A global study of ancient dog DNA presents evidence that there were different types of dogs more than 11,000 years ago in the period immediately following the Ice Age.
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29/10/2020
Study of Ancient Dog DNA Traces Canine Diversity to the Ice Age
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21/09/2020
18 Million Year Old Sperm Whale With 'Needle-Shaped' Snout
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Reinout VerbekePaleontologists have excavated and described one of the oldest fossil sperm whales. The new species from Peru is approximately 18 million years old. Rhaphicetus valenciae was about 5 metres long and had an extremely long snout and slender, pointed teeth.
08/09/2020
Eternal Sleep: Dinosaurs Died Underground, Fossils Perfectly Preserved
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Reinout VerbekePalaeontologists have described a new species of burrowing dinosaur from China. Two intact fossils of Changmiania liaoningensis suggest that the animals were trapped by a volcanic eruption while resting at the bottom of their burrows.
28/07/2020
Owl Discovered That Hunted Like A Hawk 55 Million Years Ago
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Siska Van ParysPaleontologists have described a large owl that killed medium-sized mammals with its feet and claws some 55 million years ago. “Today, owls kill with their beak," says paleontologist Thierry Smith (RBINS), who participated to the study of the well-preserved skeleton from Wyoming, USA.
30/04/2020
3 Million Year Old Skeleton From Port of Antwerp New Puzzle Piece In Whale Evolution
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Reinout VerbekePaleontologists have described a new baleen whale species that swam around the North Sea some 3 million years ago. Antwerpibalaena liberatlas is an extinct cousin of the modern right whales.
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