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1,539 results for: Vertebrates

  1. Paleontology

    Soft tissue from a dino fossil

    Researchers have uncovered soft tissue and fragments of several proteins from a hadrosaur.

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  2. Paleontology

    Dino feathers may have had earlier origin than thought

    Researchers report that newly described dinosaur fossils suggest an ancient origin of feathers.

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  3. Paleontology

    Flexible molars made chewing champions out of duck-billed dinosaurs

    Tiny scratches in the fossilized teeth of Edmontosaurus suggest what these large herbivores ate and how they ate it.

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  4. Animals

    Ants in the pants drive away birds

    Yellow crazy ants can get so annoying that birds don’t eat their normal fruits, a new study finds.

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  5. Plants

    Losing life’s variety

    2010 is the deadline set for reversing declines in biodiversity,  but little has been accomplished.

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  6. Animals

    SOS: Call the ants

    Emergency ant workers bite at snares, dig and tug to free trapped sisters

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  7. Life

    New stegosaur is quite a stretch

    A newly discovered stegosaur has neck proportions like those of sauropods.

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  8. Life

    A more fearsome saber-toothed cat

    Analyses of fossils reveal that a third, newly recognized type of saber-toothed cat — one that killed by biting large chunks of flesh from its victim instead of biting its neck and slashing the major blood vessels there —roamed the Americas about a million years ago.

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  9. Earth

    North America’s smallest dino predator

    A new fossil analysis uncovers what may have been North America’s tiniest dino predator.

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  10. Life

    Lizards sunbathe for another reason

    Panther chameleons may regulate their vitamin D levels by lounging in the sun.

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  11. Life

    Hummingbird pulls Top Gun stunts

    Male hummingbirds set record for extreme plunges out of the sky.

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  12. Let there be light

    New technology illuminates neuronal conversations in the brain

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