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Ancient Lemurs Take Bite Out of Evolutionary Tree

Ancient Lemurs Take Bite Out of Evolutionary Tree (w/ Video)

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created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- About 40 miles outside Cairo, Egypt, National Science Foundation-supported paleontologists from three American universities are revealing features of a newly discovered African primate and ...


Antarctic Ostracod

Unique fossil discovery shows Antarctic was once much warmer

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created Jul 23, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (24) | comments 13

A new fossil discovery- the first of its kind from the whole of the Antarctic continent- provides scientists with new evidence to support the theory that the polar region was once much warmer.





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Ancient fossil found in Taiwan

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created May 27, 2007 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A fossil of a mammuthus molar has been found in central Taiwan.


Ancient muscle tissue extracted from 18 million year old fossil

Ancient muscle tissue extracted from 18 million year old fossil

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created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(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, ...


Montana man gets 60 days for dinosaur bones theft

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created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A commercial fossil hunter, whose discovery of the world's best-preserved dinosaur brought scientific acclaim, will serve 60 days in jail for stealing raptor bones from private land.


Fossil fish shows oldest live birth

Fossil fish shows oldest live birth

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created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A 380-million-year-old fossil fish that shows an unborn embryo and umbilical cord has been discovered, scientists report in the journal Nature.


A missing link settles debate over the origin of frogs and salamanders

A missing link settles debate over the origin of frogs and salamanders

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created May 21, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 2

The description of an ancient amphibian that millions of years ago swam in quiet pools and caught mayflies on the surrounding land in Texas has set to rest one of the greatest current controversies in vertebrate ...


Fossil linked to rare sound-making skill

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created Apr 26, 2006 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Duke University paleontologists say a 35-million-year-old fossil they reassembled suggests the discovery of a unique species.


Global warming wiped out the first rainforests

Global warming wiped out the first rainforests

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created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (20) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Spectacular discoveries of fossil forests show that global warming wiped out the first rainforests to evolve on our planet.


Ancient mother spawns new insight on reptile reproduction

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created Aug 27, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A 75-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant turtle and a nest of fossilized eggs that were discovered in the badlands of southeastern Alberta by scientists and staff from the University of Calgary and the Royal Tyrrell Museum ...


Discovery of the oldest known elephants relative

Discovery of the oldest known elephant relative

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created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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.


Cretaceous octopus with ink and suckers -- the world's least likely fossils?

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created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

New finds of 95 million year old fossils reveal much earlier origins of modern octopuses. These are among the rarest and unlikeliest of fossils. The chances of an octopus corpse surviving long enough to be fossilized are ...



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