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70 million-year-old dinosaur footprints have been found in various locations in New Zealand

Dinosaur prints found on NZealand's South Island

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Scientists have discovered the first evidence that dinosaurs roamed the South Island of New Zealand with 70-million-year-old footprints found in six locations.


Portable 3-D laser technology preserves Texas dinosaur's rare footprint

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using portable 3D laser technology, scientists have electronically preserved a rare 110 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint that was previously excavated and built into the wall of a bandstand at a Texas courthouse ...


Giant dinosaur footprints site discovered in April

Dino footprints enter record books

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created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 3

French researchers on Tuesday said they had uncovered the biggest dinosaur footprints in the world, left by giant sauropods that may have weighed 40 tonnes or more.


1.5 million-year-old fossil humans walked on modern feet (Video)

1.5 million-year-old fossil humans walked on modern feet (Video)

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

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.





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Dinosaur tracks attract a crowd

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 15, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

More than 100 people gathered in Kane County, Utah, to see fossilized footprints pressed into the sandstone by dinosaurs 185 million years ago.


Earliest evidence for reptiles

Earliest evidence for reptiles

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created Oct 17, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Newly discovered fossilised footprints provide the earliest evidence yet for the evolution of reptiles – a major event in the history of life. They are 315 million years old, making reptiles up to 3 million ...


Why do human populations differ? Fruit fly study aims to provide genetic answers

Biology / Other

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Charles Aquadro, professor of molecular biology and genetics, researches how fruit flies provide clues to humans' own genetic footprints of adaptation.


Ancient footprints open to public in Italy

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created Oct 09, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Italian researchers have opened two tourist paths to follow in the oldest known human footsteps at the extinct Roccamonfina volcano north of Naples.


Researchers find fossils of new type of European camel

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created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Spanish researchers said Monday they have discovered evidence of a previously unknown type of camel which lived in Europe six million years ago.


Ancient mammal tracks found at national monument (AP)

Ancient mammal tracks found at national monument

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created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(AP) -- Hundreds of tiny footprints left by mammals some 190 million years ago have been found on a canyon wall in a remote part of Dinosaur National Monument, park officials said Thursday.


Protection asked for fossilized footprints

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created Mar 27, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Protection is being sought for a 290-million-year-old New Mexico archeological site where thousands of ancient fossil footprints have been discovered.


First images of barnacle larva's footprint

First images of barnacle larva's footprint

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The fouling or growth of sea organisms, such as barnacles, on ships’ hulls causes damage costing many billions of euros annually. In order to prevent this fouling, In Yee Phang of the University ...


Facebook to keep profiles of the dead

Technology / Internet

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Death doesn't erase the online footprints that people leave in life and Facebook won't either, though it will make some changes.


Earth Day crowds leaving carbon footprints

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 23, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Environmental activists say many public Earth Day and other environmental events are leaving a trail of waste and carbon emissions.



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