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Keyser_Soze1
03-05-2016
The 15 gene mutations that made us human.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160...-made-us-human
zackai48
03-05-2016
Originally Posted by Keyser_Soze1:
“The 15 gene mutations that made us human.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160...-made-us-human”

Sorry Keyser, but we were created human.
Keyser_Soze1
03-05-2016
Originally Posted by zackai48:
“Sorry Keyser, but we were created human.”

Not bothered watching the video then?
Keyser_Soze1
05-05-2016
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
Keyser_Soze1
06-05-2016
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
CLL Dodge
07-05-2016
Atopodentatus is the big story on the BBC website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36195167
Keyser_Soze1
08-05-2016
Originally Posted by CLL Dodge:
“Atopodentatus is the big story on the BBC website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36195167”

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/
TelevisionUser
08-05-2016
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.
Keyser_Soze1
11-05-2016
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
Keyser_Soze1
12-05-2016
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/
Keyser_Soze1
17-05-2016
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
CLL Dodge
18-05-2016
Fossil of a 12 million year old American dog species identified:

https://news.upenn.edu/news/fossil-d...-student-finds
Keyser_Soze1
18-05-2016
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
Keyser_Soze1
21-05-2016
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
Keyser_Soze1
25-05-2016
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
Keyser_Soze1
30-05-2016
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/
Keyser_Soze1
01-06-2016
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
Keyser_Soze1
07-06-2016
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/
CLL Dodge
07-06-2016
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
Keyser_Soze1
07-06-2016
Originally Posted by CLL Dodge:
“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.
Keyser_Soze1
09-06-2016
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
Keyser_Soze1
11-06-2016
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
Keyser_Soze1
14-06-2016
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
Keyser_Soze1
15-06-2016
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/
Keyser_Soze1
16-06-2016
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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