#New species of crested dinosaur identified in Mexico

#New species of crested dinosaur identified in Mexico

“#New species of crested dinosaur identified in Mexico” A team of palaeontologists in Mexico have identified a new species of dinosaur after finding its 72 million-year-old fossilized remains almost a decade ago, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said on Thursday. The new species, named Tlatolophus galorum, was identified as a crested dinosaur…

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#’Tree’-like dino grew based on resource availability: study

#’Tree’-like dino grew based on resource availability: study

“#’Tree’-like dino grew based on resource availability: study” Look who got their “Flintstones” vitamins. A new study has added evidence that some dinosaurs, particularly the Massospondylus carinatus, experienced growth spurts and pauses seasonally, in relation to health and habitat — so that in prosperous years, the animals could almost double in size. Most animals, including…

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#Ancient shark glided through the sea with wing-like fins

#Ancient shark glided through the sea with wing-like fins

“#Ancient shark glided through the sea with wing-like fins” WASHINGTON – About 93 million years ago, a bizarre plankton-eating shark shaped unlike any other known marine creature glided through the sea in what is now northeastern Mexico using curiously elongated wing-like fins that rendered its body wider than it was long. Scientists on Thursday announced…

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#Teeth from Siberian mammoths yield oldest DNA ever recovered

#Teeth from Siberian mammoths yield oldest DNA ever recovered

“#Teeth from Siberian mammoths yield oldest DNA ever recovered” WASHINGTON – Scientists have recovered the oldest DNA on record, extracting it from the molars of mammoths that roamed northeastern Siberia up to 1.2 million years ago in research that broadens the horizons for understanding extinct species. The researchers said on Wednesday they had recovered and…

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#‘Almost complete’ ancient shark fossil sheds new light on Earth’s past

#‘Almost complete’ ancient shark fossil sheds new light on Earth’s past

“#‘Almost complete’ ancient shark fossil sheds new light on Earth’s past” Experts have discovered an “almost-complete” fossil of a 150-million-year-old shark in Germany, giving them a nearly unprecedented look into Earth’s distant past. The study, published in the scientific journal Papers in Palaeontology, describes a fossilized Asteracanthus, which lived between 361 million years and 66 million years ago. The fossil was…

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#Russian divers hunt for ancient bones in frozen river

#Russian divers hunt for ancient bones in frozen river

“#Russian divers hunt for ancient bones in frozen river” Ancient shark teeth, bones of woolly rhinoceros, mammoths and other extinct animals – those are rare artifacts which attract Russian paleontologists to the ice-covered Tobol river some 1,242 miles east of Moscow. For almost two decades scientists have teamed up with divers for a bone hunt…

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#Megalodon fossils discovered all over the world

#Megalodon fossils discovered all over the world

“#Megalodon fossils discovered all over the world” Megalodons, the apex predator of the seas, may have gone extinct more than 3.5 million years ago, but experts may have discovered nurseries of the massive shark all around the world, according to a new study. The research, published in Biology Letters, notes that nurseries of the megalodon…

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#Slow and steady or a big spurt? How to grow a ferocious dinosaur

#Slow and steady or a big spurt? How to grow a ferocious dinosaur

“#Slow and steady or a big spurt? How to grow a ferocious dinosaur” WASHINGTON – Large meat-eating dinosaurs attained their great size through very different growth strategies, with some taking a slow and steady path and others experiencing an adolescent growth spurt, according to scientists who analyzed slices of fossilized bones. The researchers examined the…

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