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A leading geneticist professor has claimed that modern man and Neanderthals would have had sex across the species barrier. Fossils have been found with both Neanderthal and modern human characteristics. In other animals, such as lions and tigers, where sex between species is known any offspring have always been infertile. Was the same true of modern man and Neanderthals?
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Neanderthals had Sex with Modern Man
30 Oct, 2009
Unicorn Fly Discovered
29 Oct, 2009
Scientists have discovered a new species of fly never before seen that lived 100 million years ago. It has been dubbed the ‘unicorn fly’ because of the small horn protruding from the head, capped by three eyes that would have enabled it to see predators approaching. The fly has been extremely well preserved in amber. Amber is the sap of trees that has been fossilised over geological time.
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Giant Pliosaur Skull Found
28 Oct, 2009
An enormous skull of the meat-eating Pliosaur has been discovered on the world famous Jurassic Coast in Dorset. The skull is 2.4 metres long and palaeontologist estimate that the entire creature would have measured a massive 16 metres long. It was discovered by a local collector whilst out walking and its exact location is being kept a secret. Continue Reading…
Mass Dinosaur Find
27 Oct, 2009
American palaeontologists have discovered a huge number of dinosaur bones – over 4,200 in total – in Utah. The strange thing about the bones is that nearly all have been broken into pieces. 67 different species of dinosaur have been identified with dinosaurs of all sizes and ages. Continue Reading…
America’s Smallest Dinosaur
24 Oct, 2009
Not all dinosaurs were large and fierce. America’s smallest dinosaur is being studied at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. It was only 71cm long and weighed under one kilogram. The dinosaur has been named Fruitadens, which means ‘fruit teeth’ although its diet would have consisted of mainly plants but also insects and some small animals. Continue Reading…
New Dinosaur Extinction Theory
22 Oct, 2009
For a long time the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico was though to be the site of the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Now Professor Sankar Chatterjee has proposed that the Shiva basin that is mainly under the sea to the west of India is the point of impact for the meteor that caused the extinction. The Shiva basin is probably the largest impact crater known on this planet at some 40 kilometres in diameter.
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World’s Smallest Footprint
16 Oct, 2009
A new discovery of a dinosaur footprint in South Korea has proved to be the world’s smallest dinosaur footprint. The specimen which dates back to the early Cretaceous times is just 1.27cm by 1.06cm in size. This is smaller than a five pence piece. Prior to this discovery the title of smallest dinosaur footprint, as recognised by the Guinness Book of Records, went to one discovered in the Isle of Skye, Scotland, which was just 1.78cm by 1.16cm.
New Evolving Pterosaur
14 Oct, 2009
Twenty new fossils of a new type of Pterosaur have been discovered in north eastern China. They are thought to be transitional species that link the two main Pterosaur groups, and have been named Darwinopterus after Charles Darwin. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that dominated the skies at the same time as dinosaurs ruled the land. Darwinopterus, which dates back 160 million years, has a head and neck like an advanced Pterosaur and the remainder of its body is like a primitive Pterosaur.
New Study on Archaeopteryx
13 Oct, 2009
A new study on Archaeopteryx by the American Museum of Natural History has put forward the theory that Archaeopteryx is far more of a dinosaur than a bird. When originally discovered in 1860, just a year after Charles Darwin had published ‘On the Origin of Species’, Archaeopteryx was seen as the ideal ‘missing link’ as it had both dinosaur and bird characteristics. The new study shows the bones to be very dense and slow growing Continue Reading…
Climate Change and Mass Extinction
9 Oct, 2009
Climate change and mass extinctions are not a new phenomenon. They have happened on a regular basis throughout the geological life of this planet. The dinosaurs demise was part of a mass extinction that also killed off many other animals including marine reptiles, pterosaurs, and ammonites. Present day concern for saving the planet is much more about saving ourselves, humans, as prehistoric shows that the Earth would survive any such change.
The division of the Palaeocene and Eocene periods 55 million years ago saw the last dramatic rise in temperature, up by 9C in only a few thousand years. This is similar to the worse forecasts for the present day. Large-scale decomposition of peat caused a carbon spike. This sudden spike in CO2 was followed by Continue Reading…
