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Early carnivorous dinosaurs crossed continents

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

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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 ...

Fossil bone bed helps reconstruct life along California's ancient coastline

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Jun 08, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 0

In the famed Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed near Bakersfield, Calif., shark teeth as big as a hand and weighing a pound each, intermixed with copious bones from extinct seals and whales, seem to tell of a 15-million-year-old ...

Nearly 50 new species of prehistoric creatures discovered in record time

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Feb 09, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 0

In just four years a University of Portsmouth palaeontologist has discovered 48 new species from the age of the dinosaurs - while other scientists took 180 years to identify the same number.

Ancient wounds reveal Triceratops battles

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Jan 28, 2009 | 3.6 / 5 (5) | 1

How did the dinosaur Triceratops use its three horns? A new study published in the open-access, peer reviewed journal PLoS ONE and led by Andrew Farke, curator at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, locate ...