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Steve Carrell and James Gandolfini to star in a movie about feuding archaeologists called ‘Bone Wars’
HBO Films recently announced ‘Bone Wars’, a comedy about feuding archaeologists starring Steve Carrell and James Gandolfini.
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posted 18 April, 2013
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Some tyrannosaurs may have been swimmers. We’re gonna need a much bigger boat
Everyone knows that if you’re being chased by a dinosaur, the best thing you can do is get in a boat and row away, because obviously, dinosaurs can’t swim. Except some of them could, specifically, a kind of tyrannosaur that was apparently fond of swimming across rivers. Where’s your dino god now?
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posted 11 April, 2013
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Did dinosaurs give milk to their young?
First it was dinosaurs with wings, now some paleontologists think that some dinosaurs might have fed their offspring with milk, or at least a milk-like substance rich in antibodies and growth hormones. Some birds like flamingos and penguins do it, so it’s actually not that much of a stretch to think that some dinos may have as well.
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posted 11 February, 2013
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Smiling dinosaur looks like it came out of that damn Disney ‘Dinosaurs’ movie
Disney’s ‘Dinosaurs’ was a low point in Disney’s history, even though it was one of their first non-Pixar computer animated films. I’m sorry, I just couldn’t get over dinosaurs with human-like teeth. That just bugged the shit out of me. But now it looks like I was wrong— there apparently was at least one dinosaur that had creepy human teeth.
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posted 20 December, 2012
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Kids in Michigan go fishing, pull up a 13,000 year old mastodon bone instead
When 11 year old cousins Eric Stamatin and Andrew Gainariu went fishing, it was supposed to be like any kid’s fishing trips, but instead of bringing home a big fish, the two boys ended up discovering a 13,000 year old mastodon bone. And mastodons are definitely cooler than pond fish.
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posted 14 December, 2012
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Need a Hanukkah menorah? How about one in the shape of a trilobite?
You know, in case you want to count the days in geological epochs.
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posted 10 December, 2012
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Earliest known dinosaur discovered in museum storage
When things like dinosaur bones come out of the ground, after they’re neatly packed and labeled, they often go into storage either at a museum or university to await study. And sometimes, they sit there in storage for a really long time before anyone knows exactly what was found. Case in point is a dinosaur skeleton 10-15 million years older than anything on record that had been chilling in London’s Natural History museum since the 1930s.
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posted 05 December, 2012
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Complete mammoth skeleton found near Paris
Paris has a lot of things to see and do, and you can now add one more rarity to the list— an almost complete mammoth skeleton. Perhaps it might now be le cloning time?
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posted 25 November, 2012
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Sauropods may or may not have had elephant-like trunks
It’s one thing to look at fossils to determine the size and general shape of a dinosaur, but trying to figure out external features that would have been shaped by soft tissue is another. Some scientists think sauropod may have had a trunk like an elephant, but because that would have been constructed from muscle and tendons, no one really knows.
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posted 25 November, 2012
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Xenocerotops, the alien horned face dinosaur, discovered in Canada
Triceratops was a cool dinosaur, but the recently discovered xenocerotops is even cooler. Xenocerotops was so named upon its discovery because of its badass arrangement of facial horns that makes it look like something out of sci-fi.
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posted 11 November, 2012
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Newly discovered dinosaur named “Sauron” after the character in Lord of the Rings
Earlier this years, paleontologists came upon a 95 year old skull fragment that they later concluded didn’t belong to any known dinosaur species. This new species, a relative of Allosaurus, was named “Sauron” after the evil demonic character from Lord of the Rings.
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posted 06 November, 2012
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Who would win in a fistfight between a modern human and a Neanderthal?
Without a big advance in genetics technology, it’s not a fight that’s going to ever happen, but if it could— and it probably once did— who would win in a one-on-one weapons-free brawl between a Neanderthal and a Homo sapien? The Neanderthal has the definite weight and strength advantage, but humans have more endurance, are quicker and are smarter. It’s like a classic brains vs brawn comic book brawl…
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posted 26 October, 2012
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Dinos developed feathers to look sexy, not to fly
After being fed a lifetime of pictures of featherless dinos, it still may be hard to wrap one’s head around some dinosaurs being feathered. At least it is for me. But for those beasts of death that did have feathers, apparently they did so because it was sexy, not because they were flying or anything.
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posted 26 October, 2012
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21st century versions of stone and flint tools
Because everything that’s really really really old is now suddenly new again. Mockups created by Ami Drach and Dov Ganchrow of Tel Aviv.
Ancient spider captured forever in amber, just as it’s about to have dinner
This is a spider, which was encased in tree sap while in the act of attacking a wasp. The sap turned to amber, leaving an incredible preserved scene, with even individual strands of silk from the spider’s web remaining unbroken for 100 million years.
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posted 15 October, 2012
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