10-05-19 Azendohsaurus(爱珍多龙) just shed its dinosaur affiliation(归属,联盟) . A careful new analysis of A. madagaskarensisthis time based on the entire skull rather than on just teeth and jaws aligns(排列) this 230-million-year-old animal with a di...
10-05-18 The six-foot-long babies of the world's biggest shark species, Carcharocles(噬人鲨) megalodon(巨齿鲨) , frolicked in the warm shallow waters of an ancient shark nursery in what is now Panama, report paleontologists(古生物学者) working at the S...
10-05-11 A 150-million-year old 'Dinobird' fossil, long thought to contain nothing but fossilized bone and rock, has been hiding remnants(残余) of the animal's original chemistry, according to new research. The sensational(轰动的,使人感动的) discovery b...
10-04-03 Paleontologists(古生物学者) can't always get what they want, to paraphrase the Rolling Stones, but sometimes they can get what they need, according to a study that will appear in the May issue of the American Naturalist. The fossil record captures...
10-03-05 Located half a billion light-years from Earth, ESO 306-17, is a large, bright elliptical galaxy(椭圆星系) in the southern sky of a type known as a fossil group. Astronomers use this term to emphasise the isolated nature of these galaxies. However,...
10-02-25 The fossilised remains of a gigantic 10m-long predatory shark have been unearthed in Kansas, US. 美国堪萨斯州发现一具10米长的巨大食肉鲨鱼的骨骼化石。 A nurse shark may be similar in shape but not size to the prehistoric fossil Scientists dug up a gi...
10-02-05 Deciphering解密,破译 microscopic微观的 clues hidden within fossils, scientists have uncovered the vibrant响亮的,充满生气的 colors that adorned a feathered dinosaur extinct for 150 million years, a Yale University-led research team reports online F...
09-10-28 Researchers determined that the specimens are around 195,000 years old. 对化石的深入分析使现代人的历史可以追溯到19.5万年以前。 A new analysis of bones unearthed(采掘出的) nearly 40 years ago in Ethiopia has pushed the fossil record of modern human...
09-09-25 Exceptionally well preserved dinosaur fossils uncovered in north-eastern China display the earliest known feathers. 中国东北地区发掘的保存异常完好的恐龙化石显示了最早的羽毛的样子。 Some of the fossils are exceptionally well preserved The creatures a...
09-09-18 A 3m-long dinosaur fossil from China which predates T. Rex by 60 million years is a blueprint for the mighty carnivore, say researchers. 研究人员称,中国出土的一具3米长的恐龙化石早于T. Rex六千万年的时间,这是强大食肉动物的蓝本。 The skull of R. krie...