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Published New dinosaur showed descendants how to dress to impress - New Dinosaur Showed Descendants How to Dress to Impress
(via sciencedaily.com) Scientists have found the most elaborately dressed-to-impress dinosaur ever described and say it she...
Published Humans disrupting 66-million-year-old feature of ecosystems - Humans Disrupting 66-Million-Year-Old Feature of Ecosystems
(via sciencedaily.com) Human-related extinctions of the largest herbivores and carnivores are disrupting what appears to be...
Published Quartz crystals in the stomach of fossil bird complicates the mystery of its diet - Quartz Crystals in the Stomach of Fossil Bird Complicates the Mystery of Its Diet
(via sciencedaily.com) The fossil of a bird that lived alongside the dinosaurs was found with some sort of rocks in its sto...
Published Coevolution of mammals and their lice - Coevolution of Mammals and Their Lice: A Fascinating Relationship
(via sciencedaily.com) According to a new study, the first louse to take up residence on a mammalian host likely started ou...
Published Revealing the genome of the common ancestor of all mammals - Revealing the Genome of the Common Ancestor of All Mammals
(via sciencedaily.com) An international team has reconstructed the genome organization of the earliest common ancestor of a...
Published First evidence indicating dinosaur respiratory infection - First Evidence Indicating Dinosaur Respiratory Infection
(via sciencedaily.com) Scientists have discovered the first evidence of a unique respiratory infection in the fossilized re...
Published How new bird species arise - How New Bird Species Arise: Understanding the Process of Speciation
(via sciencedaily.com) Much of a centuries-old debate over where and how new bird species form has now been resolved. Resea...
Published Fossils reveal how ancient birds molted their feathers -- which could help explain why ancestors of modern birds survived when all the other dinosaurs died
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid-induced mass extinction 66 million...
Published Like the phoenix, Australia's giant birds of prey rise again from limestone caves
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Australia's only vulture, and a fearsome extinct eagle, are among the earliest recorded birds of pre...
Published Fossil named 'Attenborough's strange bird' was the first in its kind without teeth
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source A new fossil, named 'Attenborough's strange bird' after naturalist and documentarian Sir David Atten...
Published Woolly mammoths evolved smaller ears and woolier coats over the 700,000 years that they roamed the Siberian steppes - Woolly Mammoths: Evolution of Smaller Ears and Woolier Coats
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source A team of researchers compared the genomes of woolly mammoths with modern day elephants to find out...
Published Humans' ancestors survived the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs - **Humans' Ancestors Survived the Asteroid Impact that Killed the Dinosaurs**
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source A Cretaceous origin for placental mammals, the group that includes humans, dogs and bats, has been r...
Published Woolly mammoth movements tied to earliest Alaska hunting camps
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Researchers have linked the travels of a 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth with the oldest known human ...
Published How did humans learn to walk? New evolutionary study offers an earful
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source A new study, which centers on evidence from skulls of a 6-million-year-old fossil ape, Lufengpithecu ...
Published Panama Canal expansion rewrites history of world's most ecologically diverse bats
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source In a new study, paleontologists describe the oldest-known leaf-nosed bat fossils, which were found a...
Published To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears, researchers say
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Archeologists say new findings might help resolve the debate about Clovis points and reshape how we...
Published The evolution of Asia's mammals was dictated by ancient climate change and rising mountains - The Evolution of Asia's Mammals: How Ancient Climate Change and Rising Mountains Shaped Their Destiny
(via sciencedaily.com) A new study compiles data on more than 3,000 species to show how climate and geologic changes across...
Published Forget mammoths: These researchers are exploring bringing back the extinct Christmas Island rat - Forget Mammoths: These Researchers are Exploring Bringing Back the Extinct Christmas Island Rat
(via sciencedaily.com) Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, mammoths 4,000 years ago, and the Christmas Island Rat ...
Published Fossil pigments shed new light on vertebrate evolution - Fossil Pigments: A New Tool for Understanding Vertebrate Evolution
(via sciencedaily.com) This new paper shows that melanin is more than just something that gives colour to the body. It play...
Published New kangaroo described -- from Papua New Guinea - New Kangaroo Described - From Papua New Guinea
(via sciencedaily.com) Australian palaeontologists have described a new genus of giant fossil kangaroo from the mountains o...