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Story of 4.5 million-year-old whale unveiled in Huelva

Dec 15, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

In 2006, a team of Spanish and American researchers found the fossil remains of a whale, 4.5 million years old, in Bonares, Huelva. Now they have published, for the first time, the results of the decay and ...

Giant dinosaur footprints site discovered in April

Dino footprints enter record books

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 06, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (8) | 3

French researchers on Tuesday said they had uncovered the biggest dinosaur footprints in the world, left by giant sauropods that may have weighed 40 tonnes or more.

Possible dinosaur burrows clues to survival strategies

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Jul 16, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

Internationally renowned palaeontologist and Monash University Honorary Research Associate, Dr Anthony Martin has found evidence of a dinosaur burrow along the coast of Victoria, which helps to explain how dinosaurs protected ...

Fossilised pregnant fish was one of the first animals to have sex

Biology /

Feb 25, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (14) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A pregnant fossil fish at the Natural History Museum in London has shed light on the possible origin of sex, according to a study published in Nature today by an international team includ ...

Life is tweet: first bird had hearing like an emu's

High-tech imaging of inner ear sheds light on hearing, behavior of oldest fossil bird

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Jan 14, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

The earliest known bird, the magpie-sized Archaeopteryx, had a similar hearing range to the modern emu, which suggests that the 145 million-year-old creature — despite its reptilian teeth and long tail — was ...