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Male Sabertoothed Cats Were Pussycats Compared To Macho Lions
Despite their fearsome
fangs, male sabertoothed
cats may have been less
aggressive than many of
their feline cousins, says a
... > full story
'Duck-billed' Dinosaurs: Last European Hadrosaurs Lived In Iberian Peninsula
Spanish researchers have
studied the fossil record of
hadrosaurs, the so-called
"duck-billed" dinosaurs, in
the Iberian Peninsula for
... > full story
Seafloor Fossils Provide Clues On Climate Change
Deep under the sea, a fossil
the size of a sand grain is
nestled among a billion of
its closest dead relatives.
Known as foraminifera, these
complex little shells of ca ... > full story
Discovery Of The Oldest European Marsupial In SW France
Remains of one of the oldest
known marsupials have been
recovered in
Charente-Maritime, France,
by palaeontologists. This
discovery raises a new
... > full story
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Portable 3-D Laser Technology Preserves Texas Dinosaur's Rare Footprint
November 5, 2009 — Using portable 3-D laser technology, scientists have electronically preserved a rare 110 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint excavated in 1933, and built into the wall of a bandstand at a ... > full story -
Earliest Tyrannosauroid Rediscovered
November 4, 2009 — A long forgotten fossil skull in the collections of the Natural History Museum in London has now provided crucial clues to the early stages of the lengthy evolutionary history of Tyrannosaurus rex ... > full story -
New Clues To Extinct Falklands Wolf Mystery
November 3, 2009 — Ever since the Falklands wolf was described by Darwin himself, the origin of this now-extinct canid found only on the Falkland Islands far off the east coast of Argentina has remained a mystery. Now, ... > full story -
Snail Fossils Suggest Semiarid Eastern Canary Islands Were Wetter 50,000 Years Ago
November 2, 2009 — Isotopic measurements performed on fossil land snail shells found in ancient soils on the subtropical eastern Canary Islands resulted in oxygen isotope ratios that suggest the Spanish archipelago off ... > full story -
Newly Discovered Ankylosaur Dinosaur Is 'Biological Version Of An Army Tank'
November 1, 2009 — Paleontologists have discovered a new species of dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago during the early Cretaceous of central Montana. The new dinosaur, a species of ankylosaur is the biological ... > full story -
New Analyses Of Dinosaur Growth May Wipe Out One-third Of Species
October 31, 2009 — Paleontologists Mark Goodwin and Jack Horner have dug for 11 years in Montana's Hell Creek Formation in search of every dinosaur fossil they can find, accumulating specimens of all stages of ... > full story -
Largest Bat In Europe Inhabited Northeastern Spain More Than 10,000 Years Ago
October 30, 2009 — Spanish researchers have confirmed that the largest bat in Europe, Nyctalus lasiopterus, was present in north-eastern Spain during the Late Pleistocene. The Greater Noctule fossils found in the ... > full story -
Ancient 'Monster' Insect: 'Unicorn' Fly Never Before Observed
October 26, 2009 — Just in time for Halloween, researchers have announced the discovery of a new, real-world "monster" -- what they are calling a "unicorn" fly that lived about 100 million years ago and is being ... > full story -
Ethiopia's Climate 27 Million Years Ago Had Higher Rainfall, Warmer Soil
October 24, 2009 — Thirty million years ago, Ethiopia had warmer soil temperatures, higher rainfall and different atmospheric circulation patterns than it does today, according to new research of fossil soils found in ... > full story -
Ancient Bison Genetic Treasure Trove For Farmers
October 23, 2009 — Genetic information from an extinct species of bison preserved in permafrost for thousands of years could help improve modern agricultural livestock and breeding programs, according to ... > full story
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