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Earliest animals lived in a lake environment, research shows
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Jul 27, 2009 |
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Evidence for life on Earth stretches back billions of years, with simple single-celled organisms like bacteria dominating the record. When multi-celled animal life appeared on the planet after 3 billion years ...
Early whales gave birth on land, fossil find reveals (Video)
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Feb 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two newly described fossil whales---a pregnant female and a male of the same species--reveal how primitive whales gave birth and provide new insights into how whales made the transition from ...
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Ethiopia's climate 27 million years ago had higher rainfall, warmer soil
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Thirty million years ago, before Ethiopia's mountainous highlands split and the Great Rift Valley formed, the tropical zone had warmer soil temperatures, higher rainfall and different atmospheric circulation patterns than ...
Fossil linked to rare sound-making skill
Apr 26, 2006 |
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Duke University paleontologists say a 35-million-year-old fossil they reassembled suggests the discovery of a unique species.
Geologists solve ancient mystery
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Feb 19, 2008 |
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Geologists at the University of Leicester have solved a puzzle found in rocks half a billion years old.
Discovery of the oldest known elephant relative
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Jul 08, 2009 |
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Emmanuel Gheerbrant, paleontologist at the Paris Museum (France), discovered one of the oldest modern ungulates related to the elephant order. The study is published in the PNAS journal.
Protection asked for fossilized footprints
Mar 27, 2006 |
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Protection is being sought for a 290-million-year-old New Mexico archeological site where thousands of ancient fossil footprints have been discovered.
Fossil shelved for a century reworks carnivore family tree
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Dec 22, 2009 |
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More than a hundred years after its discovery, the limbs and vertebrae of a fossil have been pulled off the shelf at the American Museum of Natural History to revise the view of early carnivore lifestyles. ...
Forest birds evolved early, DNA shows
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Jul 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Evolution seems to have happened in fits and starts -- at least that's what the fossil record shows. From trilobites to pterodactyls, ammonites to Archaeopteryx, scientists find the same pattern: ...
Bones of T. rex to make museum debut in Oregon
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Dec 11, 2009 |
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(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.
Preserved shark fossil adds evidence to great white's origins
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Mar 12, 2009 |
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A new University of Florida study could help resolve a long-standing debate in shark paleontology: From which line of species did the modern great white shark evolve?
Ancient muscle tissue extracted from 18 million year old fossil
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Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have extracted organically preserved muscle tissue from an 18 million years old salamander fossil. The discovery by researchers from University College Dublin, the UK and Spain, ...
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