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Tyrannosaur Skeleton For Sale, But Ownership Is Questioned

Posted Sat May 19, 2012 08:03 AM ET | 0

Mongolia is raising concerns that a rare Tyrannosaur specimen now on auction in New York City may have left the country illegally. Read more

Tiny Deep-Sea Life Eats Dinosaur-Era Meals

Posted Sat May 19, 2012 06:53 AM ET | 0

Deep ocean microorganisms are subsisting on nutrients first laid down when dinosaurs still walked the Earth. Read more

Dino-Era Insects Frozen in Time During Oldest Pollination

Posted Tue May 15, 2012 10:11 AM ET | 0

As dinosaurs loomed overhead, tiny female insects had just dusted themselves with pollen grains when they perished. Read more

Early Man Shared Florida With Mammoths

Posted by Emily Sohn Wed May 9, 2012 11:46 AM ET | 0

The discovery adds Florida to the list of places in North America where humans coexisted with massive, now extinct, creatures. Read more

Smallest Mammoth Discovered

Posted Wed May 9, 2012 09:27 AM ET | 0

The smallest dwarf mammoth stood just under 4 feet and lived on the Greek island of Crete. Read more

Fossil Fish Eye Surprise: Small Structures Reveal Pigment

Posted Tue May 8, 2012 02:05 PM ET | 0

Tiny pebblelike structures found in a 54-million-year-old fossilized fish eye contain the natural pigment, melanin. Read more

Dinosaur Farts May Have Warmed Ancient Earth

Posted Mon May 7, 2012 02:41 PM ET | 0

The greenhouse gas methane produced by all sauropods across the globe would have been about 520 million tons per year. Read more

Killer Fish Looked Half Shark, Half Tuna

Posted by Jennifer Viegas Wed May 2, 2012 03:00 PM ET | 0

The fish donned a tuna-like forked tail and terrorized ocean dwellers 240 million years ago. Read more

Dinosaurs on Road to Extinction Before Asteroid Strike

Posted by Jennifer Viegas Tue May 1, 2012 11:18 AM ET | 0

Some dinosaurs were already in decline before the big asteroid struck. Read more

Body Armor of First Land Animals Stymied Acid

Posted by Jennifer Viegas Tue Apr 24, 2012 07:01 PM ET | 0

The world’s earliest four-legged animals had a body that helped deter painful acid buildup. Read more

Jurassic Lark? Expedition to Seek Living Dinosaurs in Africa

Posted Wed Apr 18, 2012 02:39 PM ET | 0

A young Missouri man has turned to the Internet in search of investors for his expedition into the remote jungles of Africa seeking to document the mythological mokèlé-mbèmbé. Read more

Why Huge Dinosaurs Had Such Tiny Babies

Posted by Jennifer Viegas Tue Apr 17, 2012 07:00 PM ET | 0

In the end, dinosaurs were no match for mammals and the main issue was their egg-laying. Read more

Dinosaur Mom Died with Eggs Still Inside Her

Posted by Jennifer Viegas Wed Apr 11, 2012 03:51 PM ET | 0

The discovery marks the first time that fossilized eggs have been found inside the skeletal remains of a dinosaur Read more

Dinosaur Mom Died with Eggs Still Inside Her

Shaggy T. Rex Cousin Was Heftiest Feathered Dino

Posted Wed Apr 4, 2012 01:00 PM ET | 0

This 3,086-pound shaggy tyrannosaur was no songbird, but a fierce hunter. Read more

April Fools! 5 Hilarious Fake Scientific Breakthroughs

Posted Sun Apr 1, 2012 03:00 AM ET | 0

Scientists and science journals are at an advantage when it comes to fooling the rest of the world on April 1. Read more

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