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Huge New Dinosaur Had A Serious Bite
October 3, 2007 — The newest dinosaur species to emerge from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument had some serious bite, according to researchers. 'It was one of the most robust duck-billed dinosaurs ever,' ... > full story -
Saber-toothed Cat Was More Like A Pussycat Than A Tiger
October 2, 2007 — In public imagination, the sabre-toothed cat Smilodon ranks alongside Tyrannosaurus rex as the ultimate killing machine. Powerfully built, with upper canines like knives, Smilodon was a fearsome ... > full story -
Fish Diet Linked To Evolution, Ten Million Year Old Chipped Teeth Show
September 30, 2007 — Chips from 10 million years ago have revealed new insights into fish diets and their influence on fish evolution, according to a new article in Science. The chips were found, along with scratches, on ... > full story -
DNA Extracted From Woolly Mammoth Hair
September 27, 2007 — Scientists discovered that hair shafts provide an ideal source of ancient DNA -- a better source than bones and muscle for studying the genome sequences of extinct animals. They sequenced the entire ... > full story -
New Light Shed On The 'Hobbit'
September 25, 2007 — Researchers have completed a new study on Homo floresiensis, commonly referred to as the "hobbit," a 3-foot-tall, 18,000-year-old hominin skeleton, discovered four years ago on the Indonesian island ... > full story -
Extraterrestrial Impact Likely Source Of Sudden Ice Age Extinctions
September 25, 2007 — What killed the woolly mammoths? Scientists now suggests that a comet or meteorite exploded over the planet roughly 12,900 years ago, causing the abrupt climate changes that led to the extinction of ... > full story -
New Dinosaur Species Found In Montana
September 24, 2007 — A dinosaur skeleton found 24 years ago near Choteau has finally been identified as a new species that links North American dinosaurs with Asian dinosaurs. The dinosaur would have weighed 30 to 40 ... > full story -
Velociraptor Had Feathers
September 20, 2007 — Finding of quill knobs on fossilized velociraptor bone demonstrates that even large dinosaurs were feathered and may have descended from animals capable of flight. Scientists have known for years ... > full story -
Who Went There? Matching Fossil Tracks With Their Makers
September 18, 2007 — Fossilized footprints are relatively common, but figuring out exactly which ancient creature made particular tracks has been a mystery that has long stumped paleontologists. Scientists have now ... > full story -
Extra Gene Copies Were Enough To Make Early Humans' Mouths Water
September 14, 2007 — To think that world domination could have begun in the cheeks. That's one interpretation of a recent discovery which indicates that humans carry extra copies of the salivary amylase gene. Humans have ... > full story -
Fossil Whale Puts Limit On Origin Of Oily, Buoyant Bones In Whales
September 14, 2007 — When a whale dies and falls to the bottom in the deep ocean, it attracts a weird community of mollusks, crabs and worms that feed on its oil-rich bones. A 15 million-year-old fossilized whale ... > full story -
Predation Linked To Evolution, Study Suggests
September 14, 2007 — The fossil record seems to indicate that the diversity of marine creatures increased and decreased over hundreds of millions of years in step with predator-prey encounters. For decades, there has ... > full story
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