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Why Were There No Tiny Dinosaurs? You Might Blame the Mammals
12+ hour, 58+ min ago (706+ words) Everyone knows dinosaurs got really big. Some of the long-necked plant-eaters were the largest land animals ever on Earth, as shown by Argentinosaurus, perhaps 70 to 90 tons and upwards of 100 feet (30 meters) long. But how about tiny dinosaurs, like the size…...
A Rare Dinosaur Fossil from Antarctica Is Found Tucked Away in a Drawer
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (1700+ words) Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica, tucked away for decades in a drawer. The bone comes from the tail of a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur called a titanosaur. Scientists haven't yet identified the species it belongs to....
Fossils Challenge Assumptions on How Animals Adapted to Land
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1766+ words) Scientists have long posited the earliest water animals to transition to land had amphibious tadpole features, going through a metamorphosis akin to that of today's frogs. But new research out Thursday in the journal Science challenges that conventional assumption. It…...
First Leather Bag Made from T-Rex Cells Fails to Sell at Paris Auction
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1205+ words) A leather bag made from Tyrannosaurus rex cells failed to sell on Thursday, the Paris auction house Drouot said, commenting that bids were well below expected. Auctioneers Giquello had touted the "one-of-a-kind" piece to sell for more than $500,000 but bids…...
Woolly Mammoth Among Trove of Ancient DNA Found in Squirrel Poo
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1770+ words) A huge treasure trove of ancient DNA from animals including extinct woolly mammoths has been discovered in frozen squirrel feces in Canada's remote Yukon territory, scientists said Tuesday. The DNA found deep inside sealed-off burrows is between 3,000 and 700,000 years old,…...
Genome Study Shows What Made the Extinct Ice Age Cave Lion Unique
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (1756+ words) The cave lion was one of the biggest cats to ever live, prowling a huge swathe of territory from Western Europe across Siberia and into North America and hunting large prey - and perhaps even people - before going extinct around the…...
Scientists: World's Oldest Octopus Fossil Isn't an Octopus after All
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (1661+ words) A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists found evidence that it’s not an octopus at all. University of Reading zoologist Thomas Clements, the lead researcher behind the new findings, said the…...
Physician Hails Love of Paleontology That Led to Major Ancient Reptile Discovery
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (556+ words) When physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio unearthed a fossil in Brazil's southern Rio Grande do Sul state in 2014, he could barely imagine his discovery would later help scientists better understand the rise of early reptiles. Research identified that fossil as…...