News tagged with fossil teeth
Scientists study hands of fearsome, meat-eating dinosaur
(PhysOrg.com) -- 66 million years ago, the fearsome, meat-eating dinosaur Majungasaurus crenatissimus prowled the semi-arid lowlands of Madagascar. Its powerful jaws bristled with bladelike teeth, and its st ...
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Jan 11, 2012 |
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Ancient meat-loving predators survived for 35 million years
A species of ancient predator with saw-like teeth, sleek bodies and a voracious appetite for meat survived a major extinction at a time when the distant relatives of mammals ruled the earth.
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Dec 06, 2011 |
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New evidence for the earliest modern humans in Europe
The timing, process and archeology of the peopling of Europe by early modern humans have been actively debated for more than a century. Reassessment of the anatomy and dating of a fragmentary upper jaw with ...
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Nov 02, 2011 |
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Teeth study shows big dinosaurs trekked for food
What did giant plant-munching dinosaurs do when they couldn't find enough to eat in the parched American West? They hit the road. An analysis of fossilized teeth adds further evidence that the long-necked ...
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Oct 26, 2011 |
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Not just skin deep -- CT study of early humans reveals evolutionary relationships
CT scans of fossil skull fragments may help researchers settle a long-standing debate about the evolution of Africa's Australopithecus, a key ancestor of modern humans that died out some 1.4 million years ...
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Sep 19, 2011 |
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Officials say beaver teeth are 7 million years old
(AP) -- The Bureau of Land Management says a fossil found by employees on federal land represents the earliest record of living beavers in North America.
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Sep 19, 2011 |
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Archaeopteryx and the dinosaur-bird family tree
The magpie-sized Archaeopteryx had bird and dinosaur features and helped show that birds evolved from dinosaurs. However, recent research in the journal Nature questions its position in the dinosaur-bird family ...
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Sep 15, 2011 |
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Tiny teeth are new mouse species, a rare 'living fossil'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny fossil teeth discovered in Inner Mongolia are a new species of birch mouse, indicating that ancestors of the small rodent are much older than previously reported, according to paleontologist ...
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May 24, 2011 |
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The peculiar feeding mechanism of the first vertebrates
A fang-like tooth on double upper lips, spiny teeth on the tongue and a pulley-like mechanism to move the tongue backwards and forwards -- this bizarre bite belongs to a conodont and, thanks to fresh fossil ...
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May 19, 2011 |
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Weird Australian hammer-tooth marsupial fossil found
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils of bizarre lizard-like, snail-eating marsupials have been discovered by UNSW palaeontologists in an ancient fossil field in the Riversleigh World Heritage area in Queensland. The fossils ...
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Apr 20, 2011 |
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New research suggests right-handedness prevailed 500,000 years ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by University of Kansas professor David Frayer shows that distinctive markings on fossilized teeth correlate to the right or left-handedness of individual prehistoric humans.
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Apr 19, 2011 |
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When African animals hit the hay: Fossil teeth show who ate what and when as grasses emerged
Fossil teeth of African animals show that during the past 10 million years, different plant-eating critters began grazing on grass at different times as many switched from a salad-bar diet of tree leaves and ...
Apr 04, 2011 |
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Archaeologists discover saber-toothed vegetarian
Surprised scientists have discovered the remains of a saber-toothed vegetarian.
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Mar 24, 2011 |
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Ancient teeth raise new questions about the origins of modern man
Eight small teeth found in a cave near Rosh Haain, central Israel, are raising big questions about the earliest existence of humans and where we may have originated, says Binghamton University anthropologist ...
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Feb 09, 2011 |
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Scientist describes toothy microfossils
They had rows of sharp, interlocking conical teeth that, while not affixed to a jaw like we know, would rake prey into their mouths kind of like the creature in the movie "Alien."
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Oct 29, 2010 |
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