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Velociraptor used its “killing claws” to climb trees, not disembowel its prey
London, September 11 (ANI): In a new research, palaeontologists have found that the prehistoric Velociraptor used its so-called “killing claws” to cling to prey and climb trees, not for disemboweling its victims.
According to a report in New Scientist, Phil Manning [...]
Scientists find ‘world’s oldest willy’
Sydney, July 14 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a 400 million-year-old reproductive organ in an ancient fish specimen, which is the oldest penis-like structure found yet.
According to a report by ABC News, earlier this year, the team, led by Australian palaeontologist Dr John Long, predicted some ancient fish from the Devonian era, had an attachment [...]
Eating more and using less energy made dinos gigantic
Sydney, July 9 (ANI): A US scientist has said that some dinosaurs grew larger than today’s elephants because they ate more and used less energy.
According to a report in ABC Science, the study suggests two factors, energy expenditure and food intake, influence the size of animals.
Using a mathematical model, study author Dr Brian McNab of [...]
Three new Aussie dinos discovered
Sydney, July 3 (ANI): In a new research, paleontologists have unveiled three new Australian dinosaur skeletons in outback Queensland, Australia.
According to a report by ABC News, the two herbivores and one carnivore, excavated from the Winton formation, roamed our land during the Cretaceous period – 98 million years ago.
Palaeontologist and lead author Dr Scott Hocknull, [...]
Duck-billed dino ate unlike anything alive today
Washington, June 30 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have found evidence that the duck-billed dinosaurs – the Hadrosaurs – had a unique way of eating, unlike any living creature today.
Working with researchers from the Natural History Museum, the study uses a new approach to analyze the feeding mechanisms of dinosaurs and understand their place [...]
200,000-year-old human hair found in dung in South Africa+
London. May 10 (ANI): Palaeontologists have discovered strands of hair belonging to a human who lived 200,000 years ago in fossilised hyena dung from a cave in South Africa.
Dr Lucinda Backwell, a palaeontologist at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, who led the team that found the hair, found 40 strands of fossilised [...]
Giant trilobites mated in groups and used their numbers for protection
Washington, May 9 (ANI): The discovery of giant trilobites in northern Portugal reveals the once ubiquitous marine creature mated in groups and used its numbers for protection.
Trilobites once roamed the sea floor, but were wiped out in the Permian-Triassic extinction, 250 million years ago.
These marine arthropods, typically less than 8 centimeters long, are distant [...]
Skulls of ancient hippos shed light on origin of Hobbit’s brain
Washington, May 9 (ANI): Ancient Madagascan hippos have shed light on the origins of the small brain of the 1-metre-tall human, known as the ‘hobbit’.
By examining the skulls of extinct Madagascan hippos, scientists at the Natural History Museum discovered that dwarfed mammals on islands evolved much smaller brains in relation to their body size.
So, Homo [...]
37,000-year-old baby mammoth discovered
London, May 3 (ANI): The secrets of now extinct ice age beasts have been revealed after the discovery of a body of a 37,000-year-old baby mammoth.
The perfectly preserved frozen body was found in the artic tundra.
For 37,000 years, the baby mammoth [...]
CT scanning performed on prehistoric turtle to find skull, eggs, embryos
Washington, April 16 (ANI): The fossilised remains of a 75-million-year-old turtle, only the second in the world found with eggs inside it, underwent CT scanning at Bozeman Deaconess hospital recently.
Knell, a Montana State University graduate student in Earth Sciences, has revealed that the purpose behind the scanning was to see whether he could find [...]
Dinos ‘evolved wings to attract mates’
London, Apr 5 (ANI): Dinosaurs may have evolved wings as a way of attracting the opposite sex, say biologists.
According to research from University of Manchester, the ability to fly was part of a evolutionary force, known as sexual selection, where traits deemed as attractive by the opposite sex become more common and more pronounced through [...]
Ear analysis suggests Archaeopteryx was more birdlike than reptilian
Washington, Jan 14 (ANI): A new research has suggested that the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx, had a similar hearing range to the modern emu, which suggests that the 145 million-year-old creature, despite its reptilian teeth and long tail, was more birdlike than reptilian.
The research was done by a team of paleontologists and biologists from London, [...]
Ear analysis suggests Archaeopteryx was more birdlike than reptilian
Washington, Jan 14 (ANI): A new research has suggested that the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx, had a similar hearing range to the modern emu, which suggests that the 145 million-year-old creature, despite its reptilian teeth and long tail, was more birdlike than reptilian.
The research was done by a team of paleontologists and biologists from London, [...]
Dino hunters uncover 48 new species in Britain’s own ‘Jurassic Park’
London, Feb 10 (ANI): Palaeontologists have found Britain’s very own Jurassic Park, an area where they have uncovered some 48 new prehistoric species including dinosaurs similar to the deadly velociraptor and giant flying pterosaurs.
According to a report in the Telegraph, a team led by Dr Steve Sweetman, from Portsmouth University, has made the findings, which [...]
First bird may have ‘heard like an emu’
London, Jan 15 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have found that the earliest known bird, the magpie-sized Archaeopteryx lithographica, was able to hear like a modern emu.
According to a report by BBC News, the research was part of an analysis in which scientists tested whether the length of the cochlear duct (part of the [...]
