |
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72 millions year ago, the Mexican beaches were not roamed by tourists and mariachi, but by dinosaurs. One of them has been described in the "Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology": a large duck-billed veggie dinosaur with a sail-shaped crest. Velafrons coahuilensis lived just 7 million years before the dinosaur demise. ... |
27 February 2008
05:37 GMT |
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Dinosaurs enjoyed their odor, as these ancient flowers exist since the Cretaceous Epoch (145.5 to 65.5 million years ago). They existed also in Europe till the arrival of the glaciations. But today, they are restricted to subtropical climes. About 60 % of magnolia species are found in Asia, with over 40 % growing in ... |
6 April 2007
06:11 GMT |
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In our minds, the word "dinosaur" is synonymous to huge. But not all the dinosaurs were enormous beasts. And perhaps the most interesting dinosaurs were found amongst the tiny ones. Dromaeosaurs were mainly small, agile, gracile bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs that inhabited Asia and the Americas during the Cretaceous ... |
24 March 2007
05:48 GMT |
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