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City Site Was Dinosaur Dining Room (June 29, 2007) -- A dinosaur bone bed in southwest Edmonton that served as a feeding area for the direct ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex has revealed that two dinosaurs, thought to have lived in different eras, actually ... > full story

March Of The Giant Penguins: Prehistoric Equatorial Penguins Reached 5 Feet In Height (June 25, 2007) -- Two heretofore undiscovered penguin species -- one of which was over 5 feet tall -- reached equatorial regions tens of millions of years earlier than expected and during a period when the earth was ... > full story

Ice Age Extinction Claimed Highly Carnivorous Alaskan Wolves (June 22, 2007) -- The extinction of many large mammals at the end of the Ice Age may have packed an even bigger punch than scientists have realized. To the list of victims such as woolly mammoths and saber-toothed ... > full story

Placental Mammals Originated On Earth 65 Million Years Ago, Researchers Assert (June 21, 2007) -- An early mammal fossil discovered in Mongolia led to researchers asserting that the origins of placental mammals, which include humans, can be dated to approximately 65 million years ago in the ... > full story

Remains Of Earliest Giant Panda Discovered (June 19, 2007) -- Although it may sound like an oxymoron, anthropologists report the first discovery of a skull from a "pygmy-sized" giant panda -- the earliest-known ancestor of the giant panda -- that lived in south ... > full story

CT Scan Reveals Ancient Long-necked Gliding Reptile (June 13, 2007) -- The fossilized bones of a previously unknown, 220 million-year-old long-necked, gliding reptile may remain forever embedded in stone, but thanks to an industrial-size CT scanner at Penn State's ... > full story

Agonized Death Throes Probable Cause Of Open-mouthed, Head-back Pose Of Many Dinosaur Fossils (June 11, 2007) -- Like investigators out of CSI or Cold Case, paleontologists are finding clues to a dinosaur's demise in its peculiar death pose. They argue that the open-mouthed, head-back posture of many dinosaur ... > full story

Ancient DNA Traces Woolly Mammoth's Disappearance (June 10, 2007) -- Some ancient-DNA evidence has offered new clues to a very cold case: the disappearance of the last woolly mammoths, one of the most iconic of all Ice Age giants, according to a recent article. DNA ... > full story

What Did Dinosaurs Hear? (June 5, 2007) -- What did dinosaurs hear? Probably a lot of low frequency sounds, like the heavy footsteps of another dinosaur, if University of Maryland professor Robert Dooling and his colleagues are right. What ... > full story

Lessons From The Orangutans: Upright Walking May Have Begun In The Trees (June 1, 2007) -- By observing wild orangutans, a research team has found that walking on two legs may have arisen in relatively ancient, tree-dwelling apes, rather than in more recent human ancestors that had already ... > full story

West African Ocean Sediment Core Links Monsoons To Global Climate Evolution (June 1, 2007) -- Monsoons, the life-giving, torrential rains of Asia and Africa, have an ancient, unsuspected connection to previous Ice Age climate cycles, according to scientists at the University of California, ... > full story

El Nino And African Monsoon Have Strongly Influenced Intense Hurricane Frequency In The Past (May 27, 2007) -- The frequency of intense hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean appears to be closely connected to long-term trends in the El Nino/Southern Oscillation and the West African monsoon, according to new ... > full story

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