Items tagged with Fossil

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Tyrannosarus Rex Was a Cannibal Monday, October 18th, 2010 - 12:02:09 - Anuradha Menon As if it weren't fearsome enough already, Tyrannosaurus Rex had yet another disagreeable trait, a new study claims. It was a cannibal. A Yale... read more

Attack of the Ancient 'Zombie' Ants Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 - 14:20:31 - Ehud Rattner Researchers claim to have found the first evidence of 'zombie' ants in the fossil record. They have matched peculiar cuts on a 48-million-year-old... read more

From Museum Basement, a ‘New’ Dinosaur Saturday, July 10th, 2010 - 14:03:29 - Anuradha Menon When Nicholas Longrich stumbled upon a fossilized fragment from a previously unknown dinosaur genus in the basement of the American Museum of Natural... read more

Snake Fossil Found Eating Baby Dinosaurs Monday, March 1st, 2010 - 16:41:56 - Anuradha Menon Scientists have found a 67 million-year-old fossil of a snake coiled around dinosaur eggs and a hatchling. This is the first evidence of snakes... read more

Dinosaur Death Pits Created by Giant's Foot Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 - 10:21:34 - Anuradha Menon Following in a giant dinosaur's footsteps could be fatal—but not for the reasons you might suspect. Mysterious "death pits" holding the fossil... read more

Dinosaurs Diversified Before Migrating Saturday, December 12th, 2009 - 16:47:45 - Anuradha Menon Fossils found in the US state of New Mexico are providing strong evidence that dinosaurs originated in what is now South America, and had already... read more

Dinosaurs Diversified Before Spreading Friday, December 11th, 2009 - 11:56:56 - Ehud Rattner Fossils found in the US state of New Mexico are providing strong evidence that dinosaurs originated in what is now South America, and had already... read more

Oldest Skeleton Disproves Missing Link Friday, October 2nd, 2009 - 12:35:53 - Anuradha Menon Scientists today announced the discovery of the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor. The find reveals that our forebears underwent a... read more

Oldest Feathered Dinosaur Found Saturday, September 26th, 2009 - 16:53:16 - Anuradha Menon Chinese scientists have discovered a near-complete fossil of the oldest bird-like dinosaur, and their find suggests such feathered animals were... read more

Dinosaur Burrow Gives Climate Change Clues Saturday, July 11th, 2009 - 18:11:42 - Anuradha Menon On the heels of his discovery in Montana of the first trace fossil of a dinosaur burrow, Emory University paleontologist Anthony Martin has found... read more

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