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• An Art Motif Origin For U28’s Croc Monster?

  
  Cryptomundo — Authority: 592
  A new look at a famous case in Sea Serpent literature stirs up some thoughts in my mind. Images.
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• Whale Fossil Discovered in Australia

  
  Green Options — Authority: 147
  This week in Australia, an ancient whale fossil estimated between 25 and 28 million years old has been discovered, and offers some unique insight into evolution and predatory habits. The whale, which has been dubbed the ancient dwarf whale since it measures only about 9 feet in length. It’s believed that this ...
  21 hours ago

• Whale Fossil Discovered in Australia

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  This week in Australia, an ancient whale fossil estimated between 25 and 28 million years old has been discovered, and offers some unique insight into evolution and predatory habits. The whale, which has been dubbed the ancient dwarf whale since it measures only about 9 feet in length. It’s believed that this ...
  21 hours ago

• Sinornithosaurus millenii venomous dinosaur fossil in China

  
  DWS Tech — Authority: 142
  Scientists unearth in China fossil of first-known dinosaur with venomous teethThe fossil of a feathered, “venomous” dinosaur, which lived about 125 million years ago, has been unearthed in north-eastern China.The well-preserved fossil indicates that this dinosaur, called Sinornithosaurus millenii, could deliver ...
  1 day ago

• 100 Years – 100 Objects: Brachiopod

  
  BEYONDbones — Authority: 131
  The Houston Museum of Natural Science was founded in 1909 - meaning that the curators of the Houston Museum of Natural Science have been collecting and preserving natural and cultural treasures for a hundred years now. For this yearlong series , our current curators have chosen one hundred exceptional ...
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• Creationism, Fossils and the Very-Handy God Effect

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 535
  Four years ago , I got my very own personally-signed copy of Jim Pinkoski’s book , A Creationist’s View of the Dinosaurs and the Theory of Evolution . This unintentionally hilarious book spins and twists and pirhouettes in an effort to rectify an account of Biblical creation with the observable reality in front ...
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• predatory dinosaurs, now with venom?

  
  weird things — Authority: 537
  Carnivorous dinosaurs were terrifying killing machines, they had to be in a world that would seem alien to us were we to somehow travel back in time. From hands with claws as sharp and long as knives, to giant killing toes that could sink into armored hides with ease, to bites that could crush bone. For example, ...
  4 days ago

• Top ten dinosaur and fossil finds of 2009

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  Washington, December 23 (ANI): An article in the National Geographic News has listed the top ten dinosaur and fossil finds of the year 2009.At number 10 is a study that found the fossils of largest trilobites ever discovered, which date back to 465 million years. The fossils show that swarms of up to a [...]
  4 days ago

• M. uintensis Redescription Diversifies Early Carnivores

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 132
  More than a hundred years after its discovery, the limbs and vertebrae of a fossil have been pulled off the shelf at the American Museum of Natural History to revise the view of early carnivore lifestyles. Carnivores—currently a diverse group of mostly meat-eating mammals like bears, cats, raccoons, seals, and ...
  5 days ago

• Venomous Dinosaur Discovered--Shocked Prey Like Snake? [del.icio.us]

  
  Blah, Blah! Technology — Authority: 130
  Jurassic Park was packed with pseudo-science, but one of its fictions may have accidentally anticipated a dinosaur discovery announced today—venomous raptors.
  5 days ago

• Year in Review – Best Crafts of 2009

  
  Today from The OBE Community — Authority: 133
  Good Morning. As I looked back through some of the creative projects we took on this year, it was great to check out how much fun we had learning about and discovering nature through creativity.... This is a summary of the daily post at Ourbigearth.com. Click on the headline to read the whole story.
  5 days ago

• Declining North American Mammal Populations

  
  Geology News — Authority: 145
  This press release explores how climate change and environmental degradation caused by human activity could be contributing to a decline in North American mammal populations.
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• Yikes! Venomous Raptors!

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 132
  A group of University of Kansas researchers working with Chinese colleagues have discovered a venomous, birdlike raptor that thrived some 128 million years ago in China. This is the first report of venom in the lineage that leads to modern birds. "This thing is a venomous bird for all intents and purposes," said ...
  5 days ago

• Feathered dinosaur prowled forests like a predatory turkey

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Poison from the bird-like dinosaurs fangs may have sent victims into shock, hampering their chances of escaping The remains of a venomous, feathered beast that terrorised prehistoric forests like a predatory turkey have been unearthed by fossil hunters in northern China. Palaeontologists uncovered a well-preserved ...
  6 days ago

• Ancient Koalas May Have Been Loud and Lazy but They Didn’t Chew Gum

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 152
  Lowland mid Tertiary rainforest of Queensland, Australia, including archaic koalas that reveal evidence about the origin of their distinctive vocalizations.Skull fragments of prehistoric koalas from the Riversleigh rainforests of millions of year ago suggest they shared the modern koala’s “lazy” lifestyle and ...
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• ‘Screaming Roadrunner’ roamed among dinos 71 to 75 million years ago

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  Washington, December 21 (ANI): Scientists have identified a new bird, nicknamed the ‘Screaming Roadrunner’, which roamed among dinosaurs 71 to 75 million years ago.According to a report in Discovery News, the fossils of the bird were originally found in the southern Gobi Desert in 1997.The new species, which lived ...
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• Lunar missions could prove creation true

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 140
  Current space programs may set their sights on Mars, but a team of astronomers and a biochemist at the science-faith think tank Reasons To Believe (RTB) publicly encourage NASA and other space agencies to revisit the lunar surface—to look for the remains of Earth’s oldest life-forms, reports Maureen Bell and Kathy ...
  1 week ago

• 100 Years – 100 Objects: Trilobites

  
  BEYONDbones — Authority: 131
  The Houston Museum of Natural Science was founded in 1909 - meaning that the curators of the Houston Museum of Natural Science have been collecting and preserving natural and cultural treasures for a hundred years now. For this yearlong series , our current curators have chosen one hundred exceptional ...
  1 week ago

• Saturday Morning Miniblog Update – Fossils, Filters and (Eco-)Facists

  
  Homologous Legs — Authority: 116
  Yeah, I’m a big fan of alliteration. So what? - Australian Government Internet filter to go ahead (How would you like your censorship today – pressed or filtered ?) - Fossil of seacow ancestor discovered (What? More data to slot into the Evolutionary Tree of Life? Scandalous.) - The evolution of koalas ...
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• Help the new guy ID this object......

  
  Treasure Quest Metal Detecting Forum — Authority: 163
  OK......I suck with computers and will take bets on how many posts before I actually get a picture to show up:lol: this item was found on a beach on the shore of Connecticut and is apparently a place that arrowheads are frequently found. My guess is that it is a scraper or small knife but I am BRAND NEW to this and ...
  1 week ago

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