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A Sahara desert odyssey yields a major dinosaur discovery
3+ hour, 58+ min 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
4+ hour 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…...
Canadian fossil reveals one of the first plant-eating animals
1+ week, 2+ day ago (648+ words) Feb 10 (Reuters) " Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature dating to about 307 million years ago that is one of the oldest-known plant-eating land vertebrates, representing a pivotal juncture in animal evolution. The creature,…...
New AI method helps identify which dinosaur made which footprints
1+ week, 6+ day ago (566+ words) WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) " Footprints are among the most common kind of dinosaur fossils. Sometimes scientists find a single, lonely footprint. Sometimes they come across a chaotic jumble of tracks resembling a dance floor, sort of a dinosaur discotheque. But identifying…...
Thousands of dinosaur footprints found on Alpine cliffs near Winter Olympics site
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (327+ words) MILAN, Dec 16 (Reuters) " Italian paleontologists have uncovered thousands of dinosaur footprints on a near-vertical rock face more than 2,000 metres above sea level in the Stelvio National Park, a discovery "they say is among the world's richest sites for the Triassic…...
A throat bone settles it – Nanotyrannus was not a juvenile T. rex
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (707+ words) WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) " Paleontologists for decades debated whether meat-eating dinosaur Nanotyrannus was actually just a juvenile Tyrannosaurus. But within a span of five weeks, the matter seems to have been definitively resolved by two new studies showing that Nanotyrannus was…...
First kiss was 20 million years ago by early primates, scientists say
3+ mon, 22+ hour ago (313+ words) AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Kissing did not begin with star-crossed human lovers but with the primate ancestors of great apes around 20 million years ago, according to a study published on Wednesday. Researchers from Oxford University and the Florida Institute of Technology wanted…...
RNA recovered from Siberian mammoth that died 39,000 years ago
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (699+ words) WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have recovered the oldest-known RNA, a molecule necessary for most biological functions, from a woolly mammoth that inhabited Siberia about 39,000 years ago, showing it can last longer than previously known and promising a new path for studying…...
Agile and vicious Nanotyrannus was not just a teenage T. rex
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (710+ words) WASHINGTON (Reuters) -At the twilight of the age of dinosaurs, an agile and vicious predator named Nanotyrannus prowled western North America, resembling a smaller version of Tyrannosaurus " about a tenth the body mass " but with several key anatomical differences. That…...
Hornless rhino roamed Canadian High Arctic 23 million years ago
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (701+ words) (Reuters) -About 23 million years ago, a species of rhinoceros " similar in size to the modern Indian rhino but lacking a horn " made its home in the challenging environment of the Canadian High Arctic, which at the time was warmer than…...