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• New Study on Mammoth Extinction

  
  Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science — Authority: 134
  Mammoth skelton located in the Southeast Bavarian Natural History and Mammoth Museum. Image credit: Lou.gruber/Wikipedia A new study by University of Wisconsin – Madison researchers sheds new light on why large North American mammals, like the Mammoth, became extinct .  Published in Science , this study ...
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• Observatory: Fun With Nicknames for Ancient Crocodiles

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  A paleontologist at the University of Chicago has fun naming the fossil crocodiles he has dug up from the Sahara.
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• WHEN… CROCODILES RULED THE EARTH? In a newly published...

  
  BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER. — Authority: 725
  WHEN… CROCODILES RULED THE EARTH? In a newly published paper, scientists have described five crocodile species who once lived in present-day Niger and Morocco. The scientists gave their discoveries names that evoke each species’ unique physical attributes. The meat-eating “BoarCroc,” above, measured 20 ...
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• Science Links

  
  Stephen Bodio's Querencia — Authority: 464
  A BBC news article seems to point to the "Overkill Hypothesis" as the major cause of the extinction of the American megafauna. Studies of dung preserved in a Wisconsin lake suggest "... a slow decline in megafauna that began about 15,000 years ago and appeared to last for about 1,000 years. "This discovery rules ...
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• Old Crocos

  
  PlanetBye — Authority: 127
  Crocos Pick your size. :-)
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• Crocodile ancestors found in Sahara

  
  Greg Laden's Blog — Authority: 660
  A six-metre croc with three sets of fangs is among the five ancient relatives of modern-day crocodiles found in the Sahara Desert, scientists said Thursday. Three of the fossils, discovered by researchers led by Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago and Hans Larsson of McGill University, represent newly named ...
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• New Vegan Dino Discovered

  
  The Pink Flamingo — Authority: 484
  What had flat feat, was a binge eater, and liked its veggies?“…The vegetarian dinosaur, one of three discovered at the same site, was named Aardonyx celestae — the genus name... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Unearthing Mongolia: Gigantoraptor Erlianensis

  
  Scientific Blogging — Authority: 642
  The Paleontologist community in China and around the world are all aflutter over a recent find in the Erlian Basin of Inner Mongolia. Known more for its heavy oil potential and favorite export - pollution, northeastern China is the preferred stomping ground for the savvy petroleum geologist. As a complete aside, it ...
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• More Human Evolution Diagrams

  
  A Three-Pound Monkey Brain — Authority: 100
  Im nearing the end of work on a review of the case for human evolution. Ive uploaded some of the diagrams to my Flickr account before. Some of these were just updated and some new ones were added: see The Case for Human Evolution (Flickr set) . This is probably my favorite of the lot, showing the congruence between ...
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• 100 Years 100 Objects: Merychippus

  
  BEYONDbones — Authority: 128
  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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• Remains of 5 Ancient Crocs Found in the Sahara

  
  Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science — Authority: 134
  This week paleontologists Paul Sereno and Hans Larsson revealed the discovery of the remains of five ancient African crocodyliforms , early ancestors of crocodiles.  Three of the crocodyliforms are new discoveries while the other two were previously identified.  The three new discoveries are: Kaprosuchus ...
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• 5 "Oddball" Crocs Found in Sahara Desert

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 788
  A strange assortment of prehistoric crocodilyform fossils have been found in Africa. Crocodilyforms are ancient cousins of today’s alligators, crocodiles, and caimans. For instance, the rodent-like RatCroc had buckteeth for rooting through the ground after tubers or simple animals. The flat-bodied PancakeCroc ...
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• Dinosaur Fossils Helicoptered Out of Southern Utah

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 701
  Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils were helicoptered out of The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah this week. The bones transported from the site represent a Gryposaurus monumentensis, an ankylosaur, a pterosaur, dinosaur-era turtles and a crocodile, along with other ...
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• Death of the mastadon

  
  The Why Files — Authority: 107
  Its one of the biggest puzzles of paleontology: Why did North Americas large mammals go extinct shortly after the glaciers melted about 15k years ago? New study suggests that hunters get the credit -- or blame.
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• Paleontologists find extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass extinctions

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 593
  Arnie Miller, University of Cincinnati professor of paleontology in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, and co-author Michael Foote of the University of Chicago publish their research in the Nov. 20 issue of Science with their paper, "Epicontinental Seas Versus Open-Ocean Settings: The Kinetics of Mass ...
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• Ancient crocodiles came in many forms, and some ate dinosaurs

  
  Newsvine - MinnieApolis's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 426
  Africa, the National Geographic says, was a land of dinosaurs and crocodiles. Fortunately some of the crocs actually ate dinos so that kept some of their numbers in check. There were crocs with pancake-like heads, and some that ate fish.
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• New Data Shed Light on Large-Animal Extinction

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  A team from the University of Wisconsin uncovered a crucial sequence of events that rules out some explanations and severely constrains others.
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• New fossils reveal a world full of crocodiles

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 152
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world divided up among a half-dozen species of unusual and perhaps intelligent crocodiles, researchers reported on Thursday. [More]
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• Ancient Galloping Crocodile

  
  Apathetic Lemming of the North — Authority: 438
  " Fossil hunters unearth galloping, dinosaur-eating crocodiles in Sahara " " The primitive crocodiles, which lived 100m years ago, were good swimmers but were also capable of galloping across the plains " guardian.co.uk (November 19, 2009) " Fossil hunters have uncovered the remains of primitive crocodiles that ...
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• After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 593
  Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North Americas vast assemblage of large animals — including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground sloths and giant beavers — began their precipitous slide to extinction. read more
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