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11:49:28 PM Fossil Hunters in Romania Find a 2-Clawed Relative of Velociraptor
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

The lead author of the research paper was Zoltan Csiki, a paleontologist at the University of Bucharest, and one of the co-authors was Matyas Vremir, .... [more]

10:30:17 PM Velociraptor's kickboxing cousin discovered
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

.... of working on in my entire career," researcher Mark Norell, chairman of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, told LiveScience. .... [more]

9:50:07 PM Heaps of Fossils From Evolutionary 'Big Bang' Discovered
Wired News - USA

Until now, paleontologists had thought one reason the Burgess fossils were so well preserved was because they settled in thick deposits at the bottom of an ... [more]

8:51:28 PM New Predatory Dinosaur Discovered in Romania
Wired News - USA

“Its anatomy shows that it probably hunted in a different way than its less stocky relatives,” said paleontologist Stephan Brusatte of Columbia University ... [more]

7:34:47 PM 'Stocky dragon' dinosaur terrorized Late Cretaceous Europe
Genetic Engineering News - Larchmont,NY,USA

Paleontologists have discovered that a close relative of Velociraptor hunted the dwarfed inhabitants of Late Cretaceous Europe, an island landscape largely ... [more]

4:18:17 PM Display Showcases Largest Snake to Have Ever Lived
Forbes

“At its greatest width, the snake would have come up to about your hips,” explains paleontologist David Polly, the expert who published a paper last year, ... [more]

8:50:32 AM Woodbury man creates statues from stone
Waterbury Republican American - Waterbury,CT,USA

Smith, 53, isn't a paleontologist, a zoologist or a grave robber. The son of a mason who trained him from childhood, Smith has filled his front yard off ... [more]

7:15:23 AM Fossils of new species of N American dinosaur family found in China
People{;}s Daily - China

Xu Xing, researcher and dinosaur expert at the Institute of the Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, .... [more]



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