Dinosaurs & Fossils
- Brazil finds fossil of crocodile 'missing link'
- RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - Brazilian paleontologists Thursday unveiled a fossil of a creature that they said is the "missing link" between prehistoric and present-day crocodiles. Called "Montealtosuchus arrudacamposi," the predator m...
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- Brazil finds fossil of missing link to crocodile
- RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian paleontologists said on Thursday they had found the fossil of a new species of prehistoric predator that represented a "missing link" to modern-day crocodiles. The well-preserved fossil of Montealtosuch...
- Author:Leonardo Teixeira & Andrei KhaDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- New species of prehistoric flying reptile found in China: study
- CHICAGO (AFP) - Paleontologists have discovered the fossil of a new species of tiny prehistoric flying reptile in northeastern China, a study released Monday said. The miniature reptile lived about 120 million years ago and was about the size of a s...
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- New Duck-Billed Dino Discovered in Mexico
- A new species of duck-billed dinosaur unearthed in Mexico is helping scientists fill in gaps in the fossil record of the Age of Dinosaurs. The creature, dubbed Velafrons coahuilensis, was a massive plant-eater belonging to a larger group of duck-bil...
- Author:Andrea ThompsonDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Crested beach bum dinosaur found in Mexico
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seventy-two million years ago, a dinosaur with a sail-shaped crest on the top of its head lived at a Mexican seashore, munching plants and trying to avoid a cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex. U.S., Mexican and Canadian scientists on...
- Author:Will DunhamDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Tiny dinosaur fossil is found in China
- WASHINGTON - As pterodactyls go it was small, toothless and had unexpectedly curved toes — yet scientists are welcoming their new find as another piece in the puzzle of ancient life. "We have this really amazing creature, sparrow sized, w...
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- New dinosaur species found in Mexico
- SALT LAKE CITY - A Mexican paleontologist was cleaning up after lunch with a group of schoolchildren she'd been teaching to dig for bones in northeastern Mexico when she found the dinosaur bone. "I was basically collecting trash," Martha Ca...
- Author:ACE STRYKERDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- A 52-million year-old fossil shows bats developed flight before sonar
- PARIS (AFP) - A nearly perfect bat fossil unveiled on Wednesday, has settled a long-simmering evolutionary debate: that the animals could fly before they developed sonar to track and trap their prey. Most experts had thought it was the other way aro...
- Author:Marlowe HoodDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Smithsonian to open butterfly exhibit
- WASHINGTON - A tropical garden is opening in downtown Washington, brightly colored plants, warmth and humidity, and hundreds of butterflies fluttering around visitors. Best known for dinosaur bones and a giant stuffed elephant, the Smithsonian's Nati...
- Author:RANDOLPH E. SCHMIDDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- African dinosaur duo ate like sharks
- CHICAGO (Reuters) - Fossils from two newly discovered meat-eating dinosaurs that lived in the Sahara Desert 110 million years ago paint a fearsome picture of life in Africa's Cretaceous period, which appears to have been teeming with unusual carnivor...
- Author:Julie SteenhuysenDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Fearsome Dinosaurs Found in Sahara
- From the sands of the Sahara, scientists have uncovered the bones of two new ferocious dinosaur predators - one that makes the kills and another that feasts on the leftovers. The fossils represent previously unknown species that roamed the Earth abo...
- Author:Clara MoskowitzDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Bats could fly before they had 'radar'
- NEW YORK - A fossil found in Wyoming has apparently resolved a long-standing question about when bats gained their radar-like ability to navigate and locate airborne insects at night. The answer: after they started flying. The discovery revealed the...
- Author:MALCOLM RITTERDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- Fossils of new meat-eating dinos found
- CHICAGO - Fossil hunters say they have discovered bones of two massive meat-eating dinosaurs in Africa. In the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and co-author Stephen Brusatte named one Kryptops p...
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- Scientists find 'Devil Toad' fossil
- WASHINGTON - A frog the size of a bowling ball, with heavy armor and teeth, lived among dinosaurs millions of years ago — intimidating enough that scientists who unearthed its fossils dubbed the beast Beelzebufo, or Devil Toad. But its size &m...
- Author:LAURAN NEERGAARDDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
- China says finds fossil of new dinosaur species
- BEIJING (Reuters) - Scientists have found the fossil of a new herbivorous dinosaur species that stood five meters (5.5 yards) high and lived 60 million years ago, the official Xinhua agency reported on Thursday. The large long-necked sauropod, which...
- Author:Emma Graham-HarrisonDate:06/28/08Click:0 Full Story...
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