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The Globe & Mail
| 6 months ago
Make like a tree and die Large old trees are rapidly dying, in a situation three ecologists liken to the decline of large mammals such as rhinos and tigers. Their research, published Thursday in the journal Science, describes an increase in deaths of...
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The Guardian
| 6 months ago
Or not A newly named ancient animal Nyasasaurus may or may not be a dinosaur, but either way it pushes back the origins of this most famous of fossil lineages The newly named Nyasasaurus was found in the 1930s...In the 1930s palaeontologist Francis...
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Vanity Fair
| 6 months ago
The fossils push back the dawn of the dinosaurs to around 240 million years agoabout 10 to 15 million years earlier than previously thought, scientists say. Dubbed Nyasasaurus parringtoni, the animal is only known from an upper arm and some back...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 6 months ago
It pushes the date that dinosaurs lived back to 245 million years ago.
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io9
| 6 months ago
The new species, Nyasasaurus parringtoni , is so ancient that researchers are reluctant to declare it a true dinosaur. The dog-sized biped may actually represent a missing link' what would be the closest known relative to dinosaurs. The fossilized...
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Zee News
| 6 months ago
The size of a Labrador and slight of build, Nyasasaurus had a five foot-long tail and likely walked upright on two legs. With only a few ribs and arm bones to go on, the scientists can't be sure what the world's oldest dinosaur ate. However, it is...
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Sky News
| 6 months ago
The first dinosaur to have walked the Earth may have been discovered by researchers in the corridors of London's Natural History Museum...It has been named Nyasasaurus parringtoni after southern Africa's Lake Nyasa, now called Lake Malawi, and...
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Fox
| 6 months ago
An arm bone and a handful of vertebrae have yielded a surprising truth: The age of the dinosaur began earlier than anyone ever suspected. Sterling Nesbitt, a University of Washington postdoctoral researcher in biology The findings mean that the...
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BBC
| 6 months ago
A study in Biology Letters describes Nyasasaurus parringtoni , a new species from 10-15 million years before the previous earliest dinosaur specimens. It walked on two legs, measured 2-3m in length with a large tail and weighed between 20 and 60kg.
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Reuters
| 6 months ago
News Analysis & Opinion Related Topics Artist rendering shows Nyasasaurus parringtoni, either the earliest dinosaur or the closest dinosaur relative yet discovered in this image released to Reuters on December 4, 2012. Nyasasaurus parringtoni was up...
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The Independent
| 6 months ago
A set of fossilised bones kept for more than half a century in the dusty storerooms of the Natural History Museum in London belonged to the earliest-known dinosaur to roam the land. Scientists have confirmed that the fossils, which were first...
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BusinessInsider
| 6 months ago
Natural History Museum, London / Mark Witton A reconstruction Nyasasaurus from the Middle Triassic of Tanzania No one really knows when dinosaurs evolved. Hoping to clear up this mystery, researchers have been studying the mysterious fossil of...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 6 months ago
British palaeontologist in colonial Tanzania in the 1930s may be those of the oldest dinosaur ever found, researchers report. The bones are either those of the earliest dinosaur or of the closest relative of dinosaurs discovered to date, they said. A...
