Posted on November 5, 2009 by erlaurie
Much can be learnt from the composition, distribution and construction of dinosaur eggs, so will this new find shed more light on the lives of Dinosaurs?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8284695.stm
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Posted on October 2, 2008 by erlaurie
Many Dinosaur species are named from incomplete specimens, which is a result of the rarity of dinosaur fossils in general. Sometimes it’s hard to know whether you have a new species or a slight variation of something which is already known:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7620621.stm
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Posted on September 7, 2008 by erlaurie
The palaeontology of the earliest signs of life is a blend of chemistry and mineralogy. Uncertainty is part of life for people dealing with the most ancient evidence. Geologists are communally convinced that they have solid signs of life which are ~4.2 billion years old, but some samples seem to suggest an even earlier date.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7483451.stm
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Posted on August 21, 2008 by erlaurie
Many sites are left unprotected and are open to abuse by rogue traders who sell to rich collectors without thought for due scientific process. Here is one example:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7489038.stm
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Posted on June 12, 2008 by erlaurie
Dinosaur trackways have been found in Yeman on the Arabian peninsula, where evidence of dinosaur activity was previously limited:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7410032.stm
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Posted on May 7, 2008 by erlaurie
There has been a major landslip between Lyme Regis and CHarmouth on the Dorset “Jurassic Coast”. It’s likely that it will attract fossil hunters and palaeontologists seeking new finds:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7386923.stm
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Posted on April 16, 2008 by erlaurie
It has been suggested that elephants evolved from water-loving ancestors, similar in lifestyle to modern hippos:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7347284.stm
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Posted on April 13, 2008 by erlaurie
The Burgess Shale, in British Columbia, Canada, is famous for its preservation of soft bodied fossils from the Cambrian Period, when multicellular life was relatively new. It preserves an number of creatures which can be recognised as ancestors of our current biota as well as many other forms which were not successful in evolutionary terms.
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Posted on April 10, 2008 by erlaurie
A 40 million year old spider has been dicovered by an amateur collector and donated to the Natural History Museum in London:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7327038.stm
Previous amber finds have uncovered much about the evolution of spiders:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5075860.stm
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Posted on March 24, 2008 by erlaurie
Whilst marine reptiles are well known from the era of the dinosaurs, there is growing evidence that they also enjoyed a dip:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6687129.stm
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