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Brain structure provides key to unraveling function of bizarre dinosaur crests

Oct 16, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (34) | 4

Paleontologists have long debated the function of the strange, bony crests on the heads of the duck-billed dinosaurs known as lambeosaurs. The structures contain incredibly long, convoluted nasal passages ...

Fossil Discovery Turns Scientific Theory on Its Head

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Dec 18, 2006 | 4.1 / 5 (35) | 0

An international team led by University of Adelaide palaeontologist Trevor Worthy has discovered a unique, primitive type of land mammal that lived at least 16 million years ago on New Zealand.

An X-ray Time Machine?

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Apr 05, 2007 | 4.4 / 5 (32) | 0

There's nothing new about using x-rays to look at bones. But using them on bones a hundred million years old is another story. This week, a team of researchers visiting SSRL is finding that when it comes to ...

The personified disk unearthed in Peru at the newly discovered Temple of the Fox

Oldest Known Art and Agriculture Calendar in New World Discovered

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May 12, 2006 | 4.8 / 5 (29) | 0

In one of the most significant archaeological and anthropological finds in recent history, Robert Benfer, professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Missouri-Columbia, has discovered the earliest ...

Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found -- Discovered in Nevada

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Oct 05, 2008 | 4.6 / 5 (30) | 6

The fossilized trail of an aquatic creature suggests that animals walked using legs at least 30 million years earlier than had been thought. The tracks -- two parallel rows of small dots, each about 2 millimeters ...

A missing link settles debate over the origin of frogs and salamanders

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May 21, 2008 | 4.8 / 5 (28) | 2

The description of an ancient amphibian that millions of years ago swam in quiet pools and caught mayflies on the surrounding land in Texas has set to rest one of the greatest current controversies in vertebrate ...

Ancient fortress construction found

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Sep 20, 2006 | 3.6 / 5 (37) | 0

A section of a fortress constructed during the 1670s has been found in Norway, giving experts a rare look at something previously only seen in sketches.

Viking navigation hypothesis under foggy and cloudy skies requires more light

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Feb 27, 2007 | 4.2 / 5 (31) | 0

While history portrays the Vikings as skillful masters of the sea, sailing treacherous routes in the northern Atlantic Ocean during the 10th-13th centuries, just how much knowledge, technology and ability they ...

2 explosive evolutionary events shaped early history of multicellular life

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Jan 03, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (29) | 0

Scientists have known for some time that most major groups of complex animals appeared in the fossils record during the Cambrian Explosion, a seemingly rapid evolutionary event that occurred 542 million years ...

Dinosaur Fossil Shows Signs of Early Flight Mechan

Height or flight? Fossil answers some questions about evolution of flight in dinosaurs, raises others

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Sep 06, 2007 | 4.4 / 5 (29) | 0

Paleontologists have long theorized that miniaturization was one of the last stages in the long series of changes required in order for dinosaurs to make the evolutionary “leap” to take flight and so become ...

Unlocking the Maya Code

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Apr 04, 2008 | 4 / 5 (32) | 0

Think of Megan O’Neil’s scholarly work as forensic art history. She’s not looking to solve crimes, although she uncovers plenty of murder and mayhem.

'Cursus' is older than Stonehenge

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Jun 10, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (29) | 1

Archeologists have come a step closer to solving the 285-year-old riddle of an ancient monument thought to be a precursor to Stonehenge.

Scientists Discover 'Giant Fossil Frog from Hell'

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Feb 18, 2008 | 4.7 / 5 (27) | 0

A giant frog fossil from Madagascar dubbed Beelzebufo or ‘the frog from Hell' has been identified by scientists from UCL (University College London) and Stony Brook University, New York. The discovery of the ...

Toothy dinosaur newest to come out of southern Utah

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Oct 03, 2007 | 4.7 / 5 (27) | 0

The newest dinosaur species to emerge from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument had some serious bite, according to researchers from the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah.