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New Fossils Suggest Ancient Origins of Modern-Day Deep-Sea Animals
October 10, 2012 Fossils discovered in North Atlantic Ocean reveal ancestry of sea urchins and related ... > full story -
Duck-Bill Dinosaurs Had Plant-Pulverizing Teeth More Advanced Than Horses
October 4, 2012 A team of paleontologists and engineers has found that duck-billed dinosaurs had an amazing capacity to chew tough and abrasive plants with grinding teeth more complex than those of cows, horses, and ... > full storyMore: -
New Fanged Dwarf Dinosaur from Africa Ate Plants
October 3, 2012 With tiny one-inch long jaws, a new species of plant-eater has come to light in rocks in South Africa dating to the early dinosaur era, some 200 million years ... > full story -
Rare Find: Feathered Dinosaur Feasted on Flying Food
August 29, 2012 Researchers found evidence that a feathered, but flightless dinosaur was able to snag and consume small flying ... > full story -
Footprints of Cretaceous Dinosaur Found at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
August 21, 2012 About 110 million light years away, the bright, barred spiral galaxy NGC 3259 was just forming stars in dark bands of dust and gas. Here on the part of the Earth where NASA's Goddard Space Flight ... > full story -
Mountains, Seaway Triggered North American Dinosaur Surge
August 2, 2012 The rise of the Rocky Mountains and the appearance of a major seaway that divided North America may have boosted the evolution of new dinosaur species, according to a new ... > full story -
Engineering Technology Reveals Eating Habits of Giant Dinosaurs
July 16, 2012 High-tech technology, traditionally usually used to design racing cars and aeroplanes, has helped researchers to understand how plant-eating dinosaurs fed 150 million years ago. A team of ... > full storyMore: -
Fossil Egg Links Dinosaurs to Modern Birds
July 12, 2012 Researchers have discovered a series of dinosaur eggs with a unique characteristic: they are oval in shape. The discovery supports the theory that birds and non-avian theropods, dinosaurs from the ... > full story -
Newly Discovered Dinosaur Implies Greater Prevalence of Feathers; Megalosaur Fossil Represents First Feathered Dinosaur Not Closely Related to Birds
July 2, 2012 A new species of feathered dinosaur discovered in southern Germany is further changing the perception of how predatory dinosaurs looked. The fossil of Sciurumimus albersdoerferi, which lived about ... > full storyMore: -
Date of Earliest Animal Life Reset by 30 Million Years
June 28, 2012 Researchers have uncovered physical proof that animals existed 585 million years ago, 30 million years earlier than all previous established records show. The discovery was made U of A geologists ... > full story
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