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A new study of fossils belonging to Majungasaurus crenatissimus, a magnificent predator that lived between 70 and 65.5 million years ago, suggests that the creature had little use of its forelimbs. Its arms were merely a decoration, as they were too short and stubby to be of any real use.
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12 January 2012
09:37 GMT |
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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
04:35 GMT |
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An analysis conducted on the fossilized remains of crickets and katydid that lived 50 million years ago revealed that these creatures evolved ears at a time when there were no predators to use them against.
Understandably, ears evolved as a defense mechanism in most species, allowing them to detect a predator while... |
4 January 2012
08:26 GMT |
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The Southern Continent is currently the domain of penguins and never ending ice fields, but things were not always like that. In the distant past, researchers uncovered, the forests of Antarctica were roamed by a multitude of dinosaur species. At the time, the continent beneath the South Pole was connected to Austral... |
22 December 2011
11:02 GMT |
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Investigators with the Antarctic Geologic Drilling Program (ANDRILL) say that their latest study conducted in Antarctica reveals a period of warming to have taken place on the Southern Continent about 15.7 million years ago.
The event did not last for very long, only a few thousand years, the team explains. In geolo... |
28 November 2011
05:21 GMT |
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With the discovery of a 3-million-year-old whale fossil, researchers also made an interesting discovery that left them puzzled. They say that the animal appears to have been plagued by a zombie worm that ate its bones. The discovery was made in Tuscany, Italy.
The worm belongs to the genus Osedax, which was previous... |
1 November 2011
18:01 GMT |
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A collaboration of American researchers recently managed to gain new insight into how land-based life evolved after the Permian–Triassic extinction event, which occurred about 251.4 million years ago. The team found that life did not immediately bounce back.
This event is widely known as the Great Dying, named... |
26 October 2011
03:50 GMT |
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This image shows massive tracks embedded in a stone deposit located near Navas de Estena, in Ciudad Real, Spain. The marks were let behind by massive ancestors of modern-day marine worms. According to investigators, these animals lived long before the time of the dinosaurs.
At the time when these marks were impri... |
14 October 2011
04:59 GMT |
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Researchers at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), in New York City, led by Ross MacPhee, recently returned home from Antarctica with a cache of over 200 fossils belonging to marine reptiles, fish, birds, plants, and maybe even dinosaurs, possibly the largest such collection ever. The team has been trave... |
23 September 2011
08:41 GMT |
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A new scientific discovery pushes the time frame when the first placental mammals evolved back an estimated 35 million years. This conclusion is based on the discovery of an excellently-preserved fossils that was discovered in northeastern China. Placental mammals are animals that have a placenta. This structure help... |
25 August 2011
04:34 GMT |
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According to the results of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that understanding the timeline of evolution is very tightly linked to the way we interpret the fossil record, and the molecule clocks of organisms we discover. The data was extracted from a new study of dating techniques. Some of the most im... |
24 August 2011
09:54 GMT |
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In a paper entitled “Fossil jawless fish from China foreshadows early jawed vertebrate anatomy,” which is published in the latest issue of the top scientific journal Nature, experts say that the key to the evolutionary success of vertebrates was the complex reorganization of their brains and sense organs.... |
18 August 2011
10:53 GMT |
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Paleontologists have recently determined that the end of the Age of Dinosaurs came about abruptly, in one fell swoop, rather than progressively, as other researchers suggested in the past. These conclusions are based on a thorough analysis of a single dinosaur horn. The issue as to whether the extinction of these gia... |
13 July 2011
07:24 GMT |
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When experts began excavations at an ancient dig site in west-central Colorado, they immediately started finding bones and fossils. With time, however, the dig grew so massive that the original team needed to call in reinforcements from surrounding areas to help with the effort. In the end, this turned out to be the ... |
9 July 2011
06:58 GMT |
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Marine biologists studying the planetary ocean say that communities of peculiar microorganisms and more complex animals could exist nearly anywhere on the ocean floor, not only at special locations. A team recently found such a grouping of lifeforms more than 1 kilometer from the Lost City.This is a landscape feature... |
7 June 2011
09:21 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that males belonging to two bipedal hominid species were more keen to staying at home, then they were to roaming the savannas. The study indicates that the females of the species were responsible for that. These discoveries were made in t... |
3 June 2011
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During World War II, a large part of the Peking Man fossils that had been dug up decades before went missing. Remains were already extremely rare, and so scientists were left without any real-life fossil to study for decades. But now, a canine tooth belonging to this species was discovered in Sweden. Researchers at t... |
17 May 2011
09:50 GMT |
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Fossils discovered at a site in West Texas reveal the existence of a previously-unknown primate species, that lived about 43 million years ago. This discovery could help experts develop better classifications of the way primates evolved from origins up to this point. The new primate species has been named Mescalerole... |
17 May 2011
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Trilobites, brachiopods, corals and other sea creatures can be found in abundance in rocks lying in a Moroccan desert. Experts discovered an ancient seabed at this location. The landscape feature is estimated to be about 400 million years old.This means that the lake dried out during the Devonian Period. When this ha... |
11 May 2011
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Unlike their more modern descendants, early marsupials were living in large social groups, a study of a mass grave containing fossilized remains of early marsupials indicates. The work sheds some more light on the behavior of animals that lived millions of years ago.The particular creatures that were discovered in th... |
9 May 2011
07:50 GMT |
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Understanding past climate changes is critical for modeling how Earth will respond to anthropogenic global warming, and now experts have just discovered a new way of figuring out what went on millions of years ago. The found out that studying sirenians gives them a clue of Earth's prehistoric waters. Investigato... |
22 April 2011
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While investigating the central regions of the Milky Way using an interferometer telescope, astronomers were able to detect traces of stellar fossils that appeared to have been produced by what could best be termed as cosmic intruders. These objects most certainly did not originate inside the galaxy, astronomers say.... |
22 March 2011
09:23 GMT |
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In an interesting new discovery, researchers found that a group of insects did not evolve at all over the past 100 million years. The group is the ancestor of some insects that still live today, and the research shows little differences between the creatures living today and their forefathers.The fact that these larg... |
9 February 2011
09:45 GMT |
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A group of investigators managed to discover the existence of a molecular complex in fossils dating back to the Paleozoic period, which spanned between 542 and 251 million years ago. This was thought to be highly unlikely until now. The researchers disproved conventional wisdom with this investigation. They showed th... |
9 February 2011
09:28 GMT |
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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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Analyzing fossils can yield a variety of clues about things that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, and about the origins and evolution of life itself. But actually studying the remnants is a very delicate process, due to their frailty. A new technique now eliminates this inconvenience.One of the most common... |
1 February 2011
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Experts announce the discovery of a never-before-seen species of dinosaurs that roamed in South American more than 230 million years ago, when the giant lizards were barely beginning to develop and assume dominance over all ecosystems. The finding was made by a collaboration of geologists and paleontologists based in... |
14 January 2011
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The Luoping fossil site in the Yunnan Province in south-west China, has provided valuable fossils that shed light on the way that life on Earth has recovered from the greatest mass extinction in our planet’s history.
The work is led by scientists from the Chengdu Geological Center in China and was presented ... |
22 December 2010
02:57 GMT |
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For the first time in western Mediterranean, a team of Spanish scientists have found fossils of Ordovician conodonts that were dated to between 446 and 444 million years ago. Discovering these prehistoric marine vertebrates (according to Clare Milsom and Sue Rigby), has allowed scientists to rebuild the paleogeograph... |
13 December 2010
08:13 GMT |
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In an isolated region in South Africa, there is a remote place very rich in fossilized remains, which have been extremely well preserved for the past half a billion years, and a team of geologists from the University of Leicester’s Department of Geology, found out how did all these fossils get there.Their expla... |
29 November 2010
06:49 GMT |
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After over 30 years of sitting in collections, a few extremely well-preserved dinosaur eggs containing the oldest embryos of any land-dwelling vertebrate ever found, gave new insight into the development and growth of early dinosaurs.They were found in 1976 in South Africa, and they are 190 million years old, dating ... |
13 November 2010
06:53 GMT |
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A new statistical model suggests that the evolutionary break-up between humans and chimpanzees occurred 8 million years ago, 3 million years earlier than what was previously thought.For decades, paleontologists agreed that humans evolved some 5 or 6 million years ago, and their estimations relied on fossils.The only ... |
5 November 2010
13:47 GMT |
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A joint research between scientists and researchers from the universities of Liverpool, Southampton and Calgary, found out more about the social behavior of ancient hominins by analyzing their fossilized fingers.They used fossilized skeletal remains of ancient apes and extinct hominins, and determined the levels of e... |
3 November 2010
06:11 GMT |
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Scientists have always thought that the Australia’s weird and mysterious marsupial mole came from an unknown desert, but the discovery of the first fossil record of one of their ancestors, showed everyone that they were far away from the truth.Living marsupial mole are blind, have no ears and live underground i... |
3 November 2010
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A team of scientists including Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, found the first complete skeleton of an ancestor of the largest land animals that ever lived – the sauropod dinosaurs, in China.The species is called Yizhousaurus sunae, it lived in the Yunnan Province in South China, some 200 million ye... |
29 October 2010
06:32 GMT |
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University of Bonn paleontologist, Professor Dr. Jes Rust and his colleagues, have found a huge deposit of amber on the coast of NW India's Gujarat province, which continues to give more insight on what happened millions of years ago.The researchers said that after analyzing some of the insects found inside the ... |
26 October 2010
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Members of an expedition of the Antarctic Institute of Argentina, have discovered ancient turtle fossils, dating from 45 million years ago, in the La Meseta Formation on Antarctica's Seymour Island.There are many things unknown about these fossils, like whether they belonged to a single turtle or not, and to wha... |
19 October 2010
10:40 GMT |
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Paleontologists from the United States and Canada have found traces on Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils suggesting that besides eating other dinosaurs, the behemoth also ate each other.Nick Longrich, researcher at Yale, was carrying out a study on dinosaur bones with tooth marks on them, and as he was looking through sever... |
16 October 2010
05:33 GMT |
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In a new series of scientific investigations, experts have demonstrated that analysis of the places where dinosaurs died and were buried can reveal additional insight into how the animals lived. Using the new approach, a team of researchers was already able to determine that the renowned predator Tyrannosaurus Rex li... |
13 October 2010
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A new dinosaur species discovered in Arizona suggests that dinosaurs awaited for natural catastrophe to wipe out their enemies, before moving into their territory.The research was led by Tim Rowe, professor of paleontology at The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences, along with co-author... |
6 October 2010
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Along the South American Pacific coast biodiversity does not decrease towards the poles, say Steffen Kiel and Sven Nielsen from the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU).Normally, biodiversity decreases towards the poles, but fossil clams and snails found in chile, suggest that this does not happen along... |
5 October 2010
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Studies suggests that some of the oldest discoveries made, and some of the most interesting conclusions derived from analyzing archaeological sites may need to be revisited, as they could be misleading.Researchers say that this may be particularly true for studies of the Stone Age and its cultures. There are some thi... |
24 September 2010
10:43 GMT |
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A team of researchers managed to identify a possible evolutionary root for the sunflower family, whose origins have until now eluded detection. The fossilized plant was discovered in northern Argentina.Experts who got a chance to look at the artifact say that it is more than 45 million years old, and that it may very... |
24 September 2010
08:39 GMT |
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By harvesting coral fossils that are more than 20,000 years old, experts hope to be able to paint a clearer picture of how global sea levels may have changed over time, and especially since the last glacial period. A team of researchers recently conducted an expedition at the outer fringes of the Great Barrier Reef, ... |
7 September 2010
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The latest discoveries made by paleontologists are always said to “rewrite evolutionary history”, but is this really true and mankind has learned nothing about its past?A few researchers at the University of Bristol wanted to find out exactly how strong is our understanding of evolution.The team led by Dr... |
1 September 2010
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Researchers are positively thrilled at the discovery of a new fossil-rich dig site, which is located very close to the famous Burgess Shale. If the new location yields just half or a quarter the number of creatures discovered in the former, than its finding could be cataloged as an important success. The Burgess Shal... |
31 August 2010
09:56 GMT |
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A team of investigators announces the discovery of a new species of dinosaurs that they say is closely related to the renowned predator Velociraptor. The animal appears to have roamed the European continent during the Late Cretaceous period. This epoch ended with the K-T extinction event (the K-T boundary), which too... |
31 August 2010
05:11 GMT |
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The Isle of Wight is one of the richest places on Earth when it comes to dinosaur fossils and a new study revealed that it was fires and floods some 130 million years ago that made this place so “popular”. When dinosaurs lived and walked the earth, the climate was much warmer than today and on the Isle o... |
24 August 2010
10:01 GMT |
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Biologists say that, while humans have been struggling to achieve methods of exercising mind control over each other, the animal kingdom has been doing it for millions of years. Scientists say that creatures controlling other animals' brains are not a new concept in nature. There are numerous cases in which... |
18 August 2010
07:07 GMT |
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A team of investigators may have just discovered the oldest fossils of animal bodies ever found on Earth, a finding that pushes the estimated time when researchers believe animals appeared on the planet to more than 650 million years ago.The discovery was made in Australia, and the team behind it says that the sponge... |
18 August 2010
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