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Dinosaur embryo in fossil egg has bird-like posture
13+ hour, 23+ min ago (272+ words) News9live New Delhi: In 2000, an exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo was discovered in Ganzhou, in southern China, estimated to be at least 66 million years old Inside was a toothless theropod dinosaur, or oviraptorosaur, named Baby Yingliang The fossil shows that the embryo…...
Neanderthals drove giant elephants hundreds of kms across Ice Age Europe
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (247+ words) news9live. com New Delhi: An international team of researchers have reconstructed the life histories of European straight-tusked elephants based on fossil teeth found at Neumark-Nord in northeastern Germany, revealing that Neanderthals hunted the animals in organised groups about 125, 000 years ago The…...
Giant dinosaur species discovered in Brazil reveals ancient link between South America and Europe
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (373+ words) New Delhi: Scientists in Brazil have discovered a new giant dinosaur species, which can provide new knowledge about prehistoric life and ancient associations of continents. The dinosaur is called Dasosaurus tocantinensis, and it is thought to be one of the…...
Tiny fossil rewrites history of mysterious group of dinosaurs
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (279+ words) News9live New Delhi: A team of researchers have identified a 90-million-year-old fossil that provides a missing link for a mysterious group of bird-like dinosaurs known as alvarezsaurs, that are famous for their tiny teeth and stubby arms ending in a single,…...
Sabre-crested Spinosaurus discovered in Sahara Desert
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (295+ words) Scientists have described a new species, Spinosaurus mirabilis based on remains found in the Sahara Desert. The dinosaurs lived 95 million years ago when the desert was a wetland. New Delhi: Fossils discovered in the Sahara Desert have been used to…...
Scientists reconstruct violent death of teenager 27, 500 years ago
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (293+ words) News9live New Delhi: Archaeologists unearthed the remains of a teenager at the Arene Candide cave in north-western Italy in 1942 The skeleton was discovered in an elaborate grave, within a shallow pit on a bed of red ochre His remains were adorned…...
Chinese fossil fills gap in early evolutionary history of birds
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (265+ words) News9live New Delhi: A team of researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered two bird fossils in Jurassic rocks from the Fujian Province in southeast China The rocks date to approximately…...
Wooly Rhinoceros tissue found in stomach of ice age wolf pup
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (295+ words) During the autopsy of an ice age wolf pup, scientists have discovered tissue of a woolly rhinoceros. The preserved genes are 14, 400 years old. New Delhi: Scientists have discovered the remains of a woolly rhino within the stomach of an ancient…...