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Clawed worm rewrites evolutionary history.

20 August 2014 grant 0

A prehistoric worm with claws, says Live Science, has rewritten the origin story of crabs, spiders and mosquitos:

According to a new study of the creatures’ odd claws, Hallucigenia

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SONG: “Step Into The Sky”

23 July 2014 grant 0

SONG: “Step Into The Sky.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “A new raptorial dinosaur with exceptionally… Read the rest “SONG: “Step Into The Sky””

Unbrushed teeth left a message for the future

18 July 2014 grant 0

Science Daily has more on the prehistoric plaque that’s teaching us about our ancestors’ diets:

The research was carried out at Al Khiday, a pre-historic site on the White

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A: Prehistory’s largest micro-raptor. (Four wings!)

16 July 2014 grant 0

Q (from Nature): What’s 100 cm long, has long feathers and flew with four wings?

Here we describe a new ‘four-winged’ microraptorine, Changyuraptor yangi, from the Early Cretaceous

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What’s that a fossil of? Oh, just giant sperm.

14 May 2014 grant 0

PbysOrg looks back into the distant past, when tiny shrimp left behind sperm longer than their bodies:

The giant sperm are thought to have been longer than the male’s entire body,

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Science Art: Le Monde Primitif, by Adolphe-Franois Pannemaker, 1857.

11 May 2014 grant 0

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This eerie vision of an alien, ancient world greeted those who opened the front cover of W.F.A. Zimmerman’s Le monde avant la creation de l’homme, “the… Read the rest “Science Art: Le Monde Primitif, by Adolphe-Franois Pannemaker, 1857.”

Fossil bones rejoined after 163 years apart

27 March 2014 grant 0

BBC has the full story on a 75 million-year-old giant sea turtle fossil that took a century and a half to put together:

Atlantochelys mortoni was originally described from a broken arm bone,

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Darker than Nemesis: Was it dark matter that killed the dinosaurs?

18 March 2014 grant 0

Nature tries to see what was behind the comet that killed the dinosaurs – and other mass extinctions that seem to happen every 35 million years. One guess: Our solar system passes through… Read the rest “Darker than Nemesis: Was it dark matter that killed the dinosaurs?”

Science Art: Cotylorhynchus, by Nix

24 February 2014 grant 0

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The Tumblr illustrator Nix is having a paleoart February, creating a new illustration of a non-dinosaur, non-pterosaur prehistoric creature every day of the month.

This is the seventh… Read the rest “Science Art: Cotylorhynchus, by Nix”

Native Americans go back longer than we thought.

18 February 2014 grant 0

Nature examines a DNA test on a “Clovis boy,” whose DNA proves that 12,000 years ago, the ancestors of today’s Native Americans were already here:

…[T]he boy’s

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Science Art: Life restoration of Ischigualastia jenseni, by Smokeybjb

16 February 2014 grant 0

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Here’s a little (calf-sized being “little” here) fella from the Triassic period (the first of the three periods of dinosaur rule on Earth, a few million… Read the rest “Science Art: Life restoration of Ischigualastia jenseni, by Smokeybjb”

Science Art: Occipital View of Skull of Ovibos Moschatus, by W. West & Co., 1866

9 February 2014 grant 0

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This is a very old skull from a Stone Age mammal called Ovibos moschatus, as pictured in A monograph of the British pleistocene mammalia, a publication by W. Boyd Dawkins… Read the rest “Science Art: Occipital View of Skull of Ovibos Moschatus, by W. West & Co., 1866”

Grandpa shrew lived with the dinosaurs.

27 January 2014 grant 0

And now, Discovery News says, we know what he looked like – the early human ancestor who lived with the dinosaurs:

This ancestor, the first placental mammal, lived between 88.3 to

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Rarer than pterodactyl footprints…

13 January 2014 grant 0

Times of India reports that they’ve just found some pterosaur footprints in north India’s Jaisalmer Basin:

“Near the Thaiyat Village on the Jaisalmer-Jodhpur highway

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SONG: “Like a Rooster at Dawn”

23 December 2013 grant 0

SONG: “Like A Rooster At Dawn” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “Duck-billed dinosaur had rooster-like… Read the rest “SONG: “Like a Rooster at Dawn””

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