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Science & Tech News tagged with fossil

Study Of Oldest Turtle Fossil
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Ingrid
- 339 days ago - terradaily.com
With hard bony shells to shelter and protect them, turtles are unique and have long posed a mystery to scientists who wonder how such an elegant body structure came to be.
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Researchers Uncover World's Oldest Fossil Impression Of A Flying Insect
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Ingrid
- 382 days ago - terradaily.com
Tufts researchers have found what they believe to be the world's oldest whole-body fossil impression of a flying insect in a wooded field behind a strip mall in North Attleboro, Mass.
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Fossil of Most Primitive 4-Legged Animal Found
Science & Tech  (tags: prehistoric, fish, fossil, animal, discovery, science )

Catherine
- 499 days ago - livescience.com
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists unearthed a skull of the most primitive four-legged creature in Earth's history, which should help them better understand the evolution of fish to advanced animals that walk on land. The 365 million-year-old fossil skull, shou
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Fossilized Feces Show Earlier Human Presence in North America
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Little
- 584 days ago - boston.com
Fossilized excrement found in an Oregon cave has given scientists the hardest evidence to date that humans roamed the New World at least 1,000 years earlier than previously believed. The prehistoric poop, deposited in a cave some 14,300 years ago...
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New Fossil Is World's Oldest Plant-Eating Lizard
Science & Tech  (tags: fossil, lizard, discovery, Charles Darwin )

Ingrid
- 594 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
A rare fossil discovered in Japan is the oldest known plant-eating lizard, which could shed light on an evolutionary puzzle that Charles Darwin described as an "abominable mystery," scientists say.
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Earth's Ecosystem Has Been Complex for Hundreds of Millions of Years
Science & Tech  (tags: research, science, study, discovery, animal, Australia, ecological, ecosystem, fossil, Funisia, life, Neoproterozoic, organism, palaeontology, reproduction )

J.
- 597 days ago - newsroom.ucr.edu
Palaeontologists studying ancient fossils they excavated in the South Australian outback argue that Earth's ecosystem has been complex since around 565 million years ago which is included in a period in Earth's history called the Neoproterozoic era.
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International Team Announces Discovery of Massive Jurassic Marine Reptile
Science & Tech  (tags: research, science, Paleontology, discovery, fossil, Jurassic, marine, plesiosaur, pliosaur, reptile, specimen, Svalbard )

J.
- 612 days ago - uaf.edu
After months of preparing & conserving a pliosaur specimen excavated last summer in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard,researchers confirmed their earlier suspicions:the150-million-yr-old Jurassic marine reptile is perhaps the largest ever found
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Fossil Sea Monster Big Enough to "Bite a Car"
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Randy
- 619 days ago - reuters.com
OSLO (Reuters) - The fossil of a 15 meter (50 ft) long "sea monster" found in Arctic Norway was the biggest of its kind known to science with dagger-like teeth in a mouth large enough to bite a small car, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Fossil Sea Monster Big Enough to "Bite a Car"
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Ingrid
- 619 days ago - reuters.com
The fossil of a 15 meter (50 ft) long "sea monster" found in Arctic Norway was the biggest of its kind known to science with dagger-like teeth in a mouth large enough to bite a small car, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Giant Frog Jumps Continents
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- 628 days ago - terradaily.com
A giant frog fossil from Madagascar dubbed Beelzebufo or `the frog from Hell' has been identified by scientists from UCL (University College London) and Stony Brook University, New York.
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Tiny Dinosaur Fossil Is Found in China
Science & Tech  (tags: china, archeology, fossil, find, pterodactyls, discovery )

Jacquelin
- 636 days ago - seattlepi.nwsource.com
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 es
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Fossil of World's Biggest Bug Found
Science & Tech  (tags: Scientists, fossil, bug )

Brian
- 718 days ago - usatoday.com
This was a bug you couldn't swat and definitely couldn't step on. British scientists have stumbled across a fossilized claw that is of such large proportion it would make the entire creature the biggest bug ever.
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Scientists Find Fossil of Enormous Bug
Science & Tech  (tags: fossil, bug, enormous, scientist, ancient, scorpion, large, creature, bug )

Jean
- 718 days ago - breitbart.com
This was a bug you couldn't swat and definitely couldn't step on. British scientists have stumbled across a fossilized claw, part of an ancient sea scorpion, that is of such large proportion it would make the entire creature the biggest bug ever. How big?
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Fossils of Jellyfish Found in Utah Resemble Creatures of Today
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Linda
- 734 days ago - sfgate.com
The fossil remains of fragile jellyfish that lived some 505 million years ago have been discovered in the rocks of a Utah mountainside that once lay at the bottom of a shallow tropical sea
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New Giant Dinosaur Found in Patagonia
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, discovery, dinosaur, fossil )

Cathryne
- 754 days ago - uk.news.yahoo.com
Brazilian and Argentine paleontologists have discovered the largely complete fossil of a new species of giant dinosaur that roamed what is now northern Patagonia about 80 million years ago. The herbivorous Futalognkosaurus dukei measured an estimated
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