BOZEMAN -- A "Sixty Minutes" segment featuring Montana State University paleontologist Jack Horner and former MSU graduate student Mary...
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BERKELEY — Paleontologists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Museum of the Rockies have wiped out two species of dome-headed...
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In a talk given today at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Bristol, England, Xing Xu presented the finding of a new specimen of...
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Ammonites are an extinct group of cephalopod molluscs related to the modern chambered nautilus, squid and octopus. Although it had an external shell...
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DURHAM, N.C. – How did piranhas — the legendary freshwater fish with the razor bite — get their telltale teeth? Researchers from...
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Most paleontologists consider dinosaurs to be the most likely ancestor of birds. As evidence they cite numerous transitional fossils such as...
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The following is a press release from the National Science Foundation.More than 55 million years ago, the Earth experienced a rapid jump in global...
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Amber occurs as irregular lumps of fossilized tree resin. It is not, as many believe, fossilized tree sap. Sap is mostly water while resin contains...
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Recently we reported on Isotelus rex being the largest of the trilobites. Now it appears it may have been dethroned. Recent finds published in the...
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