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  • Just what are fossils, anyway? (associatedcontent)

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    While preparing to build a new substation in an arid canyon southeast of Los Angeles, Southern California Edison has stumbled on a trove of animal fossils dating back 1.4 million years that researchers say will fill in blanks in Southern California's history. This undated photo provided by Southern California Edison shows a Saber tooth Fossil found in the area near Riverside, Calif. (AP Photo/Southern California Edison)associatedcontent – Fossils are remains or traces of ancient organisms.


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  • Really Horny Dinosaur Heralded from Lost Continent (LiveScience.com)

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    LiveScience.com – A bizarre dinosaur
    with 15 horns is one of two new close relatives of Triceratops that
    scientists unearthed in southern Utah from lands once part of a now-lost
    continent.

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  • New dinosaur species discovered in southern Utah (AP)

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    AP – Paleontologists say they have discovered fossils of two new dinosaur species in southern Utah.

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  • 2 new dinosaur species discovered in southern Utah (AP)

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    This image provided by the Utah Museum of Natural History shows an artist's reconstruction of the Kosmoceratops. Scientists said Wednesday, Sept 22, 2010 they've discovered fossils in the southern Utah desert of two new dinosaur species closely related to the Triceratops, including one with 15 horns on its large head. (AP Photo/Lukas Panzarin, Utah Museum of Natural History)  NO SALESAP – Scientists said Wednesday they’ve discovered fossils in the southern Utah desert of two new dinosaur species closely related to the Triceratops, including one with 15 horns on its large head.


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  • Two new horned dinosaurs discovered in western US (AFP)

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    This reconstruction provided by the Utah Museum of Natural History shows the Utahceratops, one of two new species of large horned dinosaurs that have been unearthed in the western desert of the United States. The AFP – Two new species of large horned dinosaurs — close cousins of the famous herbivorous Triceratops — have been unearthed in the western desert of the United States, paleontologists have revealed.


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  • Longest dinosaur thigh bone in Europe found in Spain (AFP)

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    This handout picture released on September 26, by the Dinopolis Foundation, shows the fossiled thigh bone of a dinosaur that is almost two metres (more than six feet) in length, the longest such bone ever discovered in Europe in Teruel.(AFP/DF-HO/File)AFP – Palaeontologists in Spain have found the fossiled thigh bone of a dinosaur that is almost two metres in length, the longest such femur ever discovered in Europe, they said Friday.


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  • `Lucy’ species used stone tools, fossil study says (AP)

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    **EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL 1:00 PM EDT ON AUGUST 11, 2010**In a 2009 photo provided by the Dikika Research Project, project leader Dr. Zeresenay Alemseged excavates a freshly found 3.4 million years old Rhino fossil of a species that lived at the same time and place where the Australopithecus afarensis butchered carcasses using stone tools. (AP Photo/Dikika Research Project)AP – Two ancient animal bones from Ethiopia show signs of butchering by human ancestors, moving back the earliest evidence for the use of stone tools by about 800,000 years, researchers say.


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  • Remains of deadly European dinosaur discovered (AP)

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    AP – Around 70 million years ago a stocky dragon stalked what is now Romania.

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  • Fossil of stocky new predatory dinosaur unearthed in Romania (AFP)

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    This image, obtained from the National Science Foundation (NSF), shows the fossilized hindlimb of a Balaur bondoc showing the double sickle claws of the foot, found on a Late Cretaceous island in what is now Europe.(AFP/NSF/Mick Ellison)AFP – The fossil of a stocky new dinosaur with two sets of claws on its feet unearthed in Romania has given researchers a window into what European predators looked like in the final years of the Age of Dinosaurs.


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  • Mass Extinction Threat: Earth on Verge of Huge Reset Button? (LiveScience.com)

    Dino News 26.09.2010 No Comments

    LiveScience.com – Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramatically
    changed the diversity of species found in oceans all over the world, according
    to a comprehensive study of fossil records. The findings suggest humans will
    live in a very different future if they drive animals to extinction, because
    the loss of each species can alter entire ecosystems.

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