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Asteroid Traces in Japan May Be Linked to Dinosaur Extinction
17+ min ago (197+ words) Katsuyama, Fukui Pref. , May 21 (Jiji Press)--A team of Japanese researchers has discovered traces of an asteroid collision in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido that may have caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period…...
Vasuki Indicus: Was Vasuki Indicus bigger than Titanoboa?
2+ hour, 22+ min ago (16+ words) Was Vasuki Indicus bigger than Titanoboa? The Times of India Was Vasuki Indicus bigger than Titanoboa?...
New species of ancient Arctic mammals discovered in Alaska
14+ hour, 34+ min ago (803+ words) The shape of the tooth suggests that Camurodon borealis was likely a herbivore. (Shelley et al. via SWNS) Three newly discovered species reveal how ancient mammals survived extreme weather conditions in the Arctic millions of years ago. While the Arctic…...
Why Carnivorous Dinosaurs Evolved Such Tiny Arms
15+ hour, 58+ min ago (306+ words) tovima. com The famously tiny forelimbs found in several carnivorous dinosaurs, including tyrannosaurs, carnotauruses, spinosaurs, and velociraptors, were most likely a consequence of the evolution of their large, powerful heads, which they used to attack prey. That is the conclusion…...
Scientists solve 320-million-year mystery of reptile bone armor
4+ hour, 48+ min ago (586+ words) Reptiles have been growing armor in their skin on and off for hundreds of millions of years, but scientists never fully understood how it evolved. A massive new evolutionary study shows these skin bones appeared independently in multiple lizard groups…...
Dino-mite summer awaits as Dino World roars into South City Mall
13+ hour, 37+ min ago (257+ words) This summer, South City Mall is giving the city a chance to step into a world that existed millions of years before humans did. Dino World, which will be on at the Prince Anwar Shah Road mall until July 5, transforms part…...
Jurassic Quest
8+ hour, 21+ min ago (134+ words) " Jurassic Quest is coming to Kansas City! " Get ready to come face-to-face with life-sized dinosaurs at Jurassic Quest, happening May 22nd25th at the Overland Park Convention Center! Families can explore giant, true-to-life dinosaurs, meet interactive baby dinos, experience live raptor training…...
Early complex life clung to oxygenated seafloors for hundreds of millions of years
16+ hour, 3+ min ago (56+ words) The discovery overturns certain long-held assumptions about the group while corroborating others image: Delicate microfossils don't last when exposed to the surface. But they remain preserved in deeper rock layers. view more Credit: UC Santa Barbara University of California - Santa…...
Study finds early complex life lived in oxygenated seas, challenging long'held views of evolution
16+ hour, 35+ min ago (344+ words) Eukaryotes include humans, plants, animals, fungi and many microscopic organisms. Knowing where and how they first evolved is central to understanding how life on Earth became diverse and complex. "We wanted to know what environments earliest eukaryotic life inhabited, in…...
Tiny fossils found in 1. 7 billion-year-old mud yield clues to the evolution of complex life
4+ hour, 21+ min ago (825+ words) Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They are from drill holes bored hundreds of metres below the surface by mineral exploration companies decades ago. Some of these cores…...