Category: Dinosaurs

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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Study pushes back dawn of multicellular life on Earth
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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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Spark of multicellular life two billion years old: study
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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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World’s Largest Dinosaur Graveyard Linked to Mass Death
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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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World’s Oldest Fig Wasp Discovered (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com – The world’s oldest known example of a fig wasp has been identified from the Isle of Wight.

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