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Associated Press - Archaeologists discover saber-tooth vegetarian (press release with photo)

News 24 - New fossil links Brazil and SA (press release)

PLoS ONE - New information on the cranial anatomy of Acrocanthosaurus atokensis and its implications for the phylogeny of Allosauroidea (Dinosauria: Theropoda) (full text with photos, cladograms, drawings, etc)

The Star - New dinosaur species discovered in Angola (press release with photo)

3 News - New dinosaur discovered in Angola (press release with life reconstruction)

National Geographic - New species found - Thai fossils reveal ancient primate (press release with life reconstruction)

Daily Mail - Some dinosaurs "were noctural and did most of their hunting at night" (press release with screen capture from Jurassic Park of outdated Velociraptors, photo of Velociraptor skull, life reconstruction of pterodactyl)

Science News - New dinosaur is titanic (press release with photo of skull reconstruction, museum mount, and sketch of fossil)

The Observer - A fossil octopus found in Lebanon has dramatically changed zoologists' thinking on these creatures' historic origin (press release with photo of fossil)

Science Daily - Fossil bird study describes ripple effect of extinction in animal kingdom (press release)

Sallam, H.M., E.R. Seiffert, E.L. Simmons. (2011) Craniodental morphology and systematics of a new family of hystricognathous rodents (Gaudeamuridae) from the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene of Egypt. PLoS ONE. 6(2):e16525. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016525

PhysOrg.com - Oldest species of a marine mollusc discovered (press release with photo)

MarketWire - New "thunder-thighs" dinosaur discovered (press release with contact information to request hi-res photos)

Epoch Times - "Thunder thighs" dinosaur had a huge kick (video narrated by Paleontologist Michael Taylor, 3:12 minutes)

MSNBC - Dinosaur's been on ice for 200 million years (press release)

Bello, S.M., Parfitt, S.A., & Stringer, C.B. (2011). Earliest directly-dated human skull-cups. PLoS ONE 6[2]: e17026. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017026

National Geographic - "Lucy" was no swinger, walked like us, fossil suggests (press release, photos)

Caltech - Caltech geobiologists uncover links between ancient climate change and mass extinction (press release)

Huffington Post - Coal fires may have contributed to Permian mass extinction, new study finds (press release)

People's Daily - Dinosaur's single digit draws world attention (press release)

PressTV - Scientists find 'new dinosaur species' (press release)

Straits Times - Fossil of Cretaceous-era squid found in Peru (press release)

Discovery - "Screaming roadrunner" ran circles around dinos (press release, life reconstruction)

The brain size of Homo floriensis has led researchers to reject the popular hypothesis of a delivery-induced birth defect in its facial symmetry.

PhysOrg - Researchers offer alternate theory for found skull's asymmetry (press release)