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Why Tyrannosaurus rex has been cut down to size
6+ hour, 28+ min ago (363+ words) New findings about the Nanotyrannus have upended what we thought we knew about dinosaur hierarchy "When you come for the king, you best not miss," said New Scientist " "particularly if the king in question" is Tyrannosaurus rex, a nine-tonne dinosaur…...
Homo floresiensis: Earth’s real-life ‘hobbits’
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (635+ words) New research suggests that "early human pioneers" in Australia interbred with archaic species of hobbits at least 60,000 years ago "Experts have long debated the date that humans arrived in Australia," said LiveScience. Now a study using DNA from both ancient…...
Dinosaurs were thriving before asteroid, study finds
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (243+ words) The dinosaurs would not have gone extinct if not for the asteroid Dinosaurs appear to have been thriving before a giant asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, paleontologists working in New Mexico said Thursday in the journal Science. Experts…...