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3 weeks, 2 days ago

Fossil dung reveals clues to the rise of dinosaurs

An international collaboration has been able to identify undigested food remains, plants and prey in the fossilised faeces of dinosaurs, which helped reconstruct the rise of the dinosaurs to become the dominant players in Earth’s ancient ecosystems. The analyses of hundreds of samples provide clues about the role dinosaurs played in the ecosystem around 200 million years ago. The researchers …

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1.5 million-years-old footprints reveal unknown secret about human species

India Today

A new study has unveiled fossilised footprints from two ancient human species, Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei, that coexisted in northern Kenya approximately 1.5 million years ago. Discovered at the Koobi Fora site near Lake Turkana, these footprints provide the first physical evidence that these distinct species shared the same landscape, raising intriguing questions about their interactions and potential competition …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Dinosaur poop reveals how they rose and dominated Earth

India Today

A new research has shed light on how dinosaurs rose to dominance during the Triassic Period, a time when they were initially overshadowed by other reptiles. Dinosaurs first appeared around 230 million years ago, coexisting with large crocodile relatives and massive herbivores. We analyzed feeding evidence to deduce the ecological role of dinosaurs across their first 30 million years of …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Huge study of fossilised dinosaur poo reveals how beasts came to rule the earth

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery This undated photo provided by Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki shows fossilised plant-eating dinosaur …

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1 month ago

Scientists may have finally cracked mystery of what came first: chicken or egg

The Independent

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Chromosphaera perkinsii, a unicellular organism found …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Can you guess the dish? Furious parents blast school dinners they 'wouldn't feed their dog' with 'fossilised' sausage rolls, dry burgers and burnt paninis...have YOUR children been served worse?

Daily Mail

Furious parents have branded their children's school meal 'shocking and disgusting' and claimed they are paying '£30 a week for them to be fed next to nothing'. Other parents claimed they would serve better food to their dogs The school has apologised and cited supplier issues One more said: 'Looks very poor, it's not hard to make nice food. Roast …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

Emu simulations show birds that run while keeping a foot on the ground save energy

ABC

Computer-generated emus have helped solve the long-running paradox of why birds sometimes run with at least one foot still touching the ground. Biomechanist Pasha van Bijlert from Naturalis, the Netherlands' natural history museum, said the "grounded running paradox" was strange because animals generally tried to conserve as much energy as possible. But a new study from Mr van Bijlert and …

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3 months ago

A fossilised link to Thamirabarani's long-lost history

New Indian Express

World Rhinoceros day is being observed on September 22, aiming to raise awareness on protecting the critically endangered species. The fossil was found while digging a well at Sathankulam in the then Tirunelveli district.” “Other than the front portion of the skull and the rest of the fossil were reconstructed by Dr GL Badan, Deccan College of Post Graduate and …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Oldest known active termite hills discovered in South Africa

ABC

Scientists in South Africa have discovered the oldest known active termite hills to date, at over 30,000 years old. Researchers from Stellenbosch University used radiocarbon dating to determine some termite mounds in an arid region of the country were about 34,000 years old. Ms Francis said the Namaqualand mounds are a termite version of an "apartment complex" and the evidence …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Giant salamander-like monster with huge teeth and a head shaped 'like a toilet seat' roamed Africa’s swamps 40 million years before the dinosaurs, scientists say

Daily Mail

Forty million years before the dinosaurs roamed the Earth, a far stranger monster was top of the food chain. Scientists have discovered a terrifying prehistoric predator with an enormous 'toilet seat-shaped head' One of the specimens was so well preserved researchers were able to find an articulated skull and spine hidden in the rock Although Namibia is just north of …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Neanderthal child with Down syndrome lived to age 6, inner ear fossil study suggests

ABC

In short: A skull fragment found in Spain may have belonged to a Neanderthal six-year-old with Down syndrome, according to the size and shape of inner ear structures in the bone. A skull fragment found in Spain may have belonged to a Neanderthal six-year-old with Down syndrome, according to the size and shape of inner ear structures in the bone. …

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7 months ago

Move aside, T.Rex! Newly discovered dinosaur that roamed Patagonia 70 million years had even SMALLER arms than the 'King of the Dinosaurs'

Daily Mail

If you thought T.Rex had short arms, wait until you see this newly discovered dinosaur. A carnivorous species dubbed Koleken inakayali roamed the Earth 70 million years ago, and had even tinier forelimbs than the 'King of the Dinosaurs'. A carnivorous species dubbed Koleken inakayali roamed the Earth 70 million years ago, and had even tinier forelimbs than the 'King …

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10 months ago

Duck-billed dinosaur from 100 million years ago ‘swam from Eurasia to Africa’

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A land-based dinosaur may have swam hundreds of miles from …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Cannot treat Scheduled Castes as a homogenous group: Supreme Court

The Hindu

A seven-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud on Tuesday observed that Scheduled Castes cannot be treated as a “homogenous group” for granting reservation as some may have advanced in society while other continue to remain “particularly underprivileged”. The court said the diverse groups, clubbed together in the Presidential list under Article 341 of the Constitution …

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1 year ago

Stones worshipped by villagers turn out to be fossilised dinosaur eggs

India Today

A group of scientists recently discovered that residents of a village in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district had been unknowingly worshipping dinosaur eggs as their family deities for years. One of the dinosaur eggs that were being worshipped by deities | Photo: India Today During the workshop, a local named Vesta Patel informed them about 'Kakad Bherav', a tradition of worshipping …

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1 year ago

This dinosaur's last meal was another young dinosaur

India Today

In a remarkable discovery that sheds light on the dietary habits of young tyrannosaurs, scientists have unearthed the fossilised remains of a juvenile Gorgosaurus, complete with its last meals preserved within its stomach. François Therrien, curator of dinosaur palaeoecology at the Royal Tyrrell Museum and co-leader of the study, explained that the physical differences between young and adult tyrannosaurs meant …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Divers, researchers, explore Limestone Coast's underwater caves to learn more about megafauna

ABC

Researchers are heading into the deep in regional South Australia to uncover the secrets of the larger-than-life creatures that once roamed the landscape. "We've got all sorts of megafauna down there — we've got short-faced kangaroos, we've got thylacoleo, which is the marsupial lion and probably the largest marsupial predator that ever lived," associate professor Julien Louys said. "A bone …

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1 year, 2 months ago

New tests confirm antiquity of ancient human footprints in New Mexico

The Hindu

Humans trod the landscape of North America thousands of years earlier than previously thought, according to new research that confirms the antiquity of fossilised footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico using two further dating approaches. The footprints date to about 21,000 to 23,000 years ago, based on radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence dating techniques, researchers said on …

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1 year, 3 months ago

A 150-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton named Barry is on sale in Paris

ABC

"It's very rare to say the least," says Hotel Drouot auctioneer Alexandre Giquello. Key points: A 150 million year old Camptosaurus nicknamed Barry is going under the hammer in Paris Dinosaur specimens on the art market are rare, with only a couple of sales a year worldwide Barry is expected to fetch almost $2 million at auction He's talking about …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Pollen in pee: fossilised urine from a small African mammal helps us understand past environments

The Hindu

If you are allergic to pollen, you are likely to curse the existence of these microscopic particles. By identifying the different types of pollen grains found within the different layers we can reconstruct the area’s vegetation history. These sticky deposits called “middens” accumulate in rock crevices in mountainous areas over thousands to tens of thousands of years and contain beautifully …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Billion-light-year-wide 'bubble of galaxies' discovered

The Hindu

Astronomers have discovered the first "bubble of galaxies," an almost unimaginably huge cosmic structure thought to be a fossilised remnant from just after the Big Bang sitting in our galactic backyard. ‘Unexpected’ The astronomers called their bubble Ho'oleilana -- "sent murmurs of awakening" -- taking the name from a Hawaiian creation chant. The pair enlisted the help of Australian cosmologist …

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1 year, 4 months ago

The monster shark of prehistoric Earth

BBC

Megalodon: the superpredator that ate its siblings in the womb Getty Images Megalodon is thought to have died out when shallower seas meant it could no longer hunt enough prey Extinct megalodon sharks were the top marine predators of their day and arguably more terrifying than anything Hollywood has dreamed up. "We really don't have a great handle on what …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Ancient clonal tree, King's lomatia, excites scientists in Tasmania's remote south west

ABC

Before the last ice age, deep in the mountains and valleys of south-western Tasmania an unusual little sprout grew from a seed. When Jayne met King's lomatia Dr Balmer surveying mutton bird on Green Island in 1989, a few years after she first visited King's lomatia. It was 1987, at least 43,000 years after the little seed sprouted, when a …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Juukan Gorge traditional owners urge unity on WA's new Aboriginal Heritage Act

ABC

The traditional owners for the 46,000-year-old Juukan Gorge rock shelter destroyed by Rio Tinto are urging the West Australian government to follow through with enacting its new Aboriginal Heritage Act. Key points: Juukan Gorge traditional owners want the new Aboriginal Heritage Act to go ahead as planned The PKKP Aboriginal Corporation has its own reservations but is calling for unity …

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Fossil dung reveals clues to the rise of dinosaurs

1.5 million-years-old footprints reveal unknown secret about human species

Dinosaur poop reveals how they rose and dominated Earth

Huge study of fossilised dinosaur poo reveals how beasts came to rule the earth

Scientists may have finally cracked mystery of what came first: chicken or egg

Can you guess the dish? Furious parents blast school dinners they 'wouldn't feed their dog' with 'fossilised' sausage rolls, dry burgers and burnt paninis...have YOUR children been served worse?

Emu simulations show birds that run while keeping a foot on the ground save energy

A fossilised link to Thamirabarani's long-lost history

Oldest known active termite hills discovered in South Africa

Giant salamander-like monster with huge teeth and a head shaped 'like a toilet seat' roamed Africa’s swamps 40 million years before the dinosaurs, scientists say

Neanderthal child with Down syndrome lived to age 6, inner ear fossil study suggests

Move aside, T.Rex! Newly discovered dinosaur that roamed Patagonia 70 million years had even SMALLER arms than the 'King of the Dinosaurs'

Duck-billed dinosaur from 100 million years ago ‘swam from Eurasia to Africa’

Cannot treat Scheduled Castes as a homogenous group: Supreme Court

Stones worshipped by villagers turn out to be fossilised dinosaur eggs

This dinosaur's last meal was another young dinosaur

Divers, researchers, explore Limestone Coast's underwater caves to learn more about megafauna

New tests confirm antiquity of ancient human footprints in New Mexico

A 150-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton named Barry is on sale in Paris

Pollen in pee: fossilised urine from a small African mammal helps us understand past environments

Billion-light-year-wide 'bubble of galaxies' discovered

The monster shark of prehistoric Earth

Ancient clonal tree, King's lomatia, excites scientists in Tasmania's remote south west

Juukan Gorge traditional owners urge unity on WA's new Aboriginal Heritage Act