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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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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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Atopodentatus is the big story on the BBC website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36195167 |
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Atopodentatus is the big story on the BBC website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36195167 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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The case of the skellingtons in Antarktis:
Over a ton of dinosaur fossils from 71 million years ago were recently discovered in Antarctica, scientists said. The fossils are largely of marine dinosaurs, most notably those from a mosasaurus, the giant creature seen devouring all manner of things in Jurassic World, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. |
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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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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.
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A few more recent palaeo articles that may be of interest to some.
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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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Two new Ceratopsians, the fuss about feathers and Mark Witton on what we actually know about Quetzalcoatlus.
http://news.discovery.com/animals/di...lds-160518.htm https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...n-inspiration/ http://phys.org/news/2016-05-paleont...-southern.html http://phys.org/news/2016-05-horned-...ed-shield.html http://www.livescience.com/54788-new...dentified.html http://www.livescience.com/54787-hor...ad-spikes.html http://www.eartharchives.org/article...bout-feathers/ http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...s-science.html |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Recent research on the remarkable and diminutive 'Hobbits' (Homo floresiensis) and their ancestors.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...s-archaeology/ http://www.seeker.com/700000-year-ol...847236701.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...ght-180959347/ http://www.livescience.com/55014-min...iscovered.html http://www.livescience.com/25415-hob...resiensis.html http://phys.org/news/2016-06-ancesto...ry-hobbit.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/c...dapt.590.1.jpg |
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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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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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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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An absolute shitload of new stories.
![]() http://www.livescience.com/55071-pre...-wingspan.html http://www.eartharchives.org/article...iassic-titans/ http://www.earthtouchnews.com/discov...ear-old-fossil http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/art...ry?id=39227262 http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2016...tion-in-t-rex/ http://www.kpax.com/story/32237024/r...rgest-dinosaur https://extinctmonsters.net/2016/06/...he-titanosaur/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...959448/?no-ist |
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