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Jaws -- 4 million BC

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created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

It might sound like a mashup of monster movies, but palaeontologists have discovered evidence of how an extinct shark attacked its prey, reconstructing a killing that took place 4 million years ago.





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Evidence Indicates Humans' Early Tree-dwelling Ancestors Were Also Bipedal

Evidence Indicates Humans' Early Tree-dwelling Ancestors Were Also Bipedal

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created Mar 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- More than three million years ago, the ancestors of modern humans were still spending a considerable amount of their lives in trees, but something new was happening.


Rare armor-plated creature discovered in Canada's capital

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created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists have unearthed the remains of one of the Worlds rarest fossils - in downtown Ottawa. The 450 million year old fossil preserves the complete skeleton of a plumulitid machaeridian, one of only 8 such specimens known. ...


New fossil amphibian provides earliest widespread evidence of terrestrial invertebrates

New fossil amphibian provides earliest widespread evidence of terrestrial invertebrates

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created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A team of researchers from Carnegie Museum of Natural History has described a new genus and species of carnivorous amphibian from western Pennsylvania. The fossil skull, found in 2004 near Pittsburgh International ...



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