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Released: 19-Oct-2008 11:00 PM EDT
'A Dinosaur Dance Floor'
University of Utah

University of Utah geologists identified an amazing concentration of dinosaur footprints and rare tail-drag marks that they call "a dinosaur dance floor," located in a wilderness on the Arizona-Utah border where there was a sandy desert oasis 190 million years ago.

29-Sep-2008 11:05 AM EDT
New Argentine Dinosaur Had Bird-like Breathing System
University of Chicago

The remains of a new 10-meter-long predatory dinosaur discovered along the banks of Argentina's Rio Colorado is helping to unravel how birds evolved their unusual breathing system.

26-Sep-2008 10:40 AM EDT
Meat-Eating Dinosaur from Argentina Had Bird-Like Breathing System
University of Michigan

The remains of a 30-foot-long predatory dinosaur discovered along the banks of Argentina's Rio Colorado is helping to unravel how birds evolved their unusual breathing system.

8-Sep-2008 4:45 PM EDT
My, What Big Teeth You Had! "“ Extinct Species Had Large Teeth on Roof of Mouth
University of Washington

Paleontologists have found a previously unknown amphibious predator that probably made the Antarctica of 240 million years ago something less than a hospitable place.

24-Jul-2008 1:50 PM EDT
New Research Challenges Notion That Dinosaur Soft Tissues Still Survive
University of Washington

Paleontologists in 2005 hailed research apparently showing that soft tissues had been recovered from dissolved dinosaur bones, but new research suggests the supposed recovered tissue is really just biofilm "“ or slime.

Released: 23-May-2008 11:00 AM EDT
Scientists Announce Top 10 New Species; Issue SOS
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and an international committee of taxonomists "“ scientists responsible for species exploration and classification "“ today announce the top 10 new species described in 2007 and an SOS "“ State of Observed Species report card on human knowledge of Earth's species.



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