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  • 20120329
    The tallest known penguin genus has just been discovered, in two exciting flavors!

    LiveScience Big bird: fossils of world's tallest penguin discovered (press release with life construction and photo)

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  • 20120322
    Two new species of miniature camel have been discovered in Panama. This is the first we've heard of miniature camels south of Mexico.

    University of Florida News - UF scientists name new ancient camels from Panama Canal excavation (press release)

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  • 20120322
     
    Sauropoda: Somphospondyli
    This is the first time a titanosaur has been found in Montana. Unfortunately, it would seem they haven't identified the genus (unless the press left that detail out).

    NBC Montana - MSU grad student discovers first of its kind dino in Montana (press release)

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  • 20120311
     
    Permafrost preserves narrow-leafed campion fruits for 31,800 years
    While the lupine seeds once germinated from a 10,000-year-old lemming burrow were found to be modern, we have been able to successfully germinate 2,000-year-old seeds from palms in Israel. But now there's a new contender for the longest-preserved plant material in the world. Move over, Israeli palm tree seeds, Siberian fruits coming through!

    Russian scientists have uncovered three Pleistocene narrow-leafed campion fruits and thousands of its seeds that are 31,800 years old, preserved in permafrost. They tried to plant the seeds, but they simply wouldn't germinate.

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  • 20120305
    After the ice age the end of the Ordovician, the graptolites that remained didn't evolve quite as quickly as paleontologists expected. Rather, the evolutionary explosion was delayed by about 2 million years. Why?

    UChicagoNews - Explosive evolution need not follow mass extinctions (press release with photos of fossils, David Bapst)

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  • 20120304
     
    Pterosauria: Pteranodontoidea
    Special thanks to tklarenb for digging this one up!

    A snaggle-toothed pterosaur has been covered from China. They're calling it the "hunting ghost dragon", and they're pretty convinced it didn't eat fish due to problems posed by its enormous teeth. Even if you don't read this one, I highly recommend viewing the photo of the fossil!

    Wired - 120-million-year-old ‘ghost dragon’ pterosaur discovered in China (press release with photo and diagram of fossil)

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  • 20120301
    Well, it's finally happened. A couple scientists have officially published something to challenge Scanella and Horner on their debunking of Torosaurus.

    Scores:
    Torosaurus: 2
    Triceratops: 2

    Longrich NR, Field DJ (2012) Torosaurus Is Not Triceratops: Ontogeny in Chasmosaurine Ceratopsids as a Case Study in Dinosaur Taxonomy. PLoS ONE 7(2): e32623. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032623

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  • 20120301
    Tube sheep (Hyopsodus lepidus) - which are weasel-like, not sheep-like - may have been subterranean echolocators. If this is true, they would have been burrowing animals.

    Orliac MJ, Argot C, Gilissen E (2012) Digital Cranial Endocast of Hyopsodus (Mammalia, “Condylarthra”): A Case of Paleogene Terrestrial Echolocation? PLoS ONE 7(2): e30000. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030000

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  • 20120229
     
    Our friends in Canada have noticed two distinct scale types in Saurolophus!
    While comparing skin fossils from multiple specimens of Saurolophus, researchers realized that the scale structures hadn't been included in the species descriptions. Had they been, paleontologists may have been able to identify a new species simply by finding different scales! They're requesting that if anyone discovers a dinosaur species that they include the scales in the species description-- something that's never been done before.

    Canada.com - Canadian researcher hails discovery as new 'way to approach paleontology' (press release with life reconstruction...

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  • 20120229
    40 patches of Neptune grass in the Mediterranean represent the oldest living organisms in the world-- each of these patches asexually reproduced from a specimen over 12,000 years old, most likely over 100,000 years old, and possibly even as old as 200,000 years!

    The Telegraph - 'Oldest living thing on earth' discovered (press release with photo)

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  • 20120216
     
    Crocodylomorpha: Aegyptosuchidae
    A Cretaceous croc named "Shield Croc" with a long snout and the largest known crocodile brain has been discovered in Morocco. It has a shield-like plate on its head and an "eyespot" that was perhaps used during courting displays. Dr. Holliday suggests the Cretaceous may not have been the age of dinosaurs, but rather the age of crocodiles.

    MU News Bureau - New species of ancient crocodile, ancestor of today's species, discovered by MU researcher (press release with video, pictures)

    Holliday C.M., Gardner N.M. (2012). A new...

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  • 20120215
    A new family of prehistoric hermit crabs has been discovered, and the type species of the new fossil genus is named after Michael Jackson.

    PhysOrg - Mesoparapylocheles michaeljacksoni: Fossil hermit crab named after Michael Jackson (press release with photo of fossil, and sketch of the only living species in the new family)

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  • 20120208
     
    Osteichthyes: Aeduelliformes
    A new species of fish is the first fish fossil ever found near BYU.

    Local News 8 - BYU-Idaho professor discovers rare fossil (press release with photo of fossil)

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  • 20120207
     
    Insecta: Trichoptera
    Scientists have found a new type of caddisfly trapped in amber in Myanmar.
    Palerasnitsynus ohlhoffi on the Encyclopedia of Life

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  • 20120120
    Global Press - New dinosaur, Yueosaurus Tiantaiensis, discovered in China (press release)

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  • 20120111
    Canadian researchers have identified another deadly chemical released by the Siberian supervolcanoes: mercury.

    The Province - Volcanic mercury deposits contributed to mass global extinction, Canadian scientists discover (press release with photo of Canadian glacier)

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  • 20120110
    Geologists have been studying ancient Permo-Triassic volcanoes in Siberia, and they've found several gigatons of toxic fumes may have been released by these volcanoes! Talk about toxic!

    Science Daily - Could Siberian volcanism have caused the earth's largest extinction event? (press release with aerial view of today's Siberian volcanoes)

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  • 20111224
    Scientific American - Was Australopithecus sediba polygamous? Paleontologist answers reader questions about new early human fossils (blog interview)

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  • 20111213
     
    Ceratopsidae: Centrosaurinae
    Cnews - New species of Canadian dinosaur discovered (press release with life reconstruction of head)

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  • 20111213
    Globe and Mail - Alberta’s dinosaur feathers have paleontologists all atwitter (press release with photo of fossil, diagram illustrating hypothetical evolution of feathers)

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