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The last European hadrosaurs lived in the Iberian Peninsula

Male sabertoothed cats were pussycats compared to macho lions

Despite their fearsome fangs, male sabertoothed cats may have been less aggressive than many of their feline cousins, says a new study of male-female size differences in extinct big cats.

Portable 3-D laser technology preserves Texas dinosaur's rare footprint

Using portable 3D laser technology, scientists have electronically preserved a rare 110 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint that was previously excavated and built into the wall of a bandstand at a...

New clues to the Falklands wolf mystery

Ever since the Falklands wolf was described by Darwin himself, the origin of this now-extinct canid found only on the Falkland Islands far off the east coast of Argentina has...

The terrible teens of T. rex

NIU's Reed Scherer (left to right), Mike Henderson and Joe Peterson examine Jane's upper jawbone at the Burpee Museum.We all know adolescents get testy from time to time. Thank goodness we don't have young tyrannosaurs running around the neighborhood.

New analyses of dinosaur growth may wipe out one-third of species

Paleontologists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Museum of the Rockies have wiped out two species of dome-headed dinosaur, one of them named three years ago – with...

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Charles Darwin really did have advanced ideas about the origin of life

Charles Darwin really did have advanced ideas about the origin of life.When Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species 150 years ago, he deliberately avoided the subject of the origin of life. This, coupled with the mention of the 'Creator' in...

Ethiopia's climate 27 million years ago had higher rainfall, warmer soil

Thirty million years ago, before Ethiopia's mountainous highlands split and the Great Rift Valley formed, the tropical zone had warmer soil temperatures, higher rainfall and different atmospheric circulation patterns than...

Museums increasingly turn to scientists to preserve treasures

Museums are increasingly seeking help from chemists in an effort to understand and preserve the artistic and cultural heritage of the treasures in their collections. That's the topic of the...

Pavlopetri -- the world's oldest known submerged town

This image shows large square building foundations at Pavlopetri.The world's oldest known submerged town has been revealed through the discovery of late Neolithic pottery. The finds were made during an archaeological survey of Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia...

Clemson researchers say algae key to mass extinctionss

Algae, not asteroids, were the key to the end of the dinosaurs, say two Clemson University researchers. Geologist James W. Castle and ecotoxicologist John H. Rodgers have published findings that...

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AIBS publishes Darwin articles open access

To celebrate the 150th anniversary this month of the publication of On the Origin of Species, the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is publishing open access two peer-reviewed articles about Charles Darwin and his historic insights into evolution.

Atlanta's Fernbank Museum tracks infamous conquistador through southeast

Sixteenth century glass beads are among the rare artifacts discovered at Fernbank Museum of Natural History's archaeology site, which scholars believe is a stop along Hernando de Soto's trek through the Southeast in 1540.Archaeologists at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History have discovered unprecedented evidence that helps map Hernando de Soto's journey through the Southeast in 1540. No evidence of De Soto's path...

The humble beginnings of a king

Tyrannosaurus rex and related large carnivorous dinosaurs together form the family Tyrannosauridae. A long forgotten fossil skull in the collections of the Natural History Museum in London has now provided...

Notorious 'man-eating' lions of Tsavo likely ate about 35 people -- not 135, scientists say

The legendary "man-eating lions of Tsavo" that terrorized a railroad camp in Kenya more than a century ago likely consumed about 35 people--far fewer than popular estimates of 135 victims,...

Losing your tongue

Elder Tommy George has not spoken his aboriginal language of Kuku Thaypan for three years, since his brother died. "It might die in the throat, but it stays alive in...

The largest bat in Europe inhabited northeastern Spain more than 10,000 years ago

This is what the bat, <i>Nyctalus lasiopterus</i>, looks like nowadays.Spanish researchers have confirmed that the largest bat in Europe, Nyctalus lasiopterus, was present in north-eastern Spain during the Late Pleistocene (between 120,000 and 10,000 years ago). The Greater Noctule...

Ancient 'monster' insect offers Halloween inspiration

Just in time for Halloween, researchers have announced the discovery of a new, real-world "monster" – what they are calling a "unicorn" fly that lived about 100 million years ago...

Geologist analyzes earliest shell-covered fossil animals

This is John Moore from University of California -- Santa Barbara.The fossil remains of some of the first animals with shells, ocean-dwelling creatures that measure a few centimeters in length and date to about 520 million years ago, provide a...

The first men and women from the Canary Islands were Berbers

This is a study sample of aboriginal teeth.A team of Spanish and Portuguese researchers has carried out molecular genetic analysis of the Y chromosome (transmitted only by males) of the aboriginal population of the Canary Islands to...

2-million-year-old evidence shows tool-making hominins inhabited grassland environments

In an article published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE on October 21, 2009, Dr Thomas Plummer of Queens College at the City University of New York, Dr Richard...

Fracture zones endanger tombs in Valley of Kings

This is a photograph of a damaged ceiling in tomb KV6 in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt. The top portion of the image shows areas damaged by water and repaired cracks.Ancient choices made by Egyptians digging burial tombs may have led to today's problems with damage and curation of these precious archaeological treasures, but photography and detailed geological mapping should...

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