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92-million-year-old fossil shows T. rex cousin you could literally look down on
History's most frightening dinosaur, the Tyrannosaurus rex, came from a long line of pipsqueaks. Scientists have identified a new cousin of the T. rex as a dinosaur that only reached the 3-foot height of a toddler. If it stretched its duck-billed head, an adult human ...
Life-size skeletal replica of Japan's largest dinosaur restored
What is believed to be Japan's largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton has been restored as a life-size replica, researchers and officials from the town of Mukawa, in Hokkaido, where the original discovery was made, said Wednesday. The replica of the 8-meter-long and 4-meter-tall plant-eating Hadrosaurid, dubbed ...
North Dakota fossil 'mother lode' records Earth-shaking asteroid's impact: study
Scientists in the U.S. say they have discovered the fossilized remains of a mass of creatures that died minutes after a huge asteroid slammed into the Earth 66 million years ago, sealing the fate of the dinosaurs. In a paper to be published Monday, a ...
Earth's earliest mobile organisms lived 2.1 billion years ago, Gabon shale fossils indicate
Scientists have discovered in 2.1-billion-year-old black shale from a quarry in Gabon the earliest evidence of a revolutionary development in the history of life on Earth, the ability of organisms to move from one place to another on their own. The researchers on Monday described ...
Wondrous extinct flying pterosaurs sported rudimentary feathers, China fossil study reveals
A microscopic examination of fossils from China has revealed that the fur-like body covering of pterosaurs, the remarkable flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs, was actually made up of rudimentary feathers. The surprising discovery described by scientists on Monday means that dinosaurs and their bird ...
China building boom uncovers buried dinosaurs, turns paleontologist into a star
At the end of a street of newly built high-rises in the northern Chinese city of Yanji stands an exposed cliff face where paleontologists scrape away 100-million-year-old rock in search of prehistoric bones. Like many fossil excavation sites in China, this one was discovered by ...
Greenland find billed as oldest fossils on Earth may be just rocks: study
What were billed as the oldest fossils on Earth may just be some rocks, according to a new study. Two years ago, a team of Australian scientists found odd structures in Greenland that they said were partly leftovers from microbes that lived on an ancient ...
Bats been hanging around for over 33 million years, fossil indicates
Belgian scientists have discovered the oldest ever fossil of the common mouse-eared bat, proving the species already existed more than 33 million years ago. The bones of the tiny mammal were found at a fossil site in the late 1990s, unearthed when a new high-speed ...
Osaka whale fossil believed to be first evidence of Eden's whale
An old fossil found long ago in Japan turns out to be the world’s first known proof that the elusive Eden’s whale existed.
Cranial bones of three horned dinosaurs found in western Japan
Cranial bones of three primitive horned dinosaurs have been found in a Lower Cretaceous stratum in Sasayama, Hyogo Prefecture, the Museum of Nature and Human Activities said Saturday. Noting that the ages of the dinosaurs are different, the prefectural museum hopes that the bones can ...
University of Tokyo researchers present what they say is the most ancient traces of life on Earth.
Fossilized teeth belonging to a plant-eating dinosaur have been discovered in Nagasaki Prefecture, offering fresh clues about the reptile and the ecosystem 81 million years ago, a local museum said Tuesday. Thirty-five fossilized teeth have been unearthed from a geological layer dated to the late ...
