Category: Dinosaurs

Baby Mammoth visits France

Baby Khroma, a baby wooly mammoth, will visit France this month. Khroma is one the oldest mammoths that have been unearthed which is still in excellent condition. The specimen will be displayed from the 16th of July at the Musee Crozatier (Crozatier Museum) which is in Puy-en-Velay in the Southeast region of France. A special Cryogenic chamber will house the mammoth where the temperature will be kept at constant -18 degrees Celsius.Khroma is about 2 feet in height and 5 feet in length and is suspected to be the oldest of all baby mammoths ever found. Carbon dating on the mammal has actually failed, which has led experts to believe that Khroma could be more than 50,000 years old.

However, Russian reports place the age closer to 32,000 years. Khroma was discovered in the Yakutia region of Siberia last year. The discovery followed the unearthing of Lyuba, another well preserved baby mammoth, in 2007 in the same region. Lyuba was estimated to be 42,000 years old and is currently on display in Chicago at the Field Museum.Khroma’s arrival was delayed by 3 weeks as there were fears that lethal bacteria might be present on the animal. According to Gennady Onishchenko, Russia’s chief epidemiologist, Khroma died due to Anthrax. Russian scientists conducted tests thereafter and gave it the all clear to go ahead. However, more tests were carried out in Grenoble, France where Khroma was subjected to gamma ray treatment which further ensured that any lethal bacteria present were destroyed.

    Fossil of mega-toothed killer whale found in Peru (Reuters)

    Reuters – The fossil of a giant whale called Leviathan for having teeth bigger than a grown man’s forearms has been found in Peru by paleontologists who on Thursday said it may have been the largest predator to ever roam the seas.

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    Fossil of mega-toothed killer whale found in Peru
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    Study pushes back dawn of multicellular life on Earth (AFP)

    AFP – Scientists unveiled fossils from west Africa Thursday that push back the dawn of multicellular life on Earth by at least 1.5 billion years.

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    Spark of multicellular life two billion years old: study (AFP)

    AFP – Scientists unveiled fossils from west Africa Thursday that push back the dawn of multicellular life on Earth by at least 1.5 billion years.

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    Ostrich Wings Explain Mystery of Flightless Dinosaurs (LiveScience.com)

    LiveScience.com – Ostrich wings apparently help the giant flightless birds run, explaining the puzzling phenomenon of why ancient dinosaurs evolved feathered limbs before developing flight.

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    Giant predatory whale named for ‘Moby Dick’ author (AP)

    AP – Scientists have discovered an ancient whale whose bite ripped huge chunks of flesh out of other whales about 12 million years ago — and they’ve named it after the author of “Moby Dick.”

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    Mammals Chewed Dinosaur Bones, Discovery Reveals (LiveScience.com)

    LiveScience.com – Squirrel-sized animals gnawed on the skeletons of Triceratops and other dinosaurs, leaving behind distinct tooth marks on the bones of these extinct giants.

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    World’s Largest Dinosaur Graveyard Linked to Mass Death (LiveScience.com)

    LiveScience.com – Scientists have revealed what may be the world’s largest dinosaur graveyard.

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    New hominid moves back date of walking upright (AP)

    AP – Scientists may have found the great, great, great, etc., grandfather of the famous fossil Lucy.

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    Robots Could Hunt for Fossils on Europa (SPACE.com)

    SPACE.com – If extraterrestrial life exists on Jupiter’s moon Europa, instead of deploying probes to drill past its ice shell to look for aliens in the ocean below, one might just go fossil-hunting on the icy surface.

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