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Mojoceratops: New dinosaur species named for flamboyant frill
Seeded on Fri Jul 9, 2010 9:16 AM EDT (EurekAlert!)
When Nicholas Longrich discovered a new dinosaur species with a heart-shaped frill on its head, he wanted to come up with a name just as flamboyant as the dinosaur's appearance.
Human Evolution: We're Not There Yet
Seeded on Mon Jul 5, 2010 9:00 AM EDT (NPR)
Keep an eye out for "The Human Edge," an NPR radio and web series that will examine the changes our ancestors went through over the past 500 million years.
Human-Made Global Warming Started With Ancient Hunters
Seeded on Sat Jul 3, 2010 8:36 AM EDT (Science Daily)
"A lot of people still think that people are unable to affect the climate even now, even when there are more than 6 billion people," says the lead author of the study, Chris Doughty of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California.
Dinosaur-chewing mammals leave behind oldest known tooth marks
Seeded on Thu Jun 17, 2010 3:33 AM EDT (Science Daily)
Paleontologists have discovered the oldest mammalian tooth marks yet on the bones of ancient animals, including several large dinosaurs.The discovered tooth marks are on a femur bone from a Champsosaurus, an aquatic reptile that grew up to five feet long; the rib of a dinosaur, …
Warm-blooded sea reptiles of the Jurassic
Seeded on Fri Jun 11, 2010 2:01 AM EDT (PhysOrg.com)
New evidence shows that reptiles roaming the oceans at the time of the dinosaurs could maintain a constant body temperature well above that of the surrounding water.
Researchers Investigate Jeyawati Rugoculus - New Plant-Eating Dinosaur
Seeded on Tue Jun 1, 2010 5:22 AM EDT (Scientific Blogging)
A team of paleontologists writing in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has described a new species of dinosaur based upon an incomplete skeleton found in western New Mexico.
Oldest Flying Reptile Found, Hunted on Foot?
Seeded on Mon May 31, 2010 4:18 AM EDT (National Geographic)
A new species of giant flying reptile has been found in the sands of the Sahara, a new study says. But the 95-million-year-old pterosaur likely preferred life on the ground, spending most of its time stalking prey in what was once a lush wetland.
Oldest Human Species Found: May Have Been Cannibal?
Seeded on Thu May 27, 2010 9:22 AM EDT (National Geographic)
There's a good chance it was a tiny little cannibalistic tree swinger, but the newly identified Homo gautengensis is family, according to a new study.
Palaeontologists solve mystery of 500 million-year-old squid-like carnivore
Seeded on Wed May 26, 2010 5:34 PM EDT (esciencenews.com)
A study by researchers at the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum sheds new light on a previously unclassifiable 500 million-year-old squid-like carnivore known as Nectocaris pteryx.
Mammoth extinction triggered climate cooling
Seeded on Mon May 24, 2010 1:46 PM EDT (USA Today)
Extinction of mammoths, camels, giant sloths and other large mammals in the New World may have cooled the global climate about 11,500 years ago, suggest paleobiologists. The culprit? Less of the greenhouse gas, methane, emitted by the massive herbivores.
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