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Science & Tech News tagged with fossils

100 Million-Year-Old Relics Returned to China
Science & Tech  (tags: relics, fossils, archaeology, discovery, scientists, interesting, ancient )

Simone
- 54 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
U.S. Customs officials returned to China on Monday fossils dating from as early as 100 million years ago that had entered the country illegally. They included bones of a saber-toothed cat, a partial skull of a dinosaur and eggs of several other dinosaurs
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Extinct Walking Bat Found; Upends Evolutionary Theory
Science & Tech  (tags: Fossils, discovery, history, interesting, science, study )

Caree
- 92 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
A walking bat in New Zealand took its marching orders from an ancestor, a new fossil-bat discovery reveals. Scientists had long thought that the lesser short-tailed bat evolved its walking preference independently.
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When the Sahara Was Green
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Simone
- 97 days ago - ecoworldly.com
The discovery of ancient human burial site in Niger, Africa last Summer (by Paleontologist Paul Sereno, Univ. of Chicago) with graves possessing numerous artifacts and and even plant fibers and seeds, was indirect confirmation of what scientists have
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Frozen in Time: Dinosaur Herd's Mass Grave Unearthed - Mongolia
Science & Tech  (tags: mongolia, bird, dinosaur, fossils, grave, palaeontology, ancient, discovery, scientists, study )

Chrissy
- 237 days ago - abc.net.au
In the rocky desert of Inner Mongolia, an international team of palaeontologists has unearthed a mass grave of young dinosaurs. The 25 birdlike dinosaurs are thought to have died after getting stuck in a mud flat. The scientists say the find provides a
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Canadian Dig Yields Tiny Dinosaur - Canada
Science & Tech  (tags: canada, dinosaur, carnivore, chicken, teeth, fossils, paleontology, scientists, discovery, interesting )

Chrissy
- 237 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The smallest meat-eating dinosaur yet to be found in North America has been identified from six tiny pelvic bones. Hesperonychus was the size of a small-chicken, and used its rows of serrated teeth to feed on insects, experts say. The bird-like creature
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Oldest Sea Turtle Fossil Unveiled in Mexico
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Ingrid
- 247 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Paleontologists on Thursday unveiled the oldest fossil remains of a sea turtle that lived 72 million years ago in northern Mexico, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said.
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Fossil Skull of Giant Toothy Seabird Found in Peru
Science & Tech  (tags: Seabirds, ornithology, avian, fossils, Paleontology, Peru, ancient animals, evolution, biology )

Rooibos
- 253 days ago - news.yahoo.com
The unusually intact fossilized skull of a giant, bony-toothed seabird that lived up to 10 million years ago was found on Peru's arid southern coast, researchers said Friday.
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650-Million-Year-Old Reef May Offer Evolution Clues
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Ingrid
- 413 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
Australian scientists said Monday they had discovered in an outback mountain range a reef that was under water 650 million years ago and could provide fresh insight into early life on Earth.
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Ancient Trees Recorded in Mines
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Rooibos
- 426 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Spectacular fossil forests have been found in the coal mines of Illinois by a US-UK team of researchers.
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Oldest Gecko Fossil Ever Found, Entombed In Amber
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, fossils, gecko, amber )

Ingrid
- 431 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Due to the remarkable preservative power of being embalmed in amber, the tiny foot of this ancient lizard still shows the tiny "lamellae,".
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The Human Genome: 8% Tells Story of Victories Over Viruses
Science & Tech  (tags: human genome, retrovirus, evolution, disease, virus, cancer, genes, fossils )

RC
- 434 days ago - washingtonpost.com
The remnants of conquered retroviruses from thousands of years ago live on in our genes. Human adaptation defeated them & helped us develop our immune system. Scientists are now examining these fossil viruses for clues to modern disease impact & control.
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Fossil Fills Out Water-Land Leap
Science & Tech  (tags: Paleontology, fossils, evolution, adaptation, growth, extinct species )

Rooibos
- 499 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Scientists say a fossil of a four-legged fish sheds new light on the process of evolution. The creature had a fish-like body but the head of an animal more suited to land than water.
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Ancient Fossils and Modern Climate Change: The Work of Jennifer McElwain
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- 545 days ago - evolution.berkeley.edu
Dr. McElwain is a paleontologist who specializes in plant fossils. Her work relates to both mass extinctions and modern climate change issues.
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Even Paleoanthropologists Shouldn't Judge Books By Their Covers.
Science & Tech  (tags: Anthropology, research, discovery, Dentistry, fossils, Paranthropus boisei, evolution )

J.
- 557 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Analysis of scratches on the teeth & other tooth wear reveal the pattern of eating for the Paranthropus boisei, aka "Nutcracker Man,"an ancient hominin that lived between 2.3 & 1.2 million yrs. ago,was more consistent with modern-day fruit-eating animals.
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Oldest Human Ancestor Fossil Found
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, fossils, humans )

Ingrid
- 592 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
A small piece of jawbone unearthed in a cave in Spain is the oldest known fossil of a human ancestor in Europe and suggests that people lived on the continent much earlier than previously believed, scientists say.
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