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11:13:24 PM New fossils show Australia had cosmopolitan, globe-trotting dinosaurs
Daily Star - Beirut,Lebanon

Paleontologist Erich Fitzgerald said an ankle bone fossil found 87 kilometers from Melbourne indicated that meat-eating dinosaurs known as ceratosaurs lived in what is now Australia some 125 million years ago. He said the finding suggested that back  [more]

11:13:24 PM Dinosaur flatulence contributed to greenhouse effect, study finds
Brandon News and Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA

They were large animals that had food fermenting in their guts for long periods of time because of their giant size, said University of Maryland paleontologist Thomas Holtz, who wasn't part of the study. By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Potty ... [more]

10:57:52 PM Huge Asteroid Is Still the Central Villain in Dinosaurs' Extinction
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Besides Mr. Brusatte, the other authors were Richard J. Butler of the University of Munich, Albert Prieto-Márquez of the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology in Munich, and Mark A. Norell, an American Museum paleontologist who is Mr [more]

9:53:46 PM Fossils of Largest Known Crocodile Found in Kenya
Sci-News.Com: Breaking Science News e-Magazine

“It's the largest known true crocodile,” said Dr. Christopher Brochu, an associate professor of geoscience at the University of Iowa and a lead author of the study published in the May 3 issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. [more]

8:16:48 PM A special ribbon cutting...
Rapid City Journal

With the construction of the new building, the highly popular Junior Paleontologist excavation opportunity for young visitors will move from its current site in the Mammoth Site's main gallery. In addition, an Advance Paleontology program - for older [more]

5:35:04 PM Early Man, Mammoths Shared Florida
MyFox Phoenix - Phoenix,AZ,USA

The University of Florida announced that the study, published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, focuses on human and mammal skeletal remains found at Vero Beach, Fla., in the early 1900s. Researchers used rare earth element analysis to [more]

1:09:56 PM Re-evaluation of Wulagasaurus indicates Basal Hadrosaurine ...
Phys.Org

Researchers from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, .... [more]

4:26:40 AM Ancient rebel rewrites fish history
ABC Online - Australia

The appropriately named Rebellatrix, meaning the rebel coelacanth, is described in the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . Coelacanths are iconic fishes today, well known as living fossils. They are thought of as slow movers, ... [more]



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