Earth’s 5 catastrophic mass extinctions, explained
Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...
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‘Unprecedented snapshot’ of Early Jurassic dinosaurs has been hiding in plain sight at a school, scientists say
While researchers knew the 1.5-meter-long (about 5-foot-long) slab was around 200 million years old and home to an abundance of visible dinosaur footprints, the significance of the fossil remained ...
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Dinosaur Tracks, Made 140 million Years Ago, Found for First Time in South Africa
Southern Africa has an extensive record of Mesozoic vertebrate fossils, but that record ends at around 180 million years ago in the Early Jurassic with the eruption of voluminous lava flows. To the ...
Dinosaur tracks from 140 million years ago found on coastline
Dinosaurs have captured people’s imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by ...
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Weird Mongolian Dinosaur Wielded ‘Big, Sharp and Nasty’ Claws
Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest ...
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Volcanic Cooling Led to Rise of the Dinosaurs
The short but powerful eruptions caused sulfates to gush into the atmosphere and turned Earth into an icebox that killed almost everything. When the climate improved, the dinosaurs entered a ...
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Q&A: Western prof discovers dinosaur footprints in South Africa
Guy Plint, a professor emeritus of earth sciences at Western University, joined London Morning to talk about identifying ...
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World’s oldest known cerapodan dinosaur discovered in Morocco
Cerapodan body fossils, however, have been harder to come by. For some time, the oldest example was a 164-million-year-old ...
Dinosaur tracks, made 140 million years ago, have been found for the first time in South Africa’s Western Cape
Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, according to a study published in Nature. The remains were first discovered ...