News tagged with late cretaceous
Arctic climate under greenhouse conditions in the Late Cretaceous
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 09, 2009 |
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New evidence for ice-free summers with intermittent winter sea ice in the Arctic Ocean during the Late Cretaceous - a period of greenhouse conditions - gives a glimpse of how the Arctic is likely to respond ...
Scientist Uses Tracer to Predict Ancient Ocean Circulation
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Even though the Cretaceous Period ended more than 65 million years ago, clues remain about how the ocean water circulated at that time. Measuring a chemical tracer in samples of ancient fish scales, bones ...
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Darwin's mystery explained
Jul 14, 2009 |
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The appearance of many species of flowering plants on Earth, and especially their relatively rapid dissemination during the Cretaceous (approximately 100 million years ago) can be attributed to their capacity to transform ...
Discovery of the oldest European marsupial
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Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of one of the oldest known marsupials have been recovered in Charente-Maritime by a palaeontologist team from the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (CNRS, France) and the ...
Cretaceous octopus with ink and suckers -- the world's least likely fossils?
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Mar 17, 2009 |
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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 ...
Oldest sea turtle fossil unveiled in Mexico
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Mar 06, 2009 |
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Paleontologists on Thursday unveiled the oldest fossil remains of a sea turtle that lived 72 million years ago in northern Mexico, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said.
Shell-breaking crabs lived 20 million years earlier than thought
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 22, 2008 |
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While waiting for colleagues at a small natural history museum in the state of Chiapas, Mexico last year, Cornell paleontologist Greg Dietl chanced upon a discovery that has helped rewrite the evolutionary ...
Researcher finds fossilized shell-breaking crab
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Apr 17, 2008 |
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While waiting for colleagues at a small natural history museum in the state of Chiapas, Mexico last year, Cornell paleontologist Greg Dietl chanced upon a discovery that has helped rewrite the evolutionary ...
Scientists Discover 'Giant Fossil Frog from Hell'
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Feb 18, 2008 |
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A giant frog fossil from Madagascar dubbed Beelzebufo or ‘the frog from Hell' has been identified by scientists from UCL (University College London) and Stony Brook University, New York. The discovery of the ...
Why certain fishes went extinct 65 million years ago
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Large size and a fast bite spelled doom for bony fishes during the last mass extinction 65 million years ago, according to a new study to be published March 31, 2009, in the Proceedings of the National Ac ...
Mini Dinosaurs Prowled North America (w/Video)
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Mar 16, 2009 |
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Massive predators like Albertosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex may have been at the top of the food chain, but they were not the only meat-eating dinosaurs to roam North America, according to Canadian researchers w ...
Fattysaurus or thinnysaurus? How dinosaurs measure up with laser imaging
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Feb 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Manchester scientists are using laser imaging to investigate how fat - or fit - T. rex and his fellow dinosaurs were. Karl Bates and his colleagues in the palaeontology and biomechanics resea ...
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