Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2078 science Dinosaurs & Fossils News en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:45:59 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2078 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/sc_nm/us_australia_dinosaurs nm/20090703/us_australia_dinosaurs Reuters science Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:45:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/sc_nm/us_australia_dinosaurs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246609387228-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=43&q=85&sig=suSrZA5Be68oSp9Ns96ydg--" align="left" height="43" width="130" alt="A handout image released by the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History shows 'Banjo' Australovenator wintonensis. Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.(AFP/Travis Tischler)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Fossils of three new species of dinosaurs have been discovered in Australia, including a meat-eater larger than Velociraptor from the Jurassic Park movies, suggesting Australia may have a more complex prehistoric past.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090703/sc_nm/us_australia_dinosaurs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246609387228-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=43&q=85&sig=suSrZA5Be68oSp9Ns96ydg--" align="left" height="43" width="130" alt="photo" title="A handout image released by the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History shows 'Banjo' Australovenator wintonensis. Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.(AFP/Travis Tischler)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_sc/as_australia_dinosaurs ap/20090703/as_australia_dinosaurs AP science Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:27:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_sc/as_australia_dinosaurs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.f1f69fc6510644f7a0168d8223750577.australia_dinosaurs_win101.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=bhsrO.y0iC4OPZMlIBIIww--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="In this undated photo supplied by Queensland Museum, paleontologist Scott Hocknull analyses the Diamantinasaurus fossils in Winton, in central Queensland, Australia. Scientists have confirmed for the first time that Australia was once home to a dinosaur that was big, fast and terrifying, and has a name like something from an Arnold Schwazennegger movie. Meet the Australovenator. (AP Photo/Queensland Museum, HO)" border="0" /></a>AP - Scientists have confirmed for the first time that Australia was once home to a dinosaur that was big, fast and terrifying, and they've named it like something from an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Meet the Australovenator.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_sc/as_australia_dinosaurs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.f1f69fc6510644f7a0168d8223750577.australia_dinosaurs_win101.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=bhsrO.y0iC4OPZMlIBIIww--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this undated photo supplied by Queensland Museum, paleontologist Scott Hocknull analyses the Diamantinasaurus fossils in Winton, in central Queensland, Australia. Scientists have confirmed for the first time that Australia was once home to a dinosaur that was big, fast and terrifying, and has a name like something from an Arnold Schwazennegger movie. Meet the Australovenator. (AP Photo/Queensland Museum, HO)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/sc_afp/scienceaustraliapalaeontologydinosaur afp/20090703/scienceaustraliapalaeontologydinosaur AFP science Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:11:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/sc_afp/scienceaustraliapalaeontologydinosaur"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246609252391-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=QTd.8z8a0FAQXzz9fXxSYg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Will Murphy, 7, inspects the teeth of a Theropod dinosaur at an exhibition at the Melbourne Museum, 2008. Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.(AFP/File/William West)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090703/sc_afp/scienceaustraliapalaeontologydinosaur"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090703/capt.photo_1246609252391-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=QTd.8z8a0FAQXzz9fXxSYg--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Will Murphy, 7, inspects the teeth of a Theropod dinosaur at an exhibition at the Melbourne Museum, 2008. Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.(AFP/File/William West)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_sc/as_sci_myanmar_primate_fossil ap/20090702/as_sci_myanmar_primate_fossil AP science Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:00:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_sc/as_sci_myanmar_primate_fossil"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.7fbe361f96c64488be6fb18bb5b9de7b.myanmar_primate_fossil_paks401.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=0uLkmvm0wEJ.A5Uj89w3_w--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="This image, provided by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, is an artist's conception what they call a life reconstruction of Ganlea megacanina by Mark A. Klingler. Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday,July 1. 2009. Fossils - which the scientists dubbed Ganlea megacanina - came from 10 to 15 individuals of a new species that belonged to an extinct family of Asian anthropoid primates known as Amphipithecidae. (AP Photo/Carnegie Museum of Natural History/Mark A. Klingler)" border="0" /></a>AP - Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_sc/as_sci_myanmar_primate_fossil"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090702/capt.7fbe361f96c64488be6fb18bb5b9de7b.myanmar_primate_fossil_paks401.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=0uLkmvm0wEJ.A5Uj89w3_w--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="photo" title="This image, provided by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, is an artist's conception what they call a life reconstruction of Ganlea megacanina by Mark A. Klingler. Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday,July 1. 2009. Fossils - which the scientists dubbed Ganlea megacanina - came from 10 to 15 individuals of a new species that belonged to an extinct family of Asian anthropoid primates known as Amphipithecidae. (AP Photo/Carnegie Museum of Natural History/Mark A. Klingler)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090630/ts_alt_afp/scienceusreligionevolution afp/20090630/scienceusreligionevolution AFP us Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:40:28 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090630/ts_alt_afp/scienceusreligionevolution"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090630/capt.photo_1246368919264-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=UCyFbQAbZGYBZ8WPA2vFQQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Ken A. Ham President and Chief Executive Officer of Answer in Genesis stands with a mechanical Utahraptor at The Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, in 2007. For a group of paleontologists, a tour of the Creation Museum, which has been dubbed a "creationist Disneyland," seemed like a great tongue-in-cheek way to cap off a serious conference.(AFP/File/Jeff Haynes)" border="0" /></a>AFP - For a group of paleontologists, a tour of the Creation Museum seemed like a great tongue-in-cheek way to cap off a serious conference.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090630/ts_alt_afp/scienceusreligionevolution"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090630/capt.photo_1246368919264-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=UCyFbQAbZGYBZ8WPA2vFQQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Ken A. Ham President and Chief Executive Officer of Answer in Genesis stands with a mechanical Utahraptor at The Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, in 2007. For a group of paleontologists, a tour of the Creation Museum, which has been dubbed a "creationist Disneyland," seemed like a great tongue-in-cheek way to cap off a serious conference.(AFP/File/Jeff Haynes)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090629/sc_afp/spainpaleontologycamel afp/20090629/spainpaleontologycamel AFP science Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:41:34 GMT AFP - Spanish researchers said Monday they have discovered evidence of a previously unknown type of camel which lived in Europe six million years ago. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090625/sc_livescience/toothy3footpiranhafossilfound livescience/20090625/toothy3footpiranhafossilfound LiveScience.com science Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:02:19 GMT LiveScience.com - If you thought piranhas were scary, be glad Megapiranha is no longer around. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090625/ap_on_re_us/us_dinosaur_crimes ap/20090625/us_dinosaur_crimes AP us Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:01:38 GMT AP - Renowned dinosaur hunter Nathan Murphy was sentenced Wednesday to four months in a halfway house and three years probation after pleading guilty to stealing fossils. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090624/ap_on_re_us/us_paleontologists_creation_museum ap/20090624/us_paleontologists_creation_museum AP us Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:56:42 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090624/ap_on_re_us/us_paleontologists_creation_museum"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/net/20090624/capt.3fa630726e9d5846373746a4de00778f.jpeg?x=104&y=130&q=85&sig=1nlQgKNxh2LAd2g3PVRcWA--" align="left" height="130" width="104" alt="B. Roger Moore, a paleobotanist who was a speaker at a paleontology conference at the University of Cincinnati, takes notes as he looks over an exhibit at the Creation Museum, where about 80 of the conference attendees went for a field trip in Petersburg, Ky., Tuesday, June 23, 2009. (AP Photo/ The Kentucky Enquire, Patrick Reddy)" border="0" /></a>AP - In a dimly lit corner of the Creation Museum stands a life-size replica of a wrecking ball labeled "Millions of Years" demolishing the facade of a brick church.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090624/ap_on_re_us/us_paleontologists_creation_museum"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/net/20090624/capt.3fa630726e9d5846373746a4de00778f.jpeg?x=104&y=130&q=85&sig=1nlQgKNxh2LAd2g3PVRcWA--" align="left" height="130" width="104" alt="photo" title="B. Roger Moore, a paleobotanist who was a speaker at a paleontology conference at the University of Cincinnati, takes notes as he looks over an exhibit at the Creation Museum, where about 80 of the conference attendees went for a field trip in Petersburg, Ky., Tuesday, June 23, 2009. (AP Photo/ The Kentucky Enquire, Patrick Reddy)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090623/ap_on_sc/as_indonesia_prehistoric_elephant ap/20090623/as_indonesia_prehistoric_elephant AP science Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:15:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090623/ap_on_sc/as_indonesia_prehistoric_elephant"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090623/capt.cbb2a2e38376433fb6d346559787599a.indonesia_prehistoric_elephant__da102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=0TQz5ZP_O4pIiS7HD8dLKw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Scientists arrange the bones of an estimated 200,000 year-old giant elephant at Geology Museum in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, Thursday, June 18, 2009. Indonesian scientists are reconstructing the largest, most complete skeleton of an ancient elephant ever found in the tropics, a finding that may offer new clues into the largely mysterious origins of its modern Asian cousin. Based on the fossil, the ancient elephant stood four meters (13-feet) tall, was five meters (16-feet) long and weighed more than 10 tons, considerably larger than the great Asian mammals now on Earth. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)" border="0" /></a>AP - Indonesian scientists are reconstructing the largest, most complete skeleton of a prehistoric giant elephant ever found in the tropics, a finding that may offer new clues into the largely mysterious origins of its modern Asian cousin.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090623/ap_on_sc/as_indonesia_prehistoric_elephant"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090623/capt.cbb2a2e38376433fb6d346559787599a.indonesia_prehistoric_elephant__da102.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=0TQz5ZP_O4pIiS7HD8dLKw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Scientists arrange the bones of an estimated 200,000 year-old giant elephant at Geology Museum in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, Thursday, June 18, 2009. Indonesian scientists are reconstructing the largest, most complete skeleton of an ancient elephant ever found in the tropics, a finding that may offer new clues into the largely mysterious origins of its modern Asian cousin. Based on the fossil, the ancient elephant stood four meters (13-feet) tall, was five meters (16-feet) long and weighed more than 10 tons, considerably larger than the great Asian mammals now on Earth. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090622/sc_livescience/oldestelephantrelativefound livescience/20090622/oldestelephantrelativefound LiveScience.com science Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:06:31 GMT LiveScience.com - Scientists have discovered fossilized remains of the oldest known elephant relative, dating back 60 million years. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090621/sc_livescience/giantdinosaursgetdownsized livescience/20090621/giantdinosaursgetdownsized LiveScience.com science Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:05:58 GMT LiveScience.com - Some dinosaurs were the largest creatures ever to walk on land, including the classic long-necked, whip-tailed Diplodicus, but a new study suggests it and its many extinct brethren weighed as little as half as much as previously thought. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090618/sc_livescience/evidencefoundforancientsupersizedsperm livescience/20090618/evidencefoundforancientsupersizedsperm LiveScience.com science Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:40:39 GMT LiveScience.com - The fossilized remains of a tiny 100 million-year-old crustacean reveal evidence of what to her at least would have been giant sperm, measuring perhaps as long as her body. While the sperm itself was not preserved, 3-D images of the female's specialized receptacles indicate she had just finished having sex and that they were filled with sperm that has since degraded. (The oldest direct evidence of sperm comes from a springtail living some 40 million years ago, according to the researchers. ... http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090617/sc_livescience/nutcrackingdinosaurlikeagiantparrot livescience/20090617/nutcrackingdinosaurlikeagiantparrot LiveScience.com health Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:23:56 GMT LiveScience.com - A newly described dinosaur hopefully suffered no nut allergies. Fossil remains suggest the parrot-beaked beast that lived 110 million years ago was a sophisticated nutcracker, researchers said this week. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090617/sc_afp/sciencepalaeontologydinosaursbirds afp/20090617/sciencepalaeontologydinosaursbirds AFP science Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:10:02 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090617/sc_afp/sciencepalaeontologydinosaursbirds"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090617/capt.photo_1245262133716-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=yIjlMb.zWdDvdykZTdeQrQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="China's fossil hunter Xu Xing (R) briefs the media in 2007. A young dinosaur that fatefully wandered into a mudpool around 155 million years could help explain the mysterious evolution of birds, says the world's most famous fossil-hunter.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A young dinosaur that fatefully wandered into a mudpool around 155 million years could help explain the mysterious evolution of birds, says the world's most famous fossil-hunter.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090617/sc_afp/sciencepalaeontologydinosaursbirds"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090617/capt.photo_1245262133716-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=yIjlMb.zWdDvdykZTdeQrQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="China's fossil hunter Xu Xing (R) briefs the media in 2007. A young dinosaur that fatefully wandered into a mudpool around 155 million years could help explain the mysterious evolution of birds, says the world's most famous fossil-hunter.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090617/sc_livescience/fossilsolvesmysteryofdinosaurfingerevolution livescience/20090617/fossilsolvesmysteryofdinosaurfingerevolution LiveScience.com science Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:27:14 GMT LiveScience.com - Bird wings clearly share ancestry with dinosaur "hands" or forelimbs. A school kid can see it in the bones. But paleontologists have long struggled to explain the so-called digit dilemma. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090605/ap_on_sc/us_dinosaur_bones ap/20090605/us_dinosaur_bones AP science Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:19:21 GMT AP - Scientists at one of Utah's major new dinosaur quarries have found 60 to 70 new bones this spring, including what appears to be a 20-foot-long neck bone discovered this week.