China's new dinosaur fossil sheds light on bird origin

Flying Reptile May Have Snatched Dinosaurs in Midair

By: MrFkas

A crow-sized reptile sporting a lengthy tail likely soared through the skies some 160 million years ago, snatching feathered dinosaurs and tiny flying mammals from the air, suggest fossils of a newly identified pterosaur. While paleontologists can't go back in time to watch the in-flight meal capture, the http://www.livescience.com/php/...

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Did algae kill off the mighty dinosaurs?

By: inamshah

A new study suggests that algae may have been responsible for wiping entire species off the face of the Earth on at least five occasions. In the past 540 million years, five massive extinctions are thought to have killed off, in each case, some 50% to 90% of animal species. The study suggests that toxins from algae played a major role in all five ...

about 1 month ago

New dinosaur discovered in S. Africa

By: intellectual

 JOHANNESBURG: A new species of dinosaur that roamed the Earth 197 million years ago, likely an ancestor of the enormous brontosaurus, has been discovered in South Africa, scientists said Wednesday.Dubbed Aardonyx Celestae, a combination of Afrikaans and Greek that means "Earth Claw", fossils of the seven-metre (23-feet) long dinosaur ...

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New Aardonyx celestae dinosaur discovered in South Africa

By: dustgeer

Scientists in South Africa have hailed the discovery of a huge new dinosaur, Aardonyx celestae, that predates the giants of the Jurassic period. The creature was more than 20 feet long, six feet tall at the hip and weighed half a ton. Aardonyx celestae, discovered on a farm near Bethlehem in the Free State, is estimated to be 195 million ...

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