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Researchers claim a third of dinosaurs might never have existed

Oct 13, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (20) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new ten-year study by US paleontologists suggests that up to a third of dinosaur fossils may have been incorrectly identified as new species, when they are actually juveniles of species ...

'Giraffe of the Mesozoic' Discovered

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Sep 08, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A creature dubbed a "Giraffe of the Mesozoic" has been discovered in China. The animal, with its giraffe-like long neck and long forelimbs is the first well-preserved Early Cretaceous brachiosaurid dinosaur ...

Prehistoric turtle goes to hospital for CT scan in search for skull, eggs, embryos

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Apr 15, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (7) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Michael Knell carried a 75-million-year-old turtle into Bozeman Deaconess hospital recently, then laid it carefully on the bed that slides into the CT scanner.

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Ancient pygmy sea cow discovered

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13 hours ago | 4.4 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The discovery of a Middle Eocene (48.6-37.2 million years ago) sea cow fossil by McGill University professor Karen Samonds has culminated in the naming of a new species. This primitive "dugong" ...

U of A students reaffirm the work of a 1920s paleontologist

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13 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Three University of Alberta paleontology graduate students blew the dust off an 85-year-old dinosaur find to discover the original researcher had it right and a 1970s revision of his work was wrong.

Fossils on the Edge of Forever

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13 hours ago | 4.9 / 5 (7) | 0

Astrobiologists have not yet found alien life on other planets. But the fossil record has evidence of aliens of another sort: the Ediacarans that lived on Earth millions of years ago.

Good dentistry may have saved the dinosaurs

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19 hours ago | 2.6 / 5 (5) | 1

Infectious diseases can be transmitted by sneezing, touching, or - for Tasmanian devils - biting each other on the face, a habit that may have driven the dinosaurs to extinction through the transmission of a protozoan parasite.

New discoveries could improve climate projections

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Dec 11, 2009 | 3 / 5 (3) | 0

New discoveries about the deep ocean's temperature variability and circulation system could help improve projections of future climate conditions.

Bones of T. rex to make museum debut in Oregon

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Dec 11, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex will make its museum debut at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry along the banks of the Willamette River.

Climate projections underestimate CO2 impact

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Dec 10, 2009 | 2.8 / 5 (16) | 2

The climate may be 30-50 percent more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide in the long term than previously thought, according to a recent study published in Nature Geoscience.

Early carnivorous dinosaurs crossed continents

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Dec 10, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Did the first dinosaurs wander across continents or stay put where they first evolved? The first dinosaurs evolved 230 million years ago when the continents were assembled into one landmass called Pangea. ...

Fossils shake dinosaur family tree

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Dec 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Paleontologists have unearthed a previously unknown meat-eating dinosaur in New Mexico, settling a debate about early dinosaur evolution, revealing a period of explosive diversification and ...