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The big tail that Tyrannosaurus Rex had, was helping it run much faster than scientists estimated, making it the fastest hunter of its time.University of Alberta graduate student Scott Persons, discovered that Tyrannosaurus Rex was not at all a slow Cretaceous creature, whose tail only served as counterbalance for it... |
16 November 2010
09:11 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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Midway is sending word that its upcoming Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe fighting game has gone gold and that the release dates have been nailed down for both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. In North America, the game will arrive on November 16 while in Europe, players will have to wait until November 21 in order to... |
6 November 2008
14:51 GMT |
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Nowadays, the seas belong mainly to fish and sea mammals. But during the Mesozoic time, the sea was a reptilian realm. There are very few reptiles living in the sea now compared to the times of the dinosaurs. 1.Today, there are seven species of sea turtles. They appeared during the Jurassic period (200-150 Ma ago), t... |
21 April 2008
11:26 GMT |
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Mammals evolved from reptiles, that's for sure. Primitive living mammals, the monotremes (platypus and spiny anteaters) clearly show this, via many traits, like egg-laying, bones, and... even their penises. But the reptiles from which mammals evolved no longer exist. In fact, if birds evolved from dinosaurs, the... |
19 April 2008
06:39 GMT |
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Bipedalism is a term coming from "walking on two feet" in Latin. Humans are practically the only bipedal mammals. Kangaroos and many rodent species hop on two feet but they cannot walk. When walking, they do it on all four. Other species, like apes, monkeys and bears, may attempt walking on two feet, but they do it o... |
17 April 2008
08:53 GMT |
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The tuatara is by far the oldest reptile inhabiting the planet, a living fossil that survived isolated in the New Zealand, protected from competition and predation of other animal groups. Surprisingly, a DNA analysis published in the journal "Trends in Genetics," carried out by a team led by evolutionary biologist a... |
21 March 2008
05:00 GMT |
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This seems to be the most extraordinary reptile of the seas to have ever existed. Measuring 15 m (50 ft) in length (as much as a humpback whale) and possessing teeth the size of cucumbers, the giant marine reptile lived 150 million years ago and it was first encountered in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago located ju... |
28 February 2008
02:47 GMT |
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Besides birds and bats, the only true flying vertebrates ever were a group of reptiles contemporaneous to dinosaurs, called pterosaurs. They were the first flying vertebrates (appeared 215 million years ago) that had wings make of skin similar to those of bats, but sustained only by one finger. Pterosaurs had the bod... |
12 February 2008
02:46 GMT |
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1.The name "dinosaur" comes from Old Greek "deinos" ("terrible") and "saurus" ("lizard"), and was advanced by Richard Owen in 1841. The dinosaurs emerged at the end of the Triassic, about 225 million years ago, from a group of reptiles called Archosauria. Archosauria was a sister group to lizards and they gave birth ... |
14 January 2008
17:06 GMT |
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1.It's hard to imagine that such a slow and weak animal like a hedgehog can kill a viper. A viper attack is a blind attack and a retreat. But against this attack, the hedgehog opposes an armor of spines. The hedgehog irritates the viper continuously and each attack on the armor of spines further wounds the viper... |
5 January 2008
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Ancient seas were dominated by huge monstrous reptiles, like plesiosaurs, marine reptile with flipper like members, similar to those found in modern marine turtles, but with very long necks, quite similar to the monster from the stories about the seasnake. They disappeared because of the same event that led to the ex... |
6 December 2007
05:04 GMT |
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1. The largest crocodile species is saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), encountered from India to northern Australia and Fiji. In can reach 7 m (23 ft) in length and 1 tonne in weight! At 5 m (17 ft) length, it already has 0.5 tonne!Even so, a crocodile egg is no larger than that of a goose!The smallest crocodi... |
3 November 2007
08:06 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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The ear of a fish does not capture the sounds in the air and the first backboned species that conquered the land were largely deaf, lacking the tiny bones that transmitted the airborne sounds to the inner ear. Evolved hearing was believed to have evolved just before the emergence of dinosaurs, about 200 million years... |
12 September 2007
06:13 GMT |
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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
04:50 GMT |
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