Topic: Paleontology
Australian scientists exploring areas of the Indian Ocean said Thursday they had found sunken parts of the megacontinent Gondwana which could offer clues on how the current world was formed.The two "islands" were found on the remote sea floor in international waters ...
The fossil of a python dating from about 15 million years ago has been discovered in southern Germany, first time proof that the reptile lived so far north, German palaeontologists said Monday.They deduced from a group of seven vertebrae that the python ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Everybody knows what dinosaurs look and sound like. After all, who hasn't seen the "Jurassic Park" movies.So what if your boss is Steven Spielberg -- the guy who created that movie and is chiefly responsible for those dinosaurs? ...
A small collection of amber-trapped feathers that may have belonged to dinosaurs or birds 80 million years ago have been found in a Canadian museum collection, said a study on Thursday.Ryan McKellar, a graduate student at Canada's University of Alberta, pored over ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A well-preserved set of 2-million-year-old fossils shows a part-human, part-ape species had hands similar to man, sophisticated ankles that helped in movement and a surprisingly tiny but advanced brain, a report released Thursday said.The fossils, discovered in a sunken ...
Palaeontologists said on Wednesday they had found the fossilised remains of a giant bird that lived in Central Asia more than 65 million years ago, a finding which challenges theories about the diversity of early birds.The creature may have been taller than ...
Researchers in Peru said Tuesday they have discovered the remains of ancient insects and sunflower seeds trapped inside amber dating from the Miocene epoch, some 23 million years ago.The rare find was made in the remote mountainous jungle region near Peru's northern ...
MANTUA TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (Reuters) - Paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara is looking deep in a New Jersey silt mine for the exact moment, 65 million years ago, when all dinosaurs perished.That secret could be harder to uncover if the fossils here can no ...
An international team of researchers using sophisticated x-ray technology has found chemical traces of a key color pigment in 100-million year old fossilized birds that once formed their feather patterns.The study, reported Thursday in the journal Science, provides a glimpse into the ...
An ancient sea predator with a spined head and plated mouth grew to a much greater size and lived far longer than thought, according to a study Wednesday shedding light on one of the Earth's most intriguing evolutionary periods.Scientists, in a paper ...
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Thailand Ancient Crocodile
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