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For years, experts have been discovering fossilized dinosaur footprints at a wide variety of locations, but these remains appeared to be exclusive. This means that only large prints were found, and no smaller ones. A new research now clarifies the mystery, opening the door for a new interpretation on those ancient ha... |
9 February 2011
07:07 GMT |
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A new research analyzing three sets of footprints from three different sites in the Holy Cross Mountains of central Poland, discovered the oldest evidence of the dinosaur lineage – fossilized tracks, and described them in this week's Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The research was led by Grzegorz Nied... |
6 October 2010
04:37 GMT |
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For a long time now, scientists believed that it was the reptiles that populated the continental interiors as they did not need to return to water for breeding, unlike amphibians. This latest discovery of lizard footprints conserved in dry river plains rocks, hundreds of miles from the sea confirms the theory.The liz... |
30 July 2010
04:22 GMT |
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Experts digging in the Zhucheng province of China have recently discovered what is arguably one of the largest and most massive troves of dinosaur footprints ever found. More than 3,000 fossilized tracks, belonging to several species, have been discovered at a site that has been under excavation for at least three mo... |
8 February 2010
04:18 GMT |
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Experts at the Southern Methodist University (SMU), in Dallas, have recently managed to electronically preserve a 110-million-year-old dinosaur footprint that was removed from its original location decades ago. The original tracks were excavated from their site, and taken to Texas, where they were built into a bandst... |
5 November 2009
06:11 GMT |
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Workers with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have recently discovered an amazingly well-preserved footprint under the Lod mosaic, one of the largest and best preserved ones in the country. The impression left in the background shows the shape of the foot and also the tracks left behind by what appears to be a ... |
16 October 2009
04:56 GMT |
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An international team of scientists, consisting of members from the University of Michigan, in the US, the Universidad de Buenos Aires, in Argentina, and the Iziko South African Museum, in Cape Town, South Africa, has recently revealed new clues of how dinosaurs moved down slopes. Apparently, in spite of their massiv... |
7 October 2009
04:55 GMT |
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On Thursday, scientists announced that 1.5 million years ago man's ancestors walked in very much the same way as we do now. The differences in stride are minimal, which means that the way we move at the present moment is, indeed, one of the most effective and energy-efficient in the world. The discovery that has... |
27 February 2009
03:34 GMT |
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For some 20 years now, Buddhist monk Hua Chi has been praying in the same spot in the temple he lives in. Over so many years, the soles of his feet have become perfectly ingrained in the wood of the floor, and have now reached a depth of 1.2 inches in some places. The monk is so devoted that he does anywhere between ... |
27 February 2009
02:34 GMT |
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The HTC Iolite has come to the front once again, following the unexpected leak of the company's plans for this year. While some images with the phone have already surfaced during the past few weeks, yet not the best ones, this time we get both some specifications on the handset and a clearer photo. Some voice... |
14 January 2009
02:35 GMT |
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In the desert between the Arizona and Utah borders, scientists have discovered a huge concentration of dinosaur tracks, with more than 1,000 footprints, embedded in a single rock that is unlike those around it, in that it's not made up of sandstone. Primary investigations concluded that the place was an oasis in... |
20 October 2008
05:48 GMT |
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The oldest human footprints discovered to date have been confirmed to be those excavated on top of the Roccamonfina volcano in Italy in 2003. The reason it took so long to confirm them is that the teams responsible for establishing their age had to use a dating process known as argon-argon dating, where two types of ... |
14 October 2008
05:19 GMT |
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