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They just dug up your 47 million year old ancestor

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In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans.
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Dinosaurs Broiled, Not Grilled - Science News

New research appearing in the December issue of Geology suggests that the heat from the asteroid impact — blamed for extinguishing most life on the planet at the end of the Cretaceous period — wasn’t enough to ignite worldwide wildfires, as previously thought.
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Extinct eagle may have eaten humans

Scofield said the findings are similar to what he found in Maori folk tales. "The science supports Maori mythology of the legendary pouakai or hokioi, a huge bird that could swoop down on people in the mountains and was capable of killing a small child," he said. New Zealand paleontologist Trevor Worthy said the study did a good job of proving the eagle was a killer.
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New bone analysis shows some dinosaurs survived asteroid impact

Scientists recently analyzed dinosaur bones found in the Ojo Alamo Sandstone in the San Juan Basin. Based on detailed chemical investigations of the bones, and evidence for the age of the rocks in which they are found, the researchers think some dinosaurs outlived the crash that occurred 65 million years ago and stuck around for a while.
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Ancient Snake Was As Long As a Bus

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A colossal snake about the length of a school bus slithered about South America's rainforests some 60 million years ago, according to an analysis of the skeletal remains of what is now considered the largest snake ever identified.
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Scientists say a comet killed millions of animals 13,000 yrs ago

... and that we "shouldn't dismiss the possibility of it happening again...researchers present what one author calls the "smoking bullet"—proof that an exploding comet triggered the sudden, thousand-year freeze that killed off mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and other large mammals that used to live in North America. Working at multiple sites across the continent, researchers found nanodiamonds—microscopic particles thought to be found on comets—in a 13,000-year-old layer of carbon-rich soil."
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Fossil Is Oldest Imprint of Insect - 312 million years

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NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass. (Dec. 2) -- U.S. researchers say they have discovered what appears to be the oldest imprint of a prehistoric insect, made while the dragonfly-like creature was still alive. The imprint found at a rocky outcrop near a large shopping center in North Attleboro, Mass., is believed to have been made by an insect about three inches long as it stood on mud some 312 million years ago.
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Dinosaur discovered in Argentina with bird like lungs

Mammals have expanding and contracting lungs, birds have rigid lungs. This fossil finding is a firm link between birds and dinosaurs. "Because the air passes through the air sacs on a one-way path, bird breathing is thought to be five times more efficient than mammalian breathing...The team that found the fossils, a joint American-Argentinian expedition led by University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno, says the dinosaur breathed 85 million years ago the same way as birds do today: with a unique, bellows-like system..."
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Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton

"TOKYO—Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday. The scientists uncovered a Tarbosaurus—related to the giant carnivorous Tyrannosaurus—from a chunk of sandstone they dug up in August, 2006 in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, said Takuji Yokoyama, a spokesman for the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, a co-organizer of the joint research project..."
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Ancestor of T. Rex found in Poland

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(click [more] for image) A long lost ancestor of T. Rex which is short for "Tyrant Lizard," in case you didn't know, has been found in Poland. From the article: "The predator dinosaur, given the working name "the Dragon," lived around 200 million years ago, team member Doctor Tomasz Sulej of the Polish Science Academy, told Reuters."
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