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Early carnivorous dinosaurs crossed continents

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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. ...

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

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Dec 14, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 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 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 ...

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.

Good dentistry may have saved the dinosaurs

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 14, 2009 | 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.

BoarCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc, DuckCroc and PancakeCroc

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Nov 19, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (8) | 2

A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck's bill, have been discovered in the Sahara by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno. ...

Study on land plant fossils shows Paleoasian Ocean disappeared about 251 million years ago

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 08, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

A latest discovery of land plant fossils from Heilongjiang, Northeast China shows that the Siberian Plate sutured with the North China Plate at the end of the Permian, and resulted in the final closure of the Paleoasian Ocean ...

Ancient pygmy sea cow discovered

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Dec 14, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (6) | 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" ...

New technology helps scientists understand ancient fossils

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Dec 07, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1

Some of the world's oldest human bones and other ancient relics are studied here using some of the world's newest technologies.

Antarctica served as climatic refuge in Earth's greatest extinction event

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 02, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (10) | 0

A new fossil species suggests that some land animals may have survived the end-Permian extinction by living in cooler climates in Antarctica. Researchers have identified a distant relative of mammals that apparently survived ...

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