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Scientists link mystery foot to ancient human relative
AFP, Published on 27/11/2025
» PARIS - Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient human relative who lived alongside the species of the famous “Lucy”, scientists said on Wednesday.
New T-Rex ancestor discovered in drawers of Mongolian institute
AFP, Published on 12/06/2025
» PARIS - Misidentified bones that languished in the drawers of a Mongolian institute for 50 years belong to a new species of tyrannosaur that rewrites the family history of the mighty T-Rex, scientists said on Wednesday.
T-Rex skeleton wows Singaporeans before auction
Published on 28/10/2022
» SINGAPORE: The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex drew thousands of visitors in Singapore on Friday eager to have a look at the huge fossil before it heads for auction in Hong Kong.
36-million-year-old whale fossil found in Peruvian desert
AFP, Published on 18/03/2022
» LIMA: Paleontologists unveiled the fossilized remains of an ancient whale that inhabited the seas 36 million years ago, found last year in a Peruvian desert.
Teenage T-Rexes edged out smaller dinosaur species, says study
AFP, Published on 26/02/2021
» WASHINGTON - A team of US scientists has demonstrated that the offspring of huge carnivorous dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex, who grew from the size of house cats to towering monsters, reshaped their ecosystems by outcompeting smaller rival species.
Dinosaurs got cancer too, say scientists
AFP, Published on 06/08/2020
» OTTAWA - Dinosaurs loom in the imagination as forces of nature, but a new study that identifies the first known case of cancer in the creatures shows they suffered from the debilitating disease too.
America's crocodiles came out of Africa
AFP, Published on 24/07/2020
» PARIS: The several species of crocodiles plying rivers and brackish byways in the Americas -- from Florida to Peru -- all came from Africa, according to a study published on Thursday.
Largest flying animal in history identified: study
AFP, Published on 11/09/2019
» PARIS - Scientists on Tuesday unveiled a new species pterosaur, the plane-sized reptiles that lorded over primeval skies above T-rex, Triceratops and other dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous.
Hidden mysteries lie in wait inside Kenya's fossil treasury
AFP, Published on 09/08/2019
» NAIROBI - The only hint that something extraordinary lay inside the plain wooden drawer in an unassuming office behind Nairobi National Museum was a handwritten note stuck to the front: "Pull Carefully".
Crocs were once vegetarians
AFP, Published on 28/06/2019
» WASHINGTON: Crocodiles are sometimes described as living fossils for their close resemblance to their forebears who roamed the Earth during the age of the dinosaurs.