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Fossil link for sea turtles found off coast of Taiwan
4+ hour, 33+ min ago (417+ words) The world’s first confirmed fossil of a modern leatherback sea turtle has been discovered off Taiwan, providing new clues about the species’ evolution. A leatherback sea turtle, which can easily grow to more than 2m long, is the largest sea turtle…...
Volunteers join effort to restore massive skeleton
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (476+ words) Volunteers armed with chisels, brushes and protective goggles chip away at rock encasing the bones of a massive amphibian in a glass-walled laboratory on the ground floor of Warsaw’s Copernicus Science Centre. On the other side of the wall, visitors…...
Mystery buyer bids US$50.1 million for ‘Gus’ the dinosaur
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (339+ words) A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil billed as one of the world’s largest and most complete specimens was sold for a record US$50.1 million on Tuesday to a mystery bidder. Sotheby’s said the 67-million-year-old fossil, nicknamed “Gus,” is the most expensive set…...
Stone giants
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (468+ words) Taipei Times - All Front Page Taiwan News Business Editorial & Opinion Sports World News Features Bilingual Pages Sculptures of a man and a giant woman — both nearly 5m tall — by Japanese artist Toshimitsu Ito sit on a beach near the Xinwu Stone…...
Researchers help shed light on the evolution of lungs
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (396+ words) Lee Yao-chang (李耀昌) from Taiwan’s National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center said that amniotes use an integrated thoracic skeleton to inhale and exhale oxygen via costal muscles, a major difference from their anamniote relatives, which rely on breathing through their skin…...
Scientists unearth sea lion fossil first near Taiwan
5+ mon, 3+ day ago (325+ words) A team of Taiwanese and Japanese scientists has identified sea lion fossils in waters around Taiwan proper in a breakthrough discovery that raises new questions. The team, which includes Tsai Cheng-hsiu (蔡政修), an associate professor of life sciences at National…...
Jurassic Kaohsiung
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (337+ words) Taipei Times - All Front Page Taiwan News Business Editorial & Opinion Sports World News Features Bilingual Pages Children react during the Face-to-Face with Dinosaurs event performed by Japanese troupe DINO-A-LIVE at the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying) yesterday. Kaohsiung…...
Prehistoric visitor
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (328+ words) Taipei Times - All Front Page Taiwan News Business Editorial & Opinion Sports World News Features Bilingual Pages A 9m brontosaurus inflatable sits on top of Chengcing Lake in Kaohsiung yesterday in observance of Children’s Day on Saturday. The installation coincides with a…...
Taiwan’s largest snake fossil, at 4m, found in Tainan
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (360+ words) Taiwanese paleontologists have discovered fossil evidence that pythons up to 4m long inhabited Taiwan during the Pleistocene epoch, reporting their findings in the international scientific journal Historical Biology. National Taiwan University (NTU) Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology associate professor Tsai…...
Taiwan’s largest snake fossil found in Tainan
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (363+ words) Taiwanese paleontologists have discovered fossil evidence that pythons up to 4m long inhabited Taiwan during the Pleistocene epoch, reporting their findings in the international scientific journal Historical Biology. National Taiwan University (NTU) Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology associate professor Tsai…...