[ad_1] The discovery 'confirms Archeopteryx as the first bird,' notes the researchers who analyzed the fossil. In the nearly 160 years since its discovery, Archeopteryx has become known as the "missing link" …
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[ad_1] A 150-million-year-old winged beast has been identified as the missing link between dinosaurs and birds. Archeopteryx albersdoerferi was able to fly thanks to its thin, inflated bones, similar to those of …
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[ad_1] October 25 (UPI) – Scientists have discovered a new species of the "missing link" between dinosaurs and birds, announced the University of Manchester in Britain. On the basis of physical characteristics, …
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[ad_1] The huge asteroid that swept over the Earth in Chicxulub, modern Mexico, 66 million years ago, was a global catastrophe that surpassed the best of modern science. In a few seconds, …
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[ad_1] Credit: University of Manchester Nicknamed "The Icon of Evolution" and the "missing link" between dinosaurs and birds, Archeopteryx has become one of the most famous fossil discoveries of paleontology. Today, within …
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[ad_1] YANJI, China (AP) — At the end of a street of newly built high-rises in the northern Chinese city of Yanji stands an exposed cliff face, where paleontologists scrape away 100 …
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[ad_1] By Christina Larson | AP October 25 at 02:01 YANJI, China – At the end of a newly built street of towers in Yanji City, in northern China, lies an exposed …
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[ad_1] Perhaps one of the world's best known fossils is Archeopteryx. With its beautifully preserved feathers, it has been considered as the first bird in the fossil record, and is often called …
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[ad_1] A mile-long sediment core drilled by the International Ocean Discovery Program helped researchers uncover how the Chicxulub crater formed. Credit: International Ocean Discovery Program Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid the …
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[ad_1] Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences In the oxygen-poor air of the Mesozoic era, nothing could have been very fast. But Velociraptors could run 64 kilometers per hour. According to a new …
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