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The Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum and Queensland Museum have announced some new dinosaur finds — and these are big ones: New Dinosaurs! WINTON: Premier Anna Bligh today announced the discovery of three new species of Australian dinosaur discovered in a prehistoric billabong in Western Queensland. ... “The ...
Here’s some important science news from last week that slipped through LGF’s cracks: the discovery of a four-fingered theropod that fills in another step in the evolution of dinosaurs into birds. Image credit: James Clark A newly discovered dinosaur provides a fossil snapshot of the reptiles’ evolution into birds, ...
[Video] (Warning: slightly racy dinosaur humor.)
Another transitional fossil—an intermediate species that shares characteristics with two distinct groups of animals—has been discovered in Argentina: an omnivorous dinosaur. BUENOS AIRES (AFP) — Scientists have found fossil remains of an omnivorous dinosaur in Argentina — a missing link to the carnivores, a researcher said Monday. “It is ...
Evolution, Science, transitional fossil, Dinosaurs, Argentina
Here’s another interesting excerpt from the three-part series Morphed, airing tonight on the National Geographic Channel. [Video]
Evolution, Science, National Geographic, Natural Selection, Dinosaurs, Bears, Turkeys
I sure am glad there are none of these things running around the neighborhood at 30 mph any more. (An excerpt from the National Geographic Channel’s three-part series Morphed, airing tomorrow.) [Video]
Evolution, Science, National Geographic, Natural Selection, Dinosaurs, Bears, Turkeys
Coming up this weekend on the National Geographic Channel, Morphed, a show about the documented evolutionary changes that gradually transformed land-dwelling mammals into whales, dinosaurs into turkeys, and bears into ... better bears. The website for the show has some very cool graphics and videos. Set your TiVos and EyeTVs. ...
Evolution, Science, National Geographic, Natural Selection, Dinosaurs, Bears, Turkeys
Following up on that ridiculous “fossil” recently announced by a creationist group, that purports to show a human footprint partially overlapped by a dinosaur’s, Glen Kuban has a great piece that goes into detail on the ludicrous claims of Alvis Delk and the Creation Evidence Museum: The Delk Print. (“Alvis ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Dinosaurs, Creation Evidence Musem
Remember the Alvis Delk Cretaceous Footprint we covered recently? That “fossil” discovered by an “amateur archaeologist” in Texas, showing a dinosaur footprint overlapping a human one, thereby proving that the Earth is only 6,000 years old? I hope you’re sitting down. Because that “fossil” is an obvious fake: Stones and ...
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Dinosaurs
Here’s a thread to discuss the earth-shattering discovery made by amateur archeologist Alvis Delk: Rock-solid proof? Before we conclude that Darwin really was stupid after all, though, see: Paluxy Dinosaur/’Man Track’ controversy.
LGF, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science, Religion, Creationism, Dinosaurs
New fossil discoveries by paleontologist Per Ahlberg are filling in more of the gaps in our knowledge of the transition from sea creatures to land-dwelling vertebrates: Fossil Helps Document Shift From Sea To Land. New fossils of an ancient, four-limbed creature help fill in the blanks of the evolutionary ...
An extraordinary fossil discovery in Australia reveals a fish with live offspring attached by an umbilical cord—dating to 380 million years ago, making it the oldest example of vertebrate live birth on record. Scientists at the Museum of Victoria have dubbed her Materpiscis attenboroughi, or “mother fish.” Here’s the Museum ...
The Bureau of Land Management in Utah has announced the discovery of a major new cache of very well-preserved dinosaur bones dating back to 4,400 years ago. Oops! Did I say “4,400?” That was just a guess. The real age is closer to 150 million years old. SALT LAKE ...