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- Mass Extinction Threat: Earth on Verge of Huge Reset Button?
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramatically
changed the diversity of species found in oceans all over the world, according
to a comprehensive study of fossil records. The findings suggest humans will
live in a very different future if they drive animals to extinction, because
the loss of each species can alter entire ecosystems.
- Fossil of stocky new predatory dinosaur unearthed in Romania
(AFP)
AFP - The fossil of a stocky new dinosaur with two sets of claws on its feet unearthed in Romania has given researchers a window into what European predators looked like in the final years of the Age of Dinosaurs.
- Remains of deadly European dinosaur discovered
(AP)
AP - Around 70 million years ago a stocky dragon stalked what is now Romania.
- Fossilized Creek Beds Offer Up Ancient Climate Change Clues
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - An ancient, fossilized landscape is slowly rising up from the fields of
sugar beets and barley in England's Fens, an agricultural hub near the
country's central eastern coast.
- Mind-Controlling Parasites Date Back Millions of Years
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Mind control by parasite sounds like the stuff of science
fiction, but not only have scientists revealed that it is real across a range
of animals - including perhaps humans - they now even have fossil evidence
suggesting it has taken place for millions of years.
- Fossils of Earliest Animal Life Possibly Discovered
(LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Fossils of what could be the oldest animal bodies have been discovered in
Australia, pushing back the clock on when animal life first appeared on Earth to at least 70 million years earlier than previously thought.
- `Lucy' species used stone tools, fossil study says
(AP)
AP - Two ancient animal bones from Ethiopia show signs of butchering by human ancestors, moving back the earliest evidence for the use of stone tools by about 800,000 years, researchers say.
- Cave of marsupial fossils discovered in Outback
(AP)
AP - Scientists have discovered a cave filled with 15-million-year-old fossils of prehistoric marsupials in the Outback, a rare find that has revealed some surprising similarities between the creatures and modern-day kangaroos and koalas.
- Vt. scrap-wood dinosaur posing modern-day problem
(AP)
AP - Does a 25-foot-tall, 122-foot-long dinosaur need a permit to avoid extinction?