News tagged with paleontology

Extinct New Zealand eagle may have eaten humans

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Sep 11, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (14) | 3

(AP) -- Sophisticated computer scans of fossils have helped solve a mystery over the nature of a giant, ancient raptor known as the Haast's eagle which became extinct about 500 years ago, researchers said Friday.

Decline of carbon-dioxide-gobbling plankton coincided with ancient global cooling

Biology /

Jan 08, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (12) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The evolutionary history of diatoms -- abundant oceanic plankton that remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the air each year -- needs to be rewritten, according to a new Cornell ...

Bye bye 'Hogwarts dinosaur'? New analyses of dinosaur growth may wipe out one-third of species

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 30, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (11) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Paleontologists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Museum of the Rockies have wiped out two species of dome-headed dinosaur, one of them named three years ago - with great ...

Crushed bones reveal literal dino stomping ground

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 14, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (9) | 7

Imagine the gruesome sound of bones snapping as a thirsty, 30-ton dinosaur tramples a heap of fresh carcasses on his way to a rapidly shrinking lake.

Paleontologists discover a new Mesozoic mammal

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 08, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (10) | 0

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA…An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of mammal that lived 123 million years ago in what is now the Liaoning Province in northeastern China. The ...

Bizarre new horned tyrannosaur from Asia described

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Oct 05, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (8) | 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 ...

Team Discovers New Dinosaur Species From Montana

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 30, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (8) | 0

A husband and wife team of American paleontologists has discovered a new species of dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago during the early Cretaceous of central Montana.

Preserved shark fossil adds evidence to great white's origins

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 12, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (6) | 0

A new University of Florida study could help resolve a long-standing debate in shark paleontology: From which line of species did the modern great white shark evolve?

Research backs legend of man-eating bird

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Sep 22, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A huge flesh-eating eagle that became extinct in New Zealand only 500 years ago was an efficient hunter that could attack prey 10 times its size, UNSW research has found, lending credibility ...

A misplaced dinosaur tooth may have been cannibalism

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 05, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- You don't have to be a paleontologist to suppose that way back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth chances were good meat eaters would dined on one of their own. Short of a time-machine trip back ...

Ancient wounds reveal Triceratops battles

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Jan 28, 2009 | 3.6 / 5 (5) | 1

How did the dinosaur Triceratops use its three horns? A new study published in the open-access, peer reviewed journal PLoS ONE and led by Andrew Farke, curator at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, locate ...

Mastodon Tusk May Be Largest Ever Uncovered In NYS

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 23, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research under way at the New York State Museum indicates that a huge mastodon tusk, recently excavated by Museum scientists in Orange County, may be the largest tusk ever found in New York State.

The last European hadrosaurs lived in the Iberian Peninsula

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Nov 05, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

Spanish researchers have studied the fossil record of hadrosaurs, the so-called 'duck-billed' dinosaurs, in the Iberian Peninsula for the purpose of determining that they were the last of their kind to inhabit ...

Paleontologists find extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass extinctions

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Arnie Miller, University of Cincinnati professor of paleontology in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, and co-author Michael Foote of the University of Chicago publish their research in the Nov. 20 issue ...

Archaeological study of ostrich eggshell beads collected from SDG site

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 07, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

Ostrich eggshell (OES) beads from SDG site reflect primordial art and a kind of symbolic behavior of modern humans. Two different manufacturing pathways are usually used in the manufacture of OES beads in Upper Paleolithic. ...