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Old 03-05-2016, 20:57
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The 15 gene mutations that made us human.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160...-made-us-human
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Old 03-05-2016, 22:52
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Sorry Keyser, but we were created human.
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Old 03-05-2016, 23:08
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Sorry Keyser, but we were created human.
Not bothered watching the video then?
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Old 05-05-2016, 09:21
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Just a couple of stories.

The history of feathered dinosaurs in art (it goes back much further than you might think).

http://dinogoss.blogspot.co.uk/2016/...rs-in-art.html

A 520 million year old larva of the Cambrian arthropod Leanchoilia illecebrosa that has been perfectly preserved in 3-D.

http://www.livescience.com/54625-cam...ved-in-3d.html

http://www.livescience.com/54621-pho...-larva-3d.html

http://www.livescience.com/images/i/...ownsize=*:1400
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Old 06-05-2016, 20:29
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A weird 'hammerhead' was the oldest known herbivorous marine reptile.

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-hammerh...ng-marine.html

http://news.discovery.com/animals/ve...ter-160506.htm

Fossil footprints of the tiny dinosaur Minisauripus have been discovered in China.

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2016-0...t_38377984.htm

Going for a piss yields fossil treasure in the Gobi desert!

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cr.../#.VyzwKYQrLIW
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Old 07-05-2016, 08:50
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Atopodentatus is the big story on the BBC website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36195167
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Old 08-05-2016, 20:26
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Indeed - and here is yet another article on the prehistoric oddball.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...er-vegetarian/

The mighty Argentavis magnificens - the largest of the Teratorns and at around 70 kg the heaviest flying bird so far discovered in the fossil record - only the massive Pelagornis sandersi exceeds it in wingspan - but not in weight.

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...-of-patagonia/
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Old 11-05-2016, 16:34
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The toy maker who is attempting to bring scientifically accurate dinosaur figures to the market place.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/sci...rate-dino-toys

http://motherboard-images.vice.com/c...5496394356.jpg

But is the world finally ready for realistic feathered dinosaurs?

Probably everyone - apart from bloody Hollywood that is.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/they-h...really-were-2/

https://files.allaboutbirds.net/wp-c...or-720x753.jpg
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Old 12-05-2016, 22:18
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The evolution of the mighty Sauropods and everything you could ever want to know about the palaeobiology of the massive Megalochelys atlas - a tortoise the size of a small car.

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2016...ion-of-giants/

http://reptilis.net/2016/05/08/t-u-r...gest-tortoise/
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Old 17-05-2016, 21:33
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A few more recent palaeo articles that may be of interest to some.

http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/what-are-birds/

https://www.inverse.com/article/1561...your-fantasies

http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/238...ously-believed
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Old 18-05-2016, 00:37
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Fossil of a 12 million year old American dog species identified:

https://news.upenn.edu/news/fossil-d...-student-finds
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Old 21-05-2016, 21:10
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A beautiful new reconstruction of the little Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus a basal neornithischian from the Jurassic of Russia. It's feathery integument is regarded as excellent evidence for proto-feathers being basal to the Dinosaurs as a whole (rather than just to the Coelurosaurs).

Jurassic World take note.

http://siberiantimes.com/science/cas...ion-years-ago/

http://siberiantimes.com/upload/info...items_4366.jpg

http://siberiantimes.com/PICTURES/SC...ide_body_2.jpg

http://siberiantimes.com/PICTURES/SC...ide_body_1.jpg

Some other recent stories.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...ver-180959181/

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...-feed-a-t-rex/

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-oldest-...ay-finned.html
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Old 25-05-2016, 01:22
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The Eurypterids - the mighty 'sea scorpions' that included in their ranks the biggest arthropods of all time and the largest one of the lot - the monstrous superpredator Jaekelopterus rhenaniae.

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...-ancient-seas/

An insight into the jaw strength of Stegosaurus stenops and an early armoured dinosaur from Texas.

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/sci...s-stenops.html

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-early-a...as-lacked.html
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Old 30-05-2016, 22:13
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Eve the plesiosaur, the strange little Triassic reptile Longisquama insignis and the smoking gun that proves ancient man killed a Woolly mammoth around 45,000 years ago in Siberia.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36384054

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...s-longisquama/

http://siberiantimes.com/science/cas...000-years-ago/
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Old 01-06-2016, 12:08
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The interesting research that suggests dinosaurs had lips and a life-size reconstruction of 'Bruce' the Mosasaur (Tylosaurus pembinensis) makes it's way to the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden, Manitoba.

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/ani...full-pair-lips

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cfd_5AkXEAAPk2c.jpg

http://www.calgarysun.com/2016/05/30...p-for-mosasaur

http://storage.calgarysun.com/v1/dyn...y=80&size=650x
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Old 07-06-2016, 18:15
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Some lifeforms may be able to live for 250 million years!

Methuselah eat your heart out.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160...e-dinosaur-era

More on the secrets of brain of an early armoured dinosaur and another little Triassic reptilian oddball - the delta-winged Sharovipteryx mirabilis.

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...ored-dinosaur/

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...ith-leg-wings/
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Old 07-06-2016, 18:57
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Inbreeding in small Neanderthal populations made them up to 40% less reproductively fit than modern humans when the 2 populations lived side by side.

Although mostly weeded out by natural selection after inbreeding, non-Africans may have historically had approximately 1% lower reproductive fitness due to their Neanderthal heritage.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0606103654.htm
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Old 07-06-2016, 19:25
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Inbreeding in small Neanderthal populations made them up to 40% less reproductively fit than modern humans when the 2 populations lived side by side.

Although mostly weeded out by natural selection after inbreeding, non-Africans may have historically had approximately 1% lower reproductive fitness due to their Neanderthal heritage.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0606103654.htm
A very interesting article.
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Old 11-06-2016, 21:19
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The horrific events on the day that the non-avian dinosaurs died.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...eroid-science/

The debate over dinosaur resting poses.

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...bate-some.html
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Old 14-06-2016, 20:56
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Dromaeosaurids, the remarkable prehistoric elephant Platybelodon grangeri and the giant marine crocodilian Machimosaurus rex.

http://antediluviansalad.blogspot.co...gain-part.html

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...-a-saw-tusker/

http://www.albanydailystar.com/scien...ime-15399.html
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Old 15-06-2016, 07:07
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Evolution is truly bonkers at times - swimming sloths, horned gophers, a massive mammutid with very long tusks and giant snakes.

https://twilightbeasts.wordpress.com...ing-the-crawl/

https://twilightbeasts.wordpress.com...ll-but-mighty/

https://twilightbeasts.wordpress.com...eet-long-tusk/

http://orig08.deviantart.net/af18/f/...ca-d8lediu.jpg

https://twilightbeasts.wordpress.com...edusas-legacy/
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