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The way of the digital dodo

The way of the digital dodo

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The laser light glowed brilliant red, forming a moving line as it bounced information from the dodo’s bones back into the high-tech scanner sitting on a tripod on the Museum of Comparative ...





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Air-filled bones helped prehistoric reptiles take first flight

Air-filled bones helped prehistoric reptiles take first flight

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the Mesozoic Era, 70 million years before birds first conquered the skies, pterosaurs dominated the air with sparrow- to Cessna-sized wingspans. Researchers suspected that these extinct ...


Findings bolster link between birds and T. rex

Findings bolster link between birds and T. rex

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created Jul 13, 2005 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A recent analysis showing the presence of a very bird-like pulmonary, or lung, system in predatory dinosaurs provides more evidence of an evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds. First proposed in the ...



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