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Study shows prehistoric people targeted female mammoths
2+ hour, 31+ min ago (707+ words) July 31 (Reuters) – Woolly mammoths were a favorite hunting target for Ice Age people in Eurasia and North America for many reasons. A single animal would provide a large amount of meat and fat. Its hide could be used for clothing....
Mammoth remains revealed in Bulgaria after Danube water levels hit record low
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (214+ words) SOFIA, July 29 (Reuters) – The remains of what is believed to be an ancient mammoth have been revealed in northern Bulgaria, after Danube River water levels receded to a record low level, the BTA news agency reported on Wednesday, citing historians....
Kenyan footprints shed light on prehistoric human cousin Paranthropus
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (675+ words) July 28 (Reuters) – Footprints left on a muddy lakeshore in northern Kenya around 1.43 million years ago are providing new insight into the size and behavior of a species in the human evolutionary lineage that was the last of its kind, known…...
Dinosaur-era fossil provides insight into snake evolution
1+ week, 22+ hour ago (720+ words) July 23 (Reuters) – Snakes first appeared during the age of dinosaurs, but fossils of many early species are so fragmentary that scientists have had difficulty deciphering their evolution as a group. Now, a well-preserved fossil from southeastern Brazil is offering fresh…...
Here’s how Tyrannosaurus ended up with a big head and small arms
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (539+ words) May 29 (Reuters) – Tyrannosaurus rex possessed a preposterously massive skull – 5 feet long (1.5 meters) and built to enable bone-crunching bite force – but presented preposterously puny arms. And many other meat-eating dinosaurs shared this mismatched combination of traits. So how did this come…...
Scientists dig up Southeast Asia’s largest dinosaur in Thailand
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (620+ words) May 14 (Reuters) – Along a meandering river in a warm and arid region that is now Thailand roughly 113 million years ago, a plant-eating behemoth almost 90 feet (27 meters) long browsed on the treetops without much fear of predators due to its sheer…...
‘Cretaceous Kraken’ prowled the seas during the age of dinosaurs
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (674+ words) WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) – The Kraken is a huge tentacled sea monster from Norse folklore that drags ships and sailors down into the deep. During the age of dinosaurs, new research shows, there existed a creature as close to a real-life…...
Dinosaur collagen used to create one-of-a-kind handbag
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (400+ words) By Charlotte Van Campenhout AMSTERDAM, April 2 (Reuters) – Scientists and designers unveiled on Thursday a handbag made with collagen derived from Tyrannosaurus rex fossils from the U.S. in a unique creation intended to demonstrate the value of laboratory-grown leather. The teal-coloured…...
A Sahara desert odyssey yields a major dinosaur discovery
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (306+ words) Feb 19 (Reuters) – It was not an easy task for a team of dinosaur-hunting scientists to reach the remote site called Jenguebi in northern Niger deep in the Sahara Desert. It was fitting that the closest locality was named Sirig Taghat,…...
Fossils of a new species of huge dinosaur Spinosaurus unearthed in Niger
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (765+ words) Feb 19 (Reuters) – At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among the biggest of the meat-eating dinosaurs, notable for its large blade-shaped head crest and jaws bearing interlocking…...