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 measured 1.5-1.7 meters (...
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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 Montealtosuchus arrudacam...
- Author:Leonardo Teixeira & Andrei KhaDate:02/26/08Click:7668 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:02/26/08Click:7668 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:02/26/08Click:7669 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, which lived ess...
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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 Carolina Agui...
- Author:ACE STRYKERDate:02/26/08Click:7668 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:02/26/08Click:7668 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 Nat...
- Author:RANDOLPH E. SCHMIDDate:02/26/08Click:7668 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 carnivo...
- Author:Julie SteenhuysenDate:02/26/08Click:7668 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:02/26/08Click:7668 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:02/26/08Click:7668 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...
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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 10 pounds...
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- 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:02/26/08Click:7668 Full Story »
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