Scientists get rare look at dinosaur soft tissue

45-foot ancient snake devoured crocodiles
Posted 2-8-2010 | 7 comments
Scientists have found fossil evidence of a giant prehistoric snake that was so large it could devour crocodiles....

Dinosaur colour discovered for the first time
Posted 1-28-2010 | 23 comments
In a world first scientists have managed to determine the colour of a dinosaur, the sinosauropteryx has turned out to be ginger....

Neanderthals died out 37,000 years ago
Posted 1-28-2010 | 4 comments
New research conducted by Professor Joao Zilhao and colleagues places the extinction of the neanderthals at 37,000 years ago....

Feathered dinosaurs leapt from trees
Posted 1-26-2010 | 3 comments
New evidence suggests that early feathered dinosaurs would have taken to flight from trees rather than from the ground....

Stone age medicine more advanced than thought
Posted 1-26-2010 | 3 comments
A 7000-year-old skeleton of a man who had undergone an amputation has shed new light on stone age medicine....

Humans were once an endangered species
Posted 1-23-2010 | 24 comments
Scientists have determined that approximately 1.2 million years ago humans were on the verge of extinction....

Giant footprints caused dinosaur "death pits"
Posted 1-22-2010 | 1 comment
Could the footprints of giant sauropod dinosaurs have created quicksand "death pits" that doomed many smaller species ?...

Neanderthal "make-up" discovered
Posted 1-10-2010 | 12 comments
The first convincing evidence for neanderthal "body paint" has been discovered dating back some 50,000 years....

Lost giants of Australia rediscovered
Posted 1-4-2010 | 6 comments
Palaeontologists are working round the clock to uncover lost secrets of Australia's largest ever carnivores in a network of caves....

First known venomous dinosaur found
Posted 1-3-2010 | 16 comments
The first ever known venomous dinosaur has been discovered, a fearsome feathered predator that lived 125 million years ago....

280-million-year-old reptile's last meal
Posted 12-29-2009 | 3 comments
Scientists have discovered the remains of insect parts stuck between the teeth of prehistoric reptiles, the find suggests that pre...

World's oldest known DNA discovered
Posted 12-18-2009 | 0 comments
The oldest intact DNA ever found has been discovered inside salt deposits and belongs to a type of salt-loving bacteria that exist...

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