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Dinosaur prints found on NZealand's South Island

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Scientists have discovered the first evidence that dinosaurs roamed the South Island of New Zealand with 70-million-year-old footprints found in six locations.

Ancient muscle tissue extracted from 18 million year old fossil

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Nov 05, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (9) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have extracted organically preserved muscle tissue from an 18 million years old salamander fossil. The discovery by researchers from University College Dublin, the UK and Spain, ...

Team tracks infamous conquistador through southeast

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Nov 05, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Archaeologists at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History have discovered unprecedented evidence that helps map Hernando de Soto's journey through the Southeast in 1540. No evidence of De Soto's path ...

Britain's oldest dinosaur to be released

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Nov 03, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- After 210 million years of being entombed in rock, the Bristol Dinosaur is about to be released, thanks to a Heritage Lottery Fund grant awarded to the University of Bristol.

Forest clearances sealed ancient civilisation's downfall

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Nov 02, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (7) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- An ancient South American civilisation which disappeared around 1,500 years ago helped to cause its own demise by damaging the fragile ecosystem that held it in place, a study has found. ...

Oldest known spider's web found in amber

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Nov 02, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (7) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pieces of amber containing parts of a spider's web have been found in East Sussex and dated back to the Cretaceous period 140 million years ago, which makes it the oldest spider's web known.

Notorious 'man-eating' lions of Tsavo likely ate about 35 people -- not 135, scientists say

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Nov 02, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

The legendary "man-eating lions of Tsavo" that terrorized a railroad camp in Kenya more than a century ago likely consumed about 35 people--far fewer than popular estimates of 135 victims, according to a new ...

The terrible teens of T. rex

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Nov 02, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 0

We all know adolescents get testy from time to time. Thank goodness we don't have young tyrannosaurs running around the neighborhood.

Team Discovers New Dinosaur Species From Montana

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Oct 30, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (8) | 0

A husband and wife team of American paleontologists has discovered a new species of dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago during the early Cretaceous of central Montana.

Bye bye 'Hogwarts dinosaur'? New analyses of dinosaur growth may wipe out one-third of species

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Oct 30, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (11) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Paleontologists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Museum of the Rockies have wiped out two species of dome-headed dinosaur, one of them named three years ago - with great ...

Did India invent the nose job?

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Oct 29, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (7) | 4

An Indian doctor working in 600 B.C. might have been the world's first plastic surgeon, according to a new exhibition that challenges Western domination of the history of science and technology.

The largest bat in Europe inhabited northeastern Spain more than 10,000 years ago

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Spanish researchers have confirmed that the largest bat in Europe, Nyctalus lasiopterus, was present in north-eastern Spain during the Late Pleistocene (between 120,000 and 10,000 years ago). The Greater Noctul ...

Giant Skull of 12m Pliosaur 'Sea Monster' Unearthed in England

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Oct 27, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (12) | 0

The fossilised skull of a pliosaur, the largest marine reptile that ever lived, has been discovered along the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.

Another Titanic expedition possible in 2010

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Oct 26, 2009 | 1 / 5 (1) | 1

(AP) -- The company that has exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic is planning a possible expedition to the world's most famous shipwreck in 2010.

Greeks uncorked French passion for wine

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Oct 23, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (7) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The bottle sitting in your wine rack at home is probably labelled as a juicy, full-bodied French number, with dark berry flavours and a long, complex finish.

Mastodon Tusk May Be Largest Ever Uncovered In NYS

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Oct 23, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research under way at the New York State Museum indicates that a huge mastodon tusk, recently excavated by Museum scientists in Orange County, may be the largest tusk ever found in New York State.

Ancient 'Lucy' Species Ate A Different Diet Than Previously Thought

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Oct 22, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (10) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research examining microscopic marks on the teeth of the "Lucy" species Australopithecus afarensis suggests that the ancient hominid ate a different diet than the tooth enamel, size and sh ...

Mummy's tooth yields DNA

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Oct 22, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (13) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A four thousand year old Egyptian mummy's tooth has yielded its DNA to probing scientists.