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Chronicles Network Ancient Camels: What caused their extinction?  
21:34 10-Oct-06   [Replies: 1, Views: 216]    By: j. d. worthington
Just saw this one and thought it may be of interest... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061011/...ia_giant_camel And this one seems germane to such issues, as well: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/2006...
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Chronicles Network Pharyngula  
19:42 9-Sep-06   [Replies: 7, Views: 204]    By: BookStop
Take a look-see at what was found in Ethiopia. An ancestor mayhaps? http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2..._3_years_o.php interesting....
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Chronicles Network Dinosaur Find In Utah  
00:42 9-Sep-06   [Replies: 0, Views: 103]    By: Rosemary
SALT LAKE CITY - The remains of two dinosaurs believed to be millions of years old were discovered in southern Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The article was very interesting...
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Chronicles Network Ferocious Ancestors  
14:13 8-Aug-06   [Replies: 0, Views: 166]    By: Rosemary
http://au.news.yahoo.com//060815/2/105qh.html Wednesday August 16, 09:09 AM Blue whales had 'ferocious ancestors' A ferocious-looking fossil with sharp teeth found in Australia shows that anc...
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Chronicles Network Pity the Poor T-Rex  
07:52 16-Jul-06   [Replies: 9, Views: 248]    By: j. d. worthington
Okay, here's an interesting one: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060715/...midlife_crisis...
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Chronicles Network Sea-dragon's Graveyard, perhaps?  
10:15 10-Jul-06   [Replies: 4, Views: 249]    By: j. d. worthington
Well, so to speak. Seems they've found quite a rich deposit of marine reptile fossils covering a longish period, and with at least one quite spectacular find on its own... http://news.yahoo.com/s/n...
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Chronicles Network Brachylophosaurus solves mystery  
20:50 23-Jun-06   [Replies: 5, Views: 267]    By: kyektulu
Taken from Fortean Times. MALTA - The absolute latest in technology is helping solve a forensics mystery that is 77 million years old. Five years ago in the badlands of north Malta paleontologists u...
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Chronicles Network Atlantis  
08:37 3-Jun-06   [Replies: 7, Views: 570]    By: Chrystelia
Wow I can't believe I just found this forum after almost a week on the site. There's this site I used to visit for articles on Atlantis. This guy is a scientist and has been researching Atlantis for m...
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Chronicles Network R: Australian meteor: largest mass extinction  
00:13 3-Jun-06   [Replies: 1, Views: 184]    By: j. d. worthington
Just came across this as I was checking my e-mails. I've not been able to get the listed link to come up, but if you call up Yahoo news, click onto science, then dinosaurs and fossils, there's a story...
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Ask Me HelpDesk word meaning  
06:04 15-Apr-06   [Replies: 1, Views: 26]    By: HMaryHelen
A fossil of an Ichthyosaur in Patagonia "is identified by the presence of strongly anficelic vertebrae and double headed trunk ribs." What is the meaning of 'anficelic'? ...
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Chronicles Network Evolution of grasses...  
15:24 12-Feb-06   [Replies: 1, Views: 307]    By: HieroGlyph
In my Feb issue of Sci-Am, there's an article about grasses, that links back to some slightly older news I had missed. My guess is that talking about grasses would bore the socks off almost everyone, ...
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Ask Me HelpDesk Information?  
20:06 20-Jan-06   [Replies: 1, Views: 100]    By: DinoEnthusiast
I'm doing research for a novel, and if anyone can give me some good information on Argentinosaurus, Amargasaurus, Saltasaurus, and Giganotosaurus, or at least links to some good informational sites, i...
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Chronicles Network "Walking With Monsters"...  
14:56 9-Dec-05   [Replies: 10, Views: 942]    By: HieroGlyph
I watched the first of a new three part series on BBC1 last night - "Walking With Monsters" BBC1 8:30pm UK (8/12/2005) - and I was impressed, pleased, entertained and almost satisfied with t...
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Ask Me HelpDesk Why were dinosaurs and giant sloths so large?  
06:37 5-Dec-05   [Replies: 6, Views: 279]    By: ProjManRaz
This one has driven me mad for years and this recent discovery hasn't helped 'Scientists found evidence in Scotland of a water scorpion that was 5.2 feet long and about 3.2 feet wide. The monste...
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Chronicles Network Dakosaurus andiniensis  
15:40 11-Nov-05   [Replies: 15, Views: 1174]    By: Foxbat
Reported in The Scotsman today - Fossil remains of a predator Dakosaurus andiniensis have been uncovered in Patagonia. Described as 13 feet long with 4 inch serrated interlocking teeth seems to resemb...
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Chronicles Network Prehistoric Trees  
03:25 6-Nov-05   [Replies: 6, Views: 768]    By: Rosemary
Dieback fungus attacks Prehistoric trees. Unauthorised visitors are thought to have infected a cluster of one of Australia’s rarest trees. The Wollemi pine, which dates from the dinosaur e...
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Chronicles Network Chupacabra Found?  
22:37 3-Sep-05   [Replies: 8, Views: 1487]    By: kyektulu
The Chupacabra (also known as a goat sucker) is an animal yet uncataloged by science and is said to be activly killing animals in places like Pauto Rico and Mexico. The creatures got its name after it...
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Chronicles Network Nessie Tooth?  
17:48 1-Jul-05   [Replies: 9, Views: 899]    By: dwndrgn
Have any of you heard the story about the tooth that was found in a deer carcass that is supposed to belong to an eel-type creature that many are sure is Ness monster? I just read about it and I find...
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Ask Me HelpDesk Evolution  
18:24 20-Jun-05   [Replies: 1, Views: 393]    By: Champ
As I understand it, according to Evolution Theory, in the vast passage of time in the past a species has gradually evolved (and will evolve in future) into another species when (1) the instinct to sur...
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Chronicles Network The Genographic project  
09:34 14-Apr-05   [Replies: 7, Views: 423]    By: knivesout
CHeck this out: Quote: The National Geographic Society, IBM, geneticist Spencer Wells, and the Waitt Family Foundation have launched the Genographic Project, a five-year ef...
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Chronicles Network New Human Species Found On Indonesian Island Of Flores  
08:56 28-Oct-04   [Replies: 8, Views: 612]    By: knivesout
Quote: In one of the most spectacular fossil finds in decades, anthropologists are to announce on Thursday they have found the bones of a tiny human who may have been a twig in ...
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Chronicles Network Bipedalism 2 million years older than thought?  
06:19 15-Sep-04   [Replies: 1, Views: 403]    By: littlemissattitude
According to National Geographic, bipedalism may have first appeared in hominids two million years earlier than paleontologists had thought: Quote: Computer analysis of a fossi...
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Chronicles Network New dino 'links major landmasses'  
14:11 5-Jun-04   [Replies: 0, Views: 373]    By: I, Brian
A cache of dinosaurs discovered in Niger may challenge our understanding of continental formation, US scientists have claimed this week. One of the dinosaurs - Rugops - was a wrinkle-faced carnivore...
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Chronicles Network Fossils hint at early complexity  
14:08 5-Jun-04   [Replies: 0, Views: 360]    By: I, Brian
Blob-like fossils dating back about 600 million years may indicate that complex life evolved much earlier on our planet than had been thought, scientists say. The animals are less than a fifth of a ...
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Chronicles Network Archaeopteryx had four wings  
08:36 30-May-04   [Replies: 1, Views: 412]    By: I, Brian
The first birds were probably four-winged gliders, and only later evolved into the sophisticated flapping fliers with light skeletons and two wings that we see today. This view of avian evolution is s...
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