Dinosaurs & Fossils

LiveScience.com - Fossils of what could be the oldest animal bodies have been detected in Australia, pulling behind the time on when animal hold up initial appeared on Earth to at slightest 70 million years progressing than formerly thought.

Two very old animal skeleton from Ethiopia uncover signs of butchering by tellurian ancestors, relocating behind the beginning justification for the use of mill collection by about 800,000 years, researchers say.

SPACE.com - A spot on Mars called Nili Fossae which is abounding in clay mineral-rich rocks could be a prime spot to poke for the fossilized stays of Martian hold up which may have existed 4 billion years ago, a new investigate suggests.
LiveScience.com - A clawed, rapacious dinosaur may have been held in the act of digging for mammalian prey, scientists now reveal.

Scientists in Brazil say a hoary of an elephant's tooth found in the Amazon jungle proves the participation of pachyderms in South America a little 45,000 years ago, a inform pronounced on Tuesday.

LiveScience.com - A three-horned dinosaur prolonged well known as Torosaurus may essentially paint an adult Triceratops, according to paleontologists.

Scientists have detected a cavern filled with 15-million-year-old fossils of antiquated marsupials in the Outback, a singular find which has suggested a little startling similarities in between the creatures and modern-day kangaroos and koalas.

LiveScience.com - More than 20 marsupials, a little still suckling newborns, plunged to their deaths 15 million years ago by a straight cavern opening obscured by vegetation, new hoary justification suggests.

The final forerunner common by monkeys and humans substantially lived in in between 28 and 24 million years ago, multiform million after than formerly thought, fossils denounced Wednesday have revealed.

LiveScience.com - As fearsome as hulk tyrannosaurs such as T. rex were, scientists have found what may be the initial justification of these "terrible lizards" being off-hand scavengers.