This new species is one of a group of four-legged armored herbivorous dinosaurs called ankylosaurs.The near-complete skeleton of the 100 million-year-old (Cretaceous period) beast, including most of the skull and mandible, along with postcranial material, was discovered in 1989 in the Allaru Mudstone on Marathon Station near Richmond, north-western Queensland, by Mr Ian Ievers. But […]
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Phosphorosaurus ponpetelegans a fossil from Japan
December 10th, 2015 
Riffin An international research partnership is revealing the first mosasaur fossil of its kind to be discovered in Japan. Not only does the 72-million-year-old marine reptile fossil fill a biogeographical gap between the Middle East and the eastern Pacific, but also it holds new revelations because of its superior preservation. This unique swimming lizard, now believed […]
Extinction Rates Not as Bad as Feared … for Now: Scientists Challenge Common Belief
January 28th, 2013 Riffin Concerns that many animals are becoming extinct, before scientists even have time to identify them, are greatly overstated, according Griffith University researcher, Professor Nigel Stork. Professor Stork has taken part in an international study, the findings of which have been detailed in “Can we name Earth’s species before they go extinct?” published in the journal […]
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No Comments »Australia’s Stampeding Dinosaurs Take a Dip: Largely Tracks of Swimming Rather Than Running Animals
January 18th, 2013 Riffin Queensland paleontologists have discovered that the world’s only recorded dinosaur stampede is largely made up of the tracks of swimming rather than running animals. The University of Queensland’s (UQ) PhD candidate Anthony Romilio led the study of thousands of small dinosaur tracks at Lark Quarry Conservation Park, central-western Queensland. Mr Romilio says the 95-98 million-year-old […]
More Intense North Atlantic Tropical Storms Likely in the Future
December 3rd, 2012 riffin Tropical storms that make their way into the North Atlantic, and possibly strike the East Coast of the United States, likely will become more intense during the rest of this century. That’s the prediction of one University of Iowa researcher and his colleague as published in an early online release in the Journal of Climate, the […]
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