Forget about dogs: Dinosaurs wagged their tails too
But it isn’t because they are happy – they use it to walk.
Dogs wag their tails when they are happy, but dinosaurs wagged their tails when they walked, according to new simulat...
Palaeontology
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Junior fossil hunters discover extinct giant penguin
A fossilised penguin found in New Zealand may have been 1.4 metres tall.
Back in 2006, children from the Hamilton Junior Naturalist Club went on a fossil-hunting field trip and stumbled acro...
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Huge new fossil species uncovered in Canada
Half-billion-year-old critter belonged to an extinct group of animals.
Palaeontologists have dug up a brand new animal species from the Cambrian era, more than 500 million years ago. Remar...
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Fossil found in Brazilian police raid is best preserved of its kind
Illegal trade bust reveals a remarkable specimen of a ground-dwelling pterosaur.
An extraordinarily well-preserved pterosaur fossil, fondly referred to as one of the “crown jewels of the Museum of G...
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Unicorns did exist – but they were probably rhinos, not horses
Monstrous rhino “unicorn” species survived for longer than previously thought.
What’s four metres long, 2.5 metres high, weighs 3.5 tonnes and has a preposterously large horn in the middle of its ...
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New prehistoric “Hobbit” from the dawn of the Age of Mammals
Proof that mammals thrived once dinosaurs were out of the way.
Researchers from the University of Colorado have described three previously unknown mammal species that lived not lon...
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The journey of a 17,000-year-old woolly mammoth
The mammoth covered enough of Alaska’s ranging wilds to circle the Earth twice over – in only 28 ...
Some 17,000 years ago a male woolly mammoth, gaunt and weak from a winter of starvation, perished on Alaska’s North S...
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Two new dinosaur species identified
Fresh fossil finds in China throw light on sauropods
Hamititan (on the left) and Silutitan (on the right), walking over a nesting area of the pterosaur Hamipterus. Credit...
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Prehistoric dragons flew over Australia
Savage pterosaur with seven-metre wingspan named.
Australia’s largest flying pterosaur, which was as fearsome as a dragon and swooped like a magpie, has been named. ...
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Did the slowing of the Earth's rotation create life as we know it?
The slow pace of life’s evolution may be because of long days
Animals may have evolved because the Earth's rotation slowed, resulting in longer days and higher oxygen, according t...
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Dog days in prehistoric Europe
Remains suggest wild hunting dogs arrived in Europe more than 1.7 million years ago.
Scientists have unearthed the earliest evidence of wild hunting dogs in Europe, from more than 1.7 million years ago ...
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In search of the oldest animal
Sponge-like fossil found in ancient reef might be the earliest evidence of animal life.
In the latest instalment in the quest to find our oldest animal ancestor, a Canadian geologist has unearthed a sponge...