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Canada's shores saved animals from devastating climate change 252 million years ago

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Oct 01, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (26) | 7

The shorelines of ancient Alberta, British Columbia and the Canadian Arctic were an important refuge for some of the world's earliest animals, most of which were wiped out by a mysterious global extinction event some 252 ...

Deep heat solution to 500-million year mystery

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 12, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (47) | 1

Scientists from the universities of Leicester and Cambridge and from the British Geological Survey have published new research in the journal Geology this month (November) shedding new light on a 500-million year old myster ...

Oldest Australian crayfish fossils provide missing evolutionary link

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Feb 06, 2008 | 4.2 / 5 (10) | 2

Crayfish body fossils and burrows discovered in Victoria, Australia, have provided the first physical evidence that crayfish existed on the continent as far back as the Mesozoic Era, says Emory University paleontologist Anthony ...

Origin of birds confirmed by exceptional new dinosaur fossils

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Sep 25, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (17) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chinese scientists today reveal the discovery of five remarkable new feathered dinosaur fossils which are significantly older than any previously reported. The new finds are indisputably older ...

Down Under dinosaur burrow discovery provides climate change clues (w/ Video)

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Jul 10, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (16) | 0

On the heels of his discovery in Montana of the first trace fossil of a dinosaur burrow, Emory University paleontologist Anthony Martin has found evidence of more dinosaur burrows - this time on the other ...

Giant Skull of 12m Pliosaur 'Sea Monster' Unearthed in England

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 27, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (12) | 0

The fossilised skull of a pliosaur, the largest marine reptile that ever lived, has been discovered along the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.

Climate Change Triggered Dwarfism in Soil-Dwelling Creatures of the Past

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 06, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (9) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient soil-inhabiting creatures decreased in body size by nearly half in response to a period of boosted carbon dioxide levels and higher temperatures, scientists have discovered.

Scientists Use Squid Ink to Draw its Jurassic Period Owner

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Aug 28, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (8) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists digging in Trowbridge, Wiltshire in England have uncovered the fossilized remains of a prehistoric squid-like creature that lived in the Jurassic period around 150 million years ...

Study on land plant fossils shows Paleoasian Ocean disappeared about 251 million years ago

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 08, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

A latest discovery of land plant fossils from Heilongjiang, Northeast China shows that the Siberian Plate sutured with the North China Plate at the end of the Permian, and resulted in the final closure of the Paleoasian Ocean ...

Researchers claim a third of dinosaurs might never have existed

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 13, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (20) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new ten-year study by US paleontologists suggests that up to a third of dinosaur fossils may have been incorrectly identified as new species, when they are actually juveniles of species ...

Darwin's Dinobird Fossil Analyzed at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 11, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (7) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A keystone of evolutionary history, the Thermopolis Archaeopteryx fossil, has come to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to undergo a revolutionary ...

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