Scientists have discovered extinct strains of smallpox in the teeth of Viking skeletons — proving for the first time that the killer disease plagued humanity for at least 1400 years. …read more Source:: Science
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How birds evolved big brains
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•Evolutionary biologists and paleontologists have reconstructed the evolution of the avian brain using a massive dataset of brain volumes from dinosaurs, extinct birds like Archaeopteryx and the great auk, and …read more Source:: Science
Some extinct crocs were vegetarians
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•Based on careful study of fossilized teeth, scientists have found that multiple ancient groups of crocodyliforms — the group including living and extinct relatives of crocodiles and alligators — were …read more Source:: Science
Origins of giant extinct New Zealand bird traced to Africa
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•Scientists have revealed the African origins of New Zealand’s most mysterious giant flightless bird — the now extinct adzebill — showing that some of its closest living relatives are the …read more Source:: Science
New gibbon genus discovered in ancient Chinese tomb
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•Bones of an entirely new but already extinct genus of gibbon have been discovered in China, revealing the magnitude of human-caused extinction of primates. …read more Source:: Science
25 years of fossil collecting yields clearest picture of extinct 12-foot aquatic predator
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•More than two decades of exploration at a Pennsylvania fossil site have given paleontologists their best idea of how a giant, prehistoric predator would have looked and behaved. …read more Source:: Science
The oldest plesiosaur was a strong swimmer
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•Plesiosaurs were especially effective swimmer. These long extinct ‘paddle saurians’ propelled themselves through the World’s oceans by employing ‘underwater flight’ — similar to sea turtles and penguins. The find comes …read more Source:: Science
Dolphin that existed along South Carolina coast long ago
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•Researchers have discovered a species of extinct dolphin off the coast of South Carolina. …read more Source:: Science
Endangered Australasian marsupials are ancient survivors of climate change
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•An international team of researchers has analyzed fossils and DNA from living and recently extinct species to show that conservation sensitive Australasian marsupials are much older than previously thought. …read more Source:: Science
African clawed frog genome contains 2 full sets of chromosomes from 2 extinct ancestors
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•Millions of years ago, one species of frog diverged into two species. Millions of years later, the two frogs became one again, but with a few extra chromosomes due to …read more Source:: Science