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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Extinct Species, Reptiles & Amphibians, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 03 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Young Dinosaurs Roamed Together, Died Together

Young Dinosaurs Roamed Together, Died Together
photo credit: kekremsi A herd of young birdlike dinosaurs met their death on the muddy margins of a lake some 90 million years ago, according to a team of Chinese and American paleontologists that excavated the site in the Gobi Desert in western Inner Mongolia. The Sudden sudden death of the herd in...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Extinct Species, Reptiles & Amphibians, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 03 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Mini Dinosaurs Once Prowled North America

Mini Dinosaurs Once Prowled North America
photo credit: dyanna Massive predators like Albertosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex may have been at the top of the food chain, but they were not the only meat-eating dinosaurs to roam North America, according to Canadian researchers who have discovered the smallest dinosaur species on the continent to...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Evolution, Extinct Species, Science & Tech, Underwater, Wildlife on 02 27th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Scientists Find First Animal That Had Sex

Scientists Find First Animal That Had Sex
Remains of embryos entombed in their fish mothers' wombs for 380 million years have been found in fossils from an ancient rock outcrop in Western Australia. The finding is a big deal because it suggests that sex goes way back. The prehistoric fish, called placoderms, are found at the base of the vertebrate...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Extinct Species, Reptiles & Amphibians, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 02 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Monster Snake Slithered at 43 Feet Long

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. "It's the biggest snake the world has ever known," said Jason Head, a...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Extinct Species, Reptiles & Amphibians, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 02 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Texas May Replace Official State Dinosaur

Pleurocoelus has served ably as the official dinosaur of Texas. Sure, it was a plant-noshing herbivore in a fiercely barbecue-proud state, but the sauropod dwarfed most other dinos and lumbered with a 20-ton swagger. Then he was exposed as an East Coaster. Click here for the full article. I didn't know...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Cats, Conservation, Endangered Species, Extinct Species, Mammals, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 02 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Tigers ‘Took The Silk Road’ To Russia

DNA from an extinct sub-species of tiger has revealed that the ancestors of modern tigers migrated through the heart of China – along what would later become known as ‘the Silk Road’ – a team of scientists from Oxford University and the NCI Laboratory of Genomic Diversity in the USA report. In...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Extinct Species, Museums, Reptiles & Amphibians, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 01 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Ancient Wounds Reveal Triceratops Battles

How did the dinosaur Triceratops use its three horns? A new study led by Andrew Farke, curator at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, located on the campus of The Webb Schools, shows that the headgear was not just for looks. Battle scars on the skulls of Triceratops preserve rare evidence of...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Conservation, Endangered Species, Extinct Species, Mammals, Museums, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 01 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Hair Of Tasmanian Tiger Yields Genes Of Extinct Species

Image via Wikipedia All the genes that the exotic Tasmanian Tiger inherited only from its mother will be revealed by an international team of scientists in a research paper to be published on 13 January 2009 in the online edition of Genome Research. The research marks the first successful sequencing...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Extinct Species, Science & Tech on 01 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Study links mammoth extinction, comets

Image via Wikipedia Scientists discovered the mysterious cause of the extinctions of "megafauna" like woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats!  Now I know exactly why my house cat doesn't have dirk-like, razor-sharp tusks. A swarm of comets that smacked North America 12,900 years ago wiped...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Conservation, Dogs, Extinct Species, Mammals, Science & Tech on 11 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Japanese Scientists One Step Closer to Cloning Extinct Animals: Godzilla First In Line, Then Mothra

Image via Wikipedia Scientists say that they have taken a step closer to recreating extinct animals like the mammoth, after successfully cloning living mice from donor animals that had been frozen. A team of Japanese scientists produced the clones after thawing mice that had been frozen at minus 20C...
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