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11:26:18 PM Crocodile Ancestor Found Near World's Largest Snake
Discovery News

The findings, outlined in the journal Paleontology, suggest that members of these two predatory species might have fought to the death 60 million years ago. Titanoboa measured an incredible 42 feet long. ("Sue," the famous Tyrannosaurus rex specimen  [more]

3:55:57 PM Archaeopteryx and the dinosaur-bird family tree
Natural History Museum - London,UK

Xing Xu from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, in Beijing, and colleagues, identified the feathered and chicken-sized ... [more]

10:01:24 AM Dinosaur fossil discovered in College Park
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

The find was made public this week after scientists published their findings in the Journal of Paleontology. (AP - Johns Hopkins Medicine/The Associated Press) Forget fearing the Terps. The area around what is now the University of Maryland campus ma [more]

6:38:14 AM New species of fish identified by Philly paleontologists
Newsworks.org

Paleontologists Dr. Jason Downs and Dr. Ted Daeschler with the Academy of Natural Sciences tell NewsWorks.org the fish had lobed fins that were an early precursor to limbs and was one of the earliest distant cousins of humans. ... [more]

5:31:35 AM Remains of dinosaur hatchling found in College Park
Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA

Tom Holtz, University of Maryland, College Park, vertebrate paleontologist, said that the discovered specimen is called a Propanoplosaurus Marylandicus, meaning that it is from the early cretaceous formation of Maryland and was a plant-eating ... [more]

12:28:09 AM Tiny dinosaur found in Maryland
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

The discovery has just been reported in the Journal of Paleontology. Look carefully at the image above. It shows a five-inch-long impression of a dinosaur found in stone. The triangular shape at the top right is its head, and to the left of that you  [more]



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