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Komodo dragon attacks terrorize Indonesia villages (AP)

Komodo dragon attacks terrorize Indonesia villages

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Komodo dragons have shark-like teeth and poisonous venom that can kill a person within hours of a bite. Yet villagers who have lived for generations alongside the world's largest lizard were not afraid ...


New piece in the jigsaw puzzle of human origins

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

In an article in today's Nature, Uppsala researcher Martin Brazeau describes the skull and jaws of a fish that lived about 410 million years ago. The study may give important clues to the origin of jawed vertebrates, and th ...


Marine Worm

Marine worm's jaws say 'cutting-edge new aerospace materials'

Chemistry /

created Jul 14, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (31) | comments 6

Researchers in California and New Hampshire report the first detailed characterization of the protein composition of the hard, fang-like jaws of a common marine worm. Their work could lead to the design of ...





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BoarCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc, DuckCroc and PancakeCroc

BoarCroc, RatCroc, DogCroc, DuckCroc and PancakeCroc

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2

A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck's bill, have been discovered in the Sahara by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno. ...


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Male sabertoothed cats were pussycats compared to macho lions

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Despite their fearsome fangs, male sabertoothed cats may have been less aggressive than many of their feline cousins, says a new study of male-female size differences in extinct big cats.


T.rex's oldest ancestor identified

T.rex's oldest ancestor identified

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of the oldest-known relative of T.rex have been identified, more than 100 years after being pulled out of a Gloucestershire reservoir, according to research published in the Zoological Jo ...


Giant Skull of Pliosaur 'Sea Monster' Unearthed in England

Giant Skull of 12m Pliosaur 'Sea Monster' Unearthed in England

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

The fossilised skull of a pliosaur, the largest marine reptile that ever lived, has been discovered along the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.


New type of flying reptile discovered

'Missing link' pterosaur found in China

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created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international group of researchers from the University of Leicester (UK), and the Geological Institute, Beijing (China) have identified a new type of flying reptile - providing the first ...


Bizarre new horned tyrannosaur from Asia described

Bizarre new horned tyrannosaur from Asia described

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Now, just a few weeks after tiny, early Raptorex kriegsteini was unveiled, a new wrench has been thrown into the family tree of the tyrannosaurs. The new Alioramus altai—a horned, long-snouted, gracile cousi ...


Was mighty T.rex 'Sue' felled by a lowly parasite?

Was mighty T.rex 'Sue' felled by a lowly parasite?

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When pondering the demise of a famous dinosaur such as 'Sue,' the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex whose fossilized remains are a star attraction of the Field Museum in Chicago, it is hard to avo ...


UAB research team saves turtle species on the brink

Research team saves turtle species on the brink (w/ Video)

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers exploring strategies for conserving the Diamondback Terrapin along Alabama's Dauphin Island coastline are working to keep the once-celebrated turtle off ...


Clues to gigantism provided by family in Borneo Mountains

Clues to gigantism provided by family in Borneo Mountains

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An indigenous family living in a mountainous area of Malaysian Borneo helped Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers to discover information about genetic mutations associated with acromegaly, a form ...


Tiny robots get a grip on nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- How do you handle the tiny components needed for constructing nanoscale devices? A European consortium has built two microrobotic demonstrators that can automatically pick up and install carbon nanotubes ...



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