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Do 3 meals a day keep fungi away?
The fact that they eat a lot - and often - may explain why most people and other mammals are protected from the majority of fungal pathogens, according to research from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.   view more (2009-10-16)

Dinosaur from Sahara ate like a 'mesozoic cow'
A 110 million-year-old dinosaur that had a mouth that worked like a vacuum cleaner, hundreds of tiny teeth and nearly translucent skull bones will be unveiled Thursday, Nov. 15, at the National Geographic Society.   view more (2007-11-16)

Fossils from ancient sea monster found in Montana
A fossil-hunting trip to celebrate a son's homecoming resulted in the recent discovery of an ancient sea monster in central Montana.   view more (2006-11-06)

Fragments of dinosaur protein survive in bone fossils
Proteins are tougher than we think - which is good news for scientists trying to piece together the history of evolution from fragments of ancient DNA. In this month’s (December 2000) edition of the journal, Geology, Dr Matthew Collins, of Newcastle University, England, shows how significant pieces of delicate protein have survived in... view more... (2000-12-18)

Fossil record supports evidence of impending mass extinction
Global temperatures predicted for the coming centuries may trigger a new 'mass extinction event', where over 50 per cent of animal and plant species would be wiped out, warn scientists at the Universities of York and Leeds.   view more (2007-10-24)

Molecular fossils uncover link between viruses and the immune system
Researchers from the Viikki Biocenter, University of Helsinki, show that atomic structures can reveal evolutionary history of viruses in a similar fashion as fossils did for the dinosaurs and reptiles. Their article is published in the April 15 issue of Molecular Cell.   view more (2005-04-14)

Amateur Finds Prehistoric Lizard
When amateur fossil finder Van Turner discovered a small vertebra at a construction site near Dallas 16 years ago, he knew the creature was unlike anything in the fossil record.   view more (2005-11-17)

Mongolian paleontologists with a dream come to MSU
Jack Horner has flown to Mongolia the past three summers to search for dinosaur bones. Now three members of his field crew have joined him at Montana State University to start developing a new generation of Mongolian paleontologists.   view more (2008-01-16)

Galaxy cluster smashes distance record
The most distant galaxy cluster yet has been discovered by combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical and infrared telescopes.   view more (2009-10-23)

Skull study sheds light on dinosaur diversity
With their long necks and tails, sauropod dinosaurs-famous as the Sinclair gasoline logo and Fred Flintstone's gravel pit tractor-are easy to recognize, in part because they all seem to look alike.   view more (2005-09-16)

Scientists Discover 'giant fossil frog from hell'
A team of researchers, led by Stony Brook University paleontologist David Krause, has discovered the remains in Madagascar of what may be the largest frog ever to exist.   view more (2008-02-20)

Discoverer of world's oldest stegosaur comes face to face with his find
The man who found evidence of the world's oldest stegosaur - a variety of armoured dinosaur - on a beach on Skye is to be presented with an artist's impression of the creature in Edinburgh, tomorrow, Friday.   view more (1999-09-08)

Study unravels why certain fishes went extinct 65 million years ago
Large size and a fast bite spelled doom for bony fishes during the last mass extinction 65 million years ago, according to a new study to be published March 31, 2009, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.   view more (2009-03-27)

Ancient T. rex and mastodon protein fragments discovered, sequenced
Scientists have confirmed the existence of protein in soft tissue recovered from the fossil bones of a 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex (T. rex) and a half-million-year-old mastodon.   view more (2007-04-13)

Ancient reptile rises from Alberta oil sands
One of the oldest and most complete plesiosaur fossils recovered in North America, and the oldest yet discovered from the Cretaceous Period, represents a new genus of the prehistoric aquatic predator according to University of Calgary palaeontologists who have formally described the creature after its remains were uncovered in a Syncrude Canada... view more... (2008-03-24)

Soft tissue taken from Tyrannosaurus rex fossil yields original protein
What happens when a 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex meets 21st century medical science? A North Carolina State University researcher and her colleagues at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found out when they confirmed the existence of protein in soft tissue recovered from the bone of a 68 million-year-old T.... view more... (2007-04-13)

Protective Storm in Space - a new explanation for the death of the dinosaurs
A shower of matter from space millions of years ago could have led to drastic changes in the Earth's climate, followed by the extinction of life on a massive scale, which also killed off the dinosaurs. This at least is a theory put forward by scientists from the University of Bonn. Normally, the solar wind acts as a shield against showers of... view more... (2002-06-04)

Amphibians in losing race with environmental change
Even though they had the ability to evolve and survive for hundreds of millions of years - since before the time of the dinosaurs and through many climatic regimes - the massive, worldwide decline of amphibians can best be understood by their inability to keep pace with the current rate of global change, a new study suggests.   view more (2007-05-01)

Jurassic Park inspirer awarded
Professor Svante P'¤'¤bo is the recipient of the Rudbeck Prize year 2000 at Uppsala University, Sweden, in recognition for his pioneering work in unravelling the origin of the modern man. Professor P'¤'¤bo first made world headlines in 1985 when he succeeded in isolating and decoding a short sequence of genetic code (DNA) from an Egyptian mummy... view more... (2000-09-14)

The humble beginnings of a king
Tyrannosaurus rex and related large carnivorous dinosaurs together form the family Tyrannosauridae. A long forgotten fossil skull in the collections of the Natural History Museum in London has now provided crucial clues to the early stages of the lengthy evolutionary history of these fearsome predators.   view more (2009-11-05)
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