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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
Portable 3-D Laser Technology Preserves Texas Dinosaur's Rare Footprint
Using portable 3-D laser
technology, scientists have
electronically preserved a
rare 110 million-year-old
fossilized dinosaur
... > full story
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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 -
Terrible Teens Of T. Rex: Young Tyrannosaurs Did Serious Battle Against Each Other
November 2, 2009 — Teenage tyrannosaurs got into some serious fights with their peers. The evidence can be found on Jane, a prized juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex, discovered in 2001 in Montana. The dinosaur's fossils show ... > 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 -
New Wrinkle In Ancient Ocean Chemistry
October 30, 2009 — Geoscientists have corroborated evidence that oxygen production began in Earth's oceans at least 100 million years before the Great Oxidation Event (GOE). The researchers analyzed 2.5 ... > full story -
Novel Evolutionary Theory For The Explosion Of Life
October 27, 2009 — The Cambrian Explosion is widely regarded as one of the most relevant episodes in the history of life on Earth, when the vast majority of animal phyla first appear in the fossil record. However, the ... > full story -
Climate Events Let Ice Age Mammoths Pass Far Below 40 Degrees North Latitude
October 27, 2009 — Europe's southern-most skeletal remains of a mammoth were unearthed in a moor on the 37 degree N latitude. This is considerably south of the inhospitable habitat than one usually imagines for ... > full story
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