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Science & Tech News tagged with paleontology

Mammoths Driven To Extinction By Humans? Is That Hard To Believe?
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, mammoth, extinction, humans, science, paleontology, research, investigation, humans, interesting, discovery, environment, archaeology, study, habitat, nature, globalwarming, climatechange )

Tom
- 198 days ago - gliving.com
If you think animal extinction due to climate change is a new phenomenon, think again. Take for example the woolly mammoth. It's long been accepted that this ancient creature was driven into smaller and smaller habitats by the earth's rising temperatures.
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Canadian Dig Yields Tiny Dinosaur - Canada
Science & Tech  (tags: canada, dinosaur, carnivore, chicken, teeth, fossils, paleontology, scientists, discovery, interesting )

Chrissy
- 267 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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Fossil Skull of Giant Toothy Seabird Found in Peru
Science & Tech  (tags: Seabirds, ornithology, avian, fossils, Paleontology, Peru, ancient animals, evolution, biology )

Rooibos
- 283 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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Scientists Find a Missing Link
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, ancient, scientists, dinosaurs, feathers, evolution, china, paleontology, birds, birdlike dinosaurs )

Chris
- 319 days ago - popsci.com.au
A new fossil sheds light on the evolution of feathers and a rare group of dinosaurs
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Ancient Trees Recorded in Mines
Science & Tech  (tags: Paleontology, fossils, trees, woods, extinct species, buries forests, coal, climate change )

Rooibos
- 456 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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Fossil Feathers Reveal Their Hues
Science & Tech  (tags: Paleontology, ornithology, avian species, extinct species, feathers, feather colour, genetics, feather structure, flight, birds )

Rooibos
- 517 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The complex coloured plumage of extinct birds which once soared over the heads of dinosaurs could soon be revealed
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Ancient Hair Reveals Origins of Early Greenlanders
Science & Tech  (tags: culture, society, history, archeology, paleontology, anthropology, study, research, science, scientists, society, investigation, interesting, humans, environment, habitat, history, discovery, concept, ancient, archaeology, climate )


- 528 days ago - blogs.discovermagazine.com
A clump of hair that lay frozen in the Greenland tundra for 4,000 years has yielded DNA from the earliest Arctic residents, and offers clues to their origins.
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Fossil Fills Out Water-Land Leap
Science & Tech  (tags: Paleontology, fossils, evolution, adaptation, growth, extinct species )

Rooibos
- 529 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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Fossil of Most Primitive 4-Legged Creature Found
Science & Tech  (tags: Paleontology, quadriped, evolution, adaptation, extinct species )

Rooibos
- 531 days ago - news.yahoo.com
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.
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Fossilized Burrows 245 Million Years Old Suggest Lizard-Like Creatures In Antarctica
Science & Tech  (tags: Zoology, Paleontology )

Ian
- 548 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Despite the absence of fossil bones, the burrows' relatively small size prompted Sidor to speculate that their owners might have been small lizardlike reptiles called Procolophonids or an early mammal relative called Thrinaxodon.
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Ancient Fossils and Modern Climate Change: The Work of Jennifer McElwain
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- 575 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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Scientists Discover 356 Animal Inclusions Trapped In Opaque Amber 100 Million Years Old
Science & Tech  (tags: Paleontology, amber, cretaceous, discovery )

Ingrid
- 615 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Paleontologists from the University of Rennes (France) and the ESRF have found the presence of 356 animal inclusions in completely opaque amber from mid-Cretaceous sites of Charentes (France).
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Ancient Sea Reptile From Alberta Oilsands Yields Research Bounty
Science & Tech  (tags: reptiles, fossils, paleontology, science, scientists, discovery, interesting )

John
- 628 days ago - cbc.ca
A reptile that once prowled the seas where Alberta's oilsands now sit has been named after a paleontologist who studied prehistoric ocean life. In a paper that formally describes the carnivorous aquatic predator, paleontologists from the University of
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Dinosaur In Flesh
Science & Tech  (tags: dinosaur, paleontologist, paleontology, fossils )

Ben
- 631 days ago - blogmyway.org
Usually, the paleontologists could only find pieces of bones belong to unearthed dead dinosaurs. Well folks, on other three occasions, paleontologists were extremely lucky to unearth dinosaurs with intact fossil skins. Once again, paleontologists struck
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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.
- 643 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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