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This is more than bones and fossilized feces: the fossilized skin of this dinosaur found in northeastern China (Liaoning Province) even had a wound, and it is by now the best sample of dinosaur skin. The 130-million-year-old Psittacosaurus (parrot lizard) was a sheep sized beaked dino, forebear of the later more famo... |
17 January 2008
02:49 GMT |
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There are more described beetle species than all the other described animal species. And it is believed that there are even more undescribed species, by the order of millions, to be included into the beetles' Coleoptera Order, with 17 "superfamilies" and 168 families. Many will disappear before description, as w... |
27 December 2007
05:46 GMT |
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The blue whale can be up to 33 m (100 ft) in length and weigh 181 tons, yet its recently described ancestor was just a large cat sized deerlike hoofed mammal. The semiaquatic creature, called Indohyus, inhabited southern Asia some 48 million years ago, and has been described in a research published in the journal "Na... |
20 December 2007
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Bird flight has fascinated humans since ever. And by over 150 years, with the discovery of the oldest bird, Archaeopteryx, a vivid debate divides scientists into two camps: those who say birds evolved from ground-dwelling ancestors and developed flight by taking off from the ground and those saying that birds evolved... |
8 November 2007
07:11 GMT |
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Only few doubt that birds are just living dinosaurs. Besides clues like feathers and similar bones, a new research comes with novel proofs that dinosaurs did resemble birds. The researchers at the University of Manchester point in their article published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences ... |
7 November 2007
06:06 GMT |
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Melting ice has 'provided' us with frozen mammoths and even frozen people, like the famous Oetzi from the Alps, as if they were kept in a fridge. No wonder that melting glaciers in Western Canada, which recently reached a historic minimum, have unveiled 7,000-year-old tree stumps. The prehistoric tree stump... |
1 November 2007
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Imagine you find your grandma's jelly fossilized hundreds of millions of years later… Such an unusual find took place in Utah: the oldest till now discovered fossil of a jellyfish, over 500 million years old. Such soft-bodied animals rarely leave behind fossils, unlike animals with hard shells or skeletons (bone... |
1 November 2007
04:46 GMT |
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Your teeth pattern rooted within the first reptiles struggling to turn into mammals. A new fossil mammal species from the Jurassic era, during the full blown dinosaur evolution, reveals that the basic tooth pattern encountered in all mammal species today emerged independently at least twice in the past, and also poin... |
1 November 2007
03:48 GMT |
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Sophisticated techniques are needed to investigate living tiny spiders. But what about a 50-million-year-old one? Such a fossil has been "revived" in an amazing 3D imagery.Dr David Penney from The University of Manchester and researchers from Ghent University in Belgium described the use of 'Very High Resolution... |
31 October 2007
05:05 GMT |
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Living underground is not that easy, requiring some special adaptations. Just look at the mole's humerus bones. "When seen in the lab, they are nothing like the long upper arm bones of any other mammal," said Samantha Hopkins, a paleontologist at the University of Oregon, investigating the evolution of burrowing... |
29 October 2007
06:31 GMT |
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Mammoths are fossil elephants, closely related to the Asian elephants, from whose branch they split off 5.8 to 7.7 million years ago. They appeared in Africa where two species of mammoth lived 4.8 MA ago. A huge mammoth species, the steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii) roamed the plains of northern Eurasia during ... |
26 October 2007
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Dinosaurs may have been big, but these ones dwarf them all: a newly discovered herbivorous dinosaur from Patagonia (Southern Argentina) was 105-foot (32-meter) long! Based on the neck structure, the new dino seems to represent a novel type of Titanosaur.It was dubbed Futalognkosaurus dukei, meaning "giant chief" in ... |
18 October 2007
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It is the symbol of the huge carnivorous dinosaurs. Yet just one previous possible T. rex footprint has been found so far, in New Mexico, in 1983 and made public in 1994. Now, a second T-rex footprint could have been found by Dr Phil Manning, from the Manchester Museum, University of Manchester. The metre-square, thr... |
10 October 2007
06:08 GMT |
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This was a giant in the world of the duck-billed dinosaurs. It lived in what is now southern Utah, some 75 million years ago. The well-preserved skull reveals a muscular vegetarian, with hundreds of teeth and huge jaws. "It could have eaten whatever [vegetation] was in its way," said lead researcher Terry Gates, a pa... |
4 October 2007
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The Triceratops is one of the best known species of dinosaurs: the huge, horned, rhinoceros like beast, up to 9 m (30 ft) long, 3 m (10 ft) tall and 12 tonnes heavy. But the huge beast and its relatives rooted from dwarf, dog-sized hornless Asian dinosaurs. A new species of dinosaurs discovered in a Montana is the lo... |
4 October 2007
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Even if we may have separated totally from chimps 4 million years ago, new findings from Georgia reveal that 1.77-million years ago we were just little more than apes. The fossils of three adults and a teenager were dug near the Dmanisi town (Caucasus area) by a team led by David Lordkipanidze of the Georgian Nationa... |
20 September 2007
07:08 GMT |
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Unlike the present-day lizards, dinosaurs had a social behavior. And now the fossils of six young dinosaurs discovered together in a Chinese "nursery" reveal that these animals formed social groups much earlier than previously believed. "The find sheds light on the life of the beaked dinosaur Psittacosaurus and on th... |
20 September 2007
03:25 GMT |
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290 million years ago we couldn't speak of 'crime scene', but researchers managed to correlate preserved trackways of that age to two species of reptile-like ancient amphibians. Fossils of Diadectes absitus and Orobates pabsti were recently discovered in the Tambach Formation in central Germany. Close ... |
13 September 2007
06:13 GMT |
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This was indeed one of the most interesting species in our evolution: a mix between an orangutan and a gorilla. A new research shows that an extinct ape could swing from both branches and walk along on all fours. But it is not clear if this is just an evolutionary dead end or a key step in the evolution of the tree-d... |
10 August 2007
03:21 GMT |
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Do not expect the frozen mammoths found in Siberia to wake up and walk after being defrost. But a team led by Kay Bidle of Rutgers University has managed to bring back to life some fossil bacteria trapped in Antarctic ice at least 100,000 years old. The ancient bacteria started to develop metabolism and to grow when ... |
7 August 2007
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Some say life was brought to Earth by aliens. Beyond theories that seem depicted from a SF movie, it looks like early life indeed appeared in some extraterrestrial conditions. Geologists have encountered 1.43 billion-year-old fossils of deep-sea microbes, enhancing the theory that life may have originated on the bott... |
6 August 2007
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This fish is "older" than a living dinosaur. Its species appeared 360 million years ago and its ancestors gave birth to the land vertebrates, in a lineage that culminated with the human evolution. These extremely primitive fishes were thought extinct with the dinosaurs, till the surprise that came in 1938: a living c... |
30 July 2007
07:26 GMT |
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Today the giants of the Australian fauna are the red kangaroos: males can grow up to 1.8m (6ft) tall and weigh up to 85 kg (187lbs). But they are just a pale copy of the beast that once roamed the continent. Diprotodon, an Ice Age koala's relative, was as big as a hippopotamus! This was the largest marsupial eve... |
30 July 2007
05:39 GMT |
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Dinosaurs are regarded as the extreme beasts and totally dominating lords of their time, one of the highest stages of life's evolution. But fossils found in New Mexico suggest that dinosaurs required some time to get rid of their evolutionary cousins, the dinosauromorhs ("dinosaur like" reptiles) and turn into t... |
20 July 2007
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This is a "living dinosaur" amongst the modern fishes, thought to have disappeared 65 million years ago, at the same time with the huge reptiles. About 375 million years ago, its ancestors stepped on the ground evolving to the line that produced amphibians and after that reptiles, birds and mammals (including us). Co... |
16 July 2007
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The famous Lucy did not come from nowhere. She had a grandfather, and recently discovered jawbones of that species, dug in northeast Ethiopia, could explain more on a virtually unknown period of human evolution. The new bones were discovered in the same fossil-rich Afar region, just 20 mi (32 km) north of the site wh... |
14 July 2007
04:37 GMT |
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They may not be famous like Brad Pitt or Mick Jagger but they are the masterminds due to which you can enjoy Jurassic Park and all dinosaur-linked issues. And the Chinese paleontologist Xu Xing seems to be the rock star of this domain. "Three years ago someone said to me: 'You are in the top three in history in ... |
13 July 2007
05:43 GMT |
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This is our direct fish ancestor. Its extinct relatives had lungs and this fish is lobed finned resembling a leg structure. About 375 million years ago, its ancestors made the step to the ground evolving to the line that produced amphibians and after that reptiles, birds and mammals (including us). It has almost 2 m ... |
10 July 2007
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In North America there's Bigfoot, while in the Amazon we have the mapinguary, the giant slothlike mysterious monster, triggering shivers down the spines of almost everybody who lives in the Amazonian rain forest. And unlike Bigfoot, this monster has a fossil record. The folk stories abound in encounters with the... |
9 July 2007
14:46 GMT |
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Scientists have been trying for years now to understand how from an egg just a few times bigger than an ostrich the biggest beasts that ever roamed the Earth could grow. The fossil of a baby dinosaur that lived 140 million years ago could explain how the ancient beasts could have developed from youngsters to enormous... |
9 July 2007
03:41 GMT |
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Those Asians can ingest the oddest soups, made of anything: from the swift saliva nests to shark fins or dried frogs. In fact, it's no wonder, as they believe by ingesting rhino horns or tiger penis they would achieve the potency and power of those beasts (it would be much cheaper and environmentally friendly, w... |
5 July 2007
04:54 GMT |
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This is a strange coincidence: the oldest remains of a right whale have been found in the only country still hunting whales against the international law. A museum in Nagano prefecture (180 km (110 mi) northwest of Tokyo) possesses the most ancient right whale fossils, at least 5 million years old. "Researchers worki... |
5 July 2007
02:51 GMT |
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Classical knowledge says people started the earliest agriculture 10,000 years ago in the Middle East. But a new study shows that Native Americans could have started agriculture at the same time or even earlier. A team led by Tom Dillehay of Vanderbilt University has found 10,200-year-old squash seeds in the dirt floo... |
29 June 2007
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Most penguins are a little bigger than a duck, with some exceptions, but their prehistoric cousins were much larger and unlike modern ice-loving species, they might have basked in a warm beach on the Peruvian coast over 30 million years ago, as two fossils suggest. One species had a seven-inch (18 cm) beak, was 5 ft ... |
26 June 2007
04:58 GMT |
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A new primitive dinosaur species, Eocursor ("early runner") parvus ("small"), discovered in South Africa, seems to be the missing link in the dinosaur evolution. The small, agile plant-eater lived in the Late Triassic, about 210 million years ago, before the emergence of the huge Jurassic beasts. Eocursor seems to be... |
14 June 2007
09:22 GMT |
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An ostrich would look like an undernourished dwarf beside a huge beaked feathered dinosaur recently discovered in China's Gobi Desert. The ostrich-like dino weighed as much as a rhino (around 1.5 tons) and was over 16 ft (5 m) tall, being the biggest feathered animal ever and the largest toothless dinosaur known... |
14 June 2007
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Flying dragons were on fashion even before the advent of the dinosaurs.Paleontologists have just described a unique type of a new long-necked, gliding reptile found in 220 million-year old (Triassic era) sediments of eastern North America, in a time when dinosaurs were in the cradle. Mecistotrachelos apeoros (meaning... |
12 June 2007
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Amber is priced not only in jewelry but also by scientists, too: it can offer glimpses of past life that other fossils cannot, as it can preserve soft tissues. This is how Oregon researchers have found the world's oldest mushroom, embedded in a 100-million-year-old piece of amber. This is about 20 million years ... |
11 June 2007
05:26 GMT |
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Fossilized dinosaurs can be found in the most bizarre postures, like mouth wide-open, head thrown back and recurved tail, like in the case of the 150 million-year-old Archaeopteryx, a feathered dinosaur supposed to be a link between dinosaurs and birds. The classical explanation was that the dinosaurs died in water a... |
8 June 2007
10:20 GMT |
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Africa is the cradle of humanity. Our species appeared in Africa and the evolution of its ancestors took place in Africa. But now, researchers have found traces of one of the earliest Homo sapiens not in eastern or southern Africa, traditionally seen as the starting point of our evolution, but in the northwestern par... |
7 June 2007
03:22 GMT |
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Apparently, dinosaurs have been linked to the land. But a decade ago, researchers discovered the fossils of Suchomimus, a therapod (T-rex like) dinosaur from Central Africa, which 100 million years ago clearly fished with its crocodile-like snout. But all these are suppositions, as nothing about the behavior of that ... |
24 May 2007
10:32 GMT |
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Faced with some natural phenomena it could not explain, the human mind went wild and through imagination, misidentification, speculation or outright deception, fantastical mythological creatures appeared in cultures all around the world. But a new exhibition opening at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) th... |
24 May 2007
05:36 GMT |
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We all know that the Earth's day is made of roughly 24 hours (there is an error of few seconds, corrected in the leap year) and it is due to the Earth's rotation movement around its own axis, that exposes different longitudes to the sunlight during this cycle. But some old fossils came with a very puzzling ... |
7 May 2007
19:06 GMT |
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Perhaps this is the only food item that we could recognize in a time travel back to the dinosaur era.Researchers have found in Mexico the oldest lobster fossil in the world. The 4.7 inches (12 cm) long fossil was dated as being 110 million years old, some 20 million years older than the previously found fossil lobst... |
4 May 2007
04:27 GMT |
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Australia has been regarded as rich in dinosaurs as it is today in evolved mammals: quite poor, that is. But a new discovery sheds more light on the dinosaur fauna of this now isolated continent. Researchers presented on Thursday the bones of two 82 ft (25 m) long Titanosaurs. These are the largest dinosaurs ever di... |
4 May 2007
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How big can a mushroom be? A few tens of pounds and with a 2-3 ft diameter? That's small, compared to the largest one that ever existed: as big as a tree! A team at the University of Chicago and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., has come with conclusive evidence that one of the weirdes... |
23 April 2007
04:16 GMT |
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Before searching for the oldest penis, we must establish when it could have appeared. The penis exists only in those animals that have an internal fecundation, animals which lay eggs or deliver living offspring, but the sperm must fertilize the egg inside the female's body. The lineages that evolved internal fec... |
20 April 2007
11:16 GMT |
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Bones had already shown a tight connection between the carnivorous dinosaurs and birds. The discovery of the feathered dinosaurs further confirmed this. But this really tops it off. Scientists managed to compare fossil proteins extracted from a 68-million years old femur bone of an young Tyrannosaurus female to livin... |
13 April 2007
04:36 GMT |
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They may not have watched TV and drunk beer in America 7,300 years ago, but they indulged on popcorn, as a new research at Florida State University revealed. That's the approximate age when ancient Mexicans started to cultivate the base of their cuisine, 1,200 years earlier than previously believed.The team lead... |
11 April 2007
04:57 GMT |
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The classical theory says that Homo sapiens emerged about 100,000 years ago in Africa and about 50-60,000 years ago started to spread out of Africa, colonizing the entire planet. Homo sapiens would have wiped out all the pre-existent more archaic Homo species from Eurasia, and this way, our species ensured itself a h... |
3 April 2007
06:43 GMT |
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