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Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found Show Animals Walking 30 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
The fossilized trail of an
aquatic creature suggests
that animals walked using
legs at least 30 million
years earlier than had been
... > full story
Canada's Shores Saved Animals From Devastating Climate Change 252 Million Years Ago
Scientists have solved part
of the mystery of where
marine organisms that
recovered from the biggest
extinction on earth were
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Mother Of A Goose! Giant Ocean-going Geese With Bony-teeth Once Roamed Across SE England
A 50 million year old skull
reveals that huge birds with
a 5 meter wingspan once
skimmed across the waters
that covered what is now
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America's Smallest Dinosaur Uncovered
An unusual breed of dinosaur
that was the size of a
chicken, ran on two legs and
scoured the ancient forest
floor for termites is the
smallest dinosaur species
found in North America,
... > full story
- Earliest Animal Footprints Ever Found Show Animals Walking 30 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
- Canada's Shores Saved Animals From Devastating Climate Change 252 Million Years Ago
- Mother Of A Goose! Giant Ocean-going Geese With Bony-teeth Once Roamed Across SE England
- America's Smallest Dinosaur Uncovered
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Carbonate-hosted Avalon-type Fossils In Arctic Siberia
September 30, 2008 — Our present understanding of the origin of animals and Phanerozoic ecosystems depends critically on the ability to interpret impressions left behind by soft-bodied Ediacaran organisms, and to ... > full story -
New Ant Species Discovered In The Amazon Likely Represents Oldest Living Lineage Of Ants
September 16, 2008 — A new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant discovered in the Amazon rainforest is likely a descendant of the very first ants to ... > full story -
My, What Big Teeth You Had! Extinct Species Had Huge Teeth On Roof Of Mouth
September 12, 2008 — Paleontologists have found a previously unknown amphibious predator that probably made the Antarctica of 240 million years ago something less than a hospitable ... > full story -
Oxygen Theory Of Mass Extinction Questioned By New Research Findings
September 10, 2008 — Several theories have been proposed by scientists to explain the two mass extinction events which took place on the earth 250 and 200 million years ago. The Permian-Triassic catastrophe (250 million ... > full story -
Trichoplax Genome Sequenced: 'Rosetta Stone' For Understanding Evolution
September 8, 2008 — Molecular and evolutionary biologists have produced the full genome sequence of Trichoplax, one of nature's most primitive multicellular organisms, providing a new insight into the evolution of all ... > full story -
Oldest Gecko Fossil Ever Found, Entombed In Amber
September 3, 2008 — Scientists have discovered the oldest known fossil of a gecko, with body parts that are forever preserved in life-like form after 100 million years of being entombed in ... > full story -
First Prehistoric Pregnant Turtle And Nest Of Eggs Discovered In Southern Alberta
August 27, 2008 — A 75-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant turtle and a nest of fossilized eggs that were discovered in the badlands of southeastern Alberta are yielding new ideas on the evolution of egg-laying and ... > full story -
Stone Age Graveyard Reveals Lifestyles Of A 'Green Sahara'
August 15, 2008 — The largest Stone Age graveyard found in the Sahara, which provides an unparalleled record of life when the region was green, has been discovered in Niger by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence ... > full story -
Antarctic Fossils Paint Picture Of Much Warmer Continent
August 6, 2008 — Scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra -- in the form of fossilized plants and insects -- on the interior of the southernmost continent ... > full story -
Little Teeth Suggest Big Jump In Primate Timeline
August 5, 2008 — Tiny fossilized teeth excavated from an Indian open-pit coal mine could be the oldest Asian remains ever found of anthropoids, the primate lineage of today's monkeys, apes and ... > full story
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