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Dinosaurs were in their prime before asteroid downfall, study finds - OLD

Scientists have long debated why non-bird dinosaurs became extinct, while some mammals survived.

The Independent UK

Oldest-known DNA reveals life in a much warmer Greenland 2 million years ago (including, surprise, mastodons)

The research revealed an ancient ecosystem unlike anything seen on Earth today, including traces of mastodons and horseshoe crabs roaming the Arctic.

Chicago Sun-Times

Oldest DNA Reveals Life in Greenland 2 Million Years Ago

Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland. Today, it’s a barren Arctic desert, but back then it was a lush landscape of trees and vegetation with an array of animals, even the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Oldest DNA reveals life in Greenland 2 million years ago

Scientists have discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland

The Independent UK

A Trio Of Friends Went Looking For Fossils In Outback Qld Found A 100 Million-YO Sea Dinosaur

It'll be the first known head and body of this species of dinosaur to be held together in a museum!

Pedestrian.tv

Ankylosaurs battled each other as much as they fought off T. rex

The scientists found new evidence for how armoured dinosaurs used their famous tail clubs.

The Independent UK

WA's 'shark graveyard' offers glimpse of prehistoric monster, the megalodon shark

A massive tooth recently uncovered in a biodiversity survey off the WA coast offers a rare glimpse of the megalodon shark, an ancient ocean predator that had no peer.

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Australia's first complete plesiosaur fossil discovered in outback Queensland

Palaeontologists who visited a remote property to investigate reports of a large fossil have confirmed a discovery dating back 100 million years.

ABC News

Morning Mail: citizenship cancellations ruled illegal, breast milk trade warning, ‘Rosetta Stone’ of dinosaur finds

In today’s newsletter: controversial withdrawal of Australian rights from overseas prisoners is reversed; Morocco stun Spain in World Cup

The Guardian - AU

Queensland graziers unearth 100m-year-old plesiosaur remains likened to Rosetta Stone

Amateur fossil hunters find skull connected to body of marine giant elasmosaur for the first time in Australia

The Guardian - AU

Yellowstone supervolcano has much more magma than previously thought, study finds

‘This is about getting a clearer image of what is down there and what has been down there for a while’

The Independent UK

The Field’s Sue lends a hand to paleontologists studying why T. Rex arms are so short

T. rex’s arm will be CT scanned Wednesday at the University of Chicago.

Chicago Sun-Times

Making sense of Cop15: what to look out for in Montreal

Everything you need to know about the once-in-a-decade chance to stop the loss of biodiversity – and how you can help

The Guardian - UK

What would the world look like if big dinosaurs survived the asteroid strike?

This catastrophic event made human evolution possible. The surviving mammals flourished, including little proto-primates that would evolve into us.

Inverse

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Extinction fightback begins in Uganda with 1million species at risk of dying out

The Mirror get up close to a 19-strong troop of gorillas making real change in biodiverse Uganda - as one of the greatest conservation success stories of our time is celebrated

The Guardian - UK

Fossil found in drawer is found to be oldest known modern lizard

Specimen collected in 1950s pushes back origins of squamates by at least 34m years

The Independent UK

Scientists discover new duck-like dinosaur

Research suggests dinosaur had long neck similar to modern water birds like geese

The Independent UK

First ever duck-like dinosaur with streamlined body discovered

Research suggests dinosaur had long neck similar to modern water birds like geese

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Catastrophic meteor impact on Mars eerily similar to the asteroid that annihilated most dinosaurs — study

3.4 billion years ago, an unnervingly familiar cataclysm struck Mars.

The Independent UK

Mars mega-tsunami may have been caused by asteroid strike, study suggests

Before the new study the location of the crater caused by the impact was unclear.

The Conversation

Recently found 'Neanderthal footprints' in the South of Spain could be 275,000 years old

A little over a year ago we reported on a large area at the foot of the Asperillo cliff, on the coast of the Doñana Natural Area in Huelva, Spain. There, along with numerous animal footprints, other footprints had been found – those of hominids.

The Guardian - UK

CT scans of toothed bird fossil leads to jaw-dropping discovery

Dating back more than 65m years, specimen’s mobile palate challenges understanding of avian evolution

The Independent UK

Fossil ‘overturns more than a century of knowledge about origin of modern birds’

Each of the roughly 11,000 species of birds on Earth today is classified into one of two groups, based on the arrangement of their palate bones.

The Guardian - UK

‘Another slice of triceratops, Barbara?’ Did the fearsome T rexes take care of their sick?

The skeleton of ‘Barbara’, a pregnant and injured tyrannosaurus, raises a shocking possibility: that these dinosaurs had a touchy-feely side

Tribune News Service

The first mass extinction event was from a lack of oxygen, researchers find

Scientists have speculated for years that the world is coming up on its sixth mass extinction, when a majority of the Earth’s creatures become extinct. But a couple of Virginia Tech researchers are studying what happened in the first extinction in hopes of avoiding another.

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