News tagged with bipedal
Dinosaurs hop, skip and jump into 21st century
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Dec 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dinosaurs have literally been put through their paces by a new supercomputer, allowing scientists to get closer to understanding how they once moved.
Mini Dinosaurs Prowled North America (w/Video)
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Mar 16, 2009 |
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Massive predators like Albertosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex may have been at the top of the food chain, but they were not the only meat-eating dinosaurs to roam North America, according to Canadian researchers w ...
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Lizards pull a wheelie
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Jun 13, 2008 |
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Why bother running on hind legs when the four you've been given work perfectly well? This is the question that puzzles Christofer Clemente. For birds and primates, there's a perfectly good answer: birds have converted their ...
Four, three, two, one... pterosaurs have lift off
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Jan 06, 2009 |
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Pterosaurs have long suffered an identity crisis. Pop culture heedlessly — and wrongly — lumps these extinct flying lizards in with dinosaurs. Even paleontologists assumed that because the creatures flew, they were birdlike ...
Chemists create bipedal, autonomous DNA walker
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Chemists at New York University and Harvard University have created a bipedal, autonomous DNA "walker" that can mimic a cell's transportation system. The device, which marks a step toward more complex synthetic molecular ...
Six-tonne T. rex quicker than Becks, say scientists
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Aug 22, 2007 |
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T. rex may have struggled to chase down speeding vehicles as the movie Jurassic Park would have us believe but the world’s most fearsome carnivore was certainly no slouch, research out today suggests.
1.5 million-year-old fossil humans walked on modern feet (Video)
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Feb 26, 2009 |
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Ancient footprints found at Rutgers' Koobi Fora Field School show that some of the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago.
Early parents didn't stand for weighty kids
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Apr 23, 2008 |
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Scientists investigating the reasons why early humans – the so-called hominins – began walking upright say it’s unlikely that the need to carry children was a factor, as has previously been suggested.
New analysis shows 'hobbits' couldn't hustle
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May 06, 2009 |
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A detailed analysis of the feet of Homo floresiensis—the miniature hominins who lived on a remote island in eastern Indonesia until 18,000 years ago -- may help settle a question hotly debated among paleontologists: how si ...
New findings solve human origins mystery
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Oct 10, 2007 |
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An extraordinary advance in human origins research reveals evidence of the emergence of the upright human body plan over 15 million years earlier than most experts have believed. More dramatically, the study confirms preliminary ...
'Hobbits' are a new human species -- according to the statistical analysis of fossils
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Nov 19, 2009 |
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Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using ...
Snakes and how they helped our big brains evolve
May 01, 2009 |
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The threat of snakes gave primates superior vision and large brains -- and fueled a critical aspect of human evolution, UC Davis anthropology professor Lynne Isbell argues in a new book.
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