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Extinct lizard named Obama
The scientific community found a special way to honor US President Barack Obama when they used his name to call a vanished lizard.
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The story of our ancestors' love with extinct people
The last mating between Neanderthals was extinct with modern people taking place from 47,000 to 65,000 years ago.
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Humanity comes from the mountain forests?
The nearest ancestor of a human lineage may have lived through the day by eating leaves, berries and bark of mountain forests instead of a grass-based menu as other exti…
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Discovered the graveyard of the extinct koalas
Australian scientists have just announced the discovery of the largest ever graveyard of extinct koalas in Queensland state (Australia), Australian cosmosmagazine.com on…
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Extinct dinosaurs are not just meteorites
A new study shows that some dinosaurs died out in the last 12 million years of the Cretaceous (about 150 million years ago), long before meteorites attacked the earth. U…
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Portrait of the penguin was extinct 25 million years
News from BBC magazine (UK) on February 28 said US scientists have reconstructed portraits from fossils of the discovered Kairuku penguin in New Zealand.
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Discovered the extinct camel with a crocodile-like snout
Scientists at the University of Florida (USA) have said that they have discovered fossils of two extinct camel species in the Panama Canal region.
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Restoration of 'love song' from Jurassic
The love song of an extinct grasshopper species from 165 million years ago has been successfully restored by scientists.
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Discover the oldest tiger species on Earth
Scientists have discovered traces of very high-level lakes in China. However, this tiger is extinct on Earth.
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Dinosaurs have colorful tail like peacock birds
Using a showy tail is the way a dinosaur applies to attracting mates, scientists said.
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Mammals extinct due to the effects of climate change and humans
Scientists working at the University of Sydney, Australia, said that both climate change and people are responsible for the extinction of large mammal populations, prese…
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Primitive birds share the same fate with dinosaurs
A new study has put an end to how long the debate about extinct ancient birds has been, research has shown that they have been virtually wiped out by the effects of mete…
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Better thanks to the predestined salary with the ancient people
The interaction between Neanderthals and one species in the extinct genus Denisovan helps strengthen the immune system and leave evidence in the DNA of modern humans.
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Discover the nest of 2 extinct shark species
Researchers discovered dozens of small shark teeth next to the egg nest, indicating that the shark had existed 230 million years ago. This finding was published in the J…
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It is hard to have sex between Neanderthals and modern people
Scientists have shown that modern human genes have some traces of Neanderthals, but a recent study (September 12, 2011) shows that sex between the two strains is a rare…