News tagged with paleontology

Loud and lazy but didn't chew gum: Ancient koalas

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Dec 19, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Skull fragments of prehistoric koalas from the Riversleigh rainforests of millions of year ago suggest they shared the modern koala's "lazy" lifestyle and ability to produce loud "bellowing" ...

Researchers reveal ancient origins of modern opossum

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Dec 16, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

A University of Florida researcher has co-authored a study tracing the evolution of the modern opossum back to the extinction of the dinosaurs and finding evidence to support North America as the center of ...

Ancient pygmy sea cow discovered

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Dec 14, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (6) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The discovery of a Middle Eocene (48.6-37.2 million years ago) sea cow fossil by McGill University professor Karen Samonds has culminated in the naming of a new species. This primitive "dugong" ...

U of A students reaffirm the work of a 1920s paleontologist

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Dec 14, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

Three University of Alberta paleontology graduate students blew the dust off an 85-year-old dinosaur find to discover the original researcher had it right and a 1970s revision of his work was wrong.

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

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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 ...

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

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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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