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Fossil Find Shows How Life Recovered After 'Great Dying'
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsScientists have unearthed a giant trove of nearly 20,000 fossilized reptiles, shellfish and other prehistoric critters, providing a rare glimpse into how life recovered following the planet's most devastating cataclysm. The ancient marine community was found inside a 50-foot layer of limestone, which today forms part of a hill in Luoping, southwest China. For the past three years fossil hunters have been chipping away at the rock, excavating the remains of wee beasts, such as crabs, sea urchins and arthropods. And they've also recovered the outsized monsters that ate them, including the ...
Giant Flying Lizard Could Cross Whole Continents
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Nov. 15) -- Coast-to-coast nonstop flights. Not bad for a giant lizard. According to a new study published by palaeontologists in England and the United States, not only did the giraffe-sized lizard, known as pterosaur, fly, it flew incredibly long distances. The research by Drs. Mark Witton and Michael Habib was published today in the journal PLoS One and attempts to settle the dispute over whether, considering its size and skeletal weight, pterosaur could actually get off the ground in the first place. ''These creatures were not birds, they were flying reptiles with a distinctly ...
Man Dreams of Bringing Dinosaurs to Central Park
By Chris Epting - AOL News
(Oct. 11) -- This past summer, a widely read news story posed the question "How many dinosaurs could live in Central Park?" In the piece, scientists theorized that a parcel the size of Central Park might have fed several warmblooded adult sauropods, or perhaps 100 cold-blooded sauropods. The headline grabbed the attention of Carl Mehling, who first thought the article was referencing something else -- something near and dear to his heart. But it wasn't. American Museum of Natural History More than 100 years ago, a plan to put dinosaurs in Manhattan's Central Park went extinct. Now, Carl ...
Why Mass Plant Extinction Hurts More Than Just Veggie Lovers
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Sept. 29) -- Goodbye, grass? More than a fifth of the world's plants are at risk for extinction, according to a new study from the Royal Botanical Gardens at the Natural History Museum in London. "Big deal!" you might scoff, if you're one of the majority of Americans who eats almost no vegetables (let alone soy products). But it is a very big deal, as many of the 380,000 estimated plant species make life possible for all the rest of us here on Earth who don't get our energy directly from the sun. "We cannot sit back and watch plant species disappear -- plants are the basis of all life on ...
Quasimodosaurus: Hunchback Dinosaur Is a Spine-Tingling Discovery
By Michael McLaughlin - AOL News
(Sept. 23) -- Move over, Quasimodo, a newly discovered dinosaur could become the biggest hunchback the world has ever known. Three Spanish paleontologists announced their discovery of Concavenator corcovatus -- which means "the hunchback hunter from Cuenca" -- in the journal Nature. The carnivorous dino lived about 130 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period and had a prominent hump on its back. Raul Martin, Universidad Nacional de Educacion/AFP/Getty Images This guy's real name might be Concavenator corcovatus, but you can call him Quasimodosaurus. Paleontologists in Spain ...
Study: Mass Extinctions Could Shake Up Marine Life
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(Sept. 3) --The rate at which animals and plants are going extinct could drastically alter life in the Earth's seas, according to a new study. Mass extinctions throughout history have altered the structure of life in the seas, with dominant creatures being toppled and others rushing in to take their place, creating a whole new ecosystem. De Agostini / Getty Images Mass extinctions in the past have altered the structure of life in the seas. "It would be unwise to assume that any large number of species can be lost today without forever altering the basic biological character of Earth's ...
Exclusive: Traces of Red Panda Found in Tennessee
By Lee Speigel - AOL News(Aug. 9) -- It has the face of a giant panda bear and the body of a small raccoon. This unusual, cuddly-looking animal is the red panda, and until recently, was only believed to be native to the mountains of Nepal, Burma and China. Now, according to recent fossil findings, it appears the enigmatic red cousin to the black-and-white panda once roamed the long-ago forests of Tennessee. Red pandas currently live in various zoos around America, captivating the public and causing children to beg their parents to buy them one as a household pet. ...
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Dinosaur Likely Packed Venom in Fangs
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 22) -- Using snake-like fangs, saber-toothed dinosaur relatives of velociraptors likely subdued their prey with venom, scientists now suggest. Paleontologists analyzed the skulls of Sinornithosaurus, whose name means "Chinese bird lizard." This narrow-snouted raptor was the fifth and most bird-like dinosaur species ever to be discovered, and lived roughly 125 million years ago in the warm, moist forests of northeastern China during the late Cretaceous. "This is an animal about the size of a turkey," said researcher Larry Martin, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the University of ...
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