LiveScience.com – A voyage to the outer edges of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has
brought back pieces of an ancient, fossilized ancestor to the vast,
living ecosystem.

LiveScience.com – A hunchback dinosaur of sorts once roamed what is now central
Spain. The meat-eating beast sported a humplike structure low on its back, a
feature never previously described in dinosaurs, and one that has scientists
scratching their heads.

AFP – Palaeontologists in Spain have discovered the remains of a strange dinosaur with a hump that they believe is the forerunner of flesh-eating leviathans which once ruled the planet.

AP – The weird world of dinosaurs has just gotten a tad more bizarre. Scientists found a nearly complete fossil of a new dinosaur that sports a noticeable hump, maybe as possible advertising.

LiveScience.com – This isn’t your daddy’s Tyrannosaurus
Rex. The king of the dinosaurs evolved from ancestors that spent most of
their evolutionary history skulking in the shadows of other giant predators,
and may have even sported hair-like feathers.

AP – A utility company preparing to build a new substation in an arid canyon southeast of Los Angeles 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.

The Upshot – There’s bones in them thar hills! As the Los Angeles Times reports, a Southern California Edison construction crew building a new Riverside County substation recently made a rather remarkable discovery: the 1.4-million-year-old remains of a horse that some sort of giant saber-toothed cat attacked while it was getting a drink of water. The unearthing of [...]

Fires and floods which raged across the Isle of Wight some 130 million years ago made the island the richest source of pick ’n’ mix dinosaur remains of this age anywhere in the world. A new study has revealed the Island’s once violent weather explains why thousands of tiny dinosaur teeth and bones lie buried alongside the huge bones of their gigantic relatives.

Paleontologists have discovered that a close relative of Velociraptor hunted the dwarfed inhabitants of Late Cretaceous Europe, an island landscape largely isolated from nearby continents. While island animals tend to be smaller and more primitive than their continental cousins, the theropod Balaur bondoc was as large as its relatives on other parts of the globe and demonstrated advanced adaptations including fused bones and two terrifyingly large claws on each hind foot.

Palaeontologists are forever claiming that their latest fossil discovery will “rewrite evolutionary history.” Is this just boasting or does our “knowledge” of evolution radically change every time we find a new fossil?