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Fossils shake dinosaur family tree

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Paleontologists have unearthed a previously unknown meat-eating dinosaur in New Mexico, settling a debate about early dinosaur evolution, revealing a period of explosive diversification and ...

Early carnivorous dinosaurs crossed continents

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 10, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 0

Did the first dinosaurs wander across continents or stay put where they first evolved? The first dinosaurs evolved 230 million years ago when the continents were assembled into one landmass called Pangea. ...

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

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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 ...

Antarctica served as climatic refuge in Earth's greatest extinction event

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 02, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (10) | 0

A new fossil species suggests that some land animals may have survived the end-Permian extinction by living in cooler climates in Antarctica. Researchers have identified a distant relative of mammals that apparently survived ...

World's first skeletal mount of Paluxysaurus jonesi reveals new biology

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 15, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (11) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Early Cretaceous sauropod Paluxysaurus jonesi weighed 20 tons, was 60 feet long and had a neck 26 feet long, according to scientists who prepared the world's first full skeletal mount ...

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