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How Dinosaur Research Can Help Medicine

August 26, 2020
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Bonn, Germany — The intervertebral discs connect the vertebrae and give the spine its mobility. The disc consists of a cartilaginous fibrous ring and a gelatinous core as a buffer. It has always been...

Migration Patterns Reveal an Eden for Ancient Humans and Animals

May 24, 2020
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Denver, CO — Pinnacle Point, a series of archaeological sites that overlook a now-submerged section of South Africa’s coastline and one of the world’s most important localities for the...

Reconstructing the Diet of Fossil Vertebrates

February 21, 2020
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Leipzig, Germany — Information on what our ancestors ate is based mainly on carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of the structural protein collagen in bones and dentin. Nitrogen isotope analysis, in...

New Species of Allosaurus Discovered in Utah

January 26, 2020
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Salt Lake City, UT — A remarkable new species of meat-eating dinosaur has been unveiled at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Paleontologists unearthed the first specimen in early 1990s in Dinosaur...

Scientists Find Oldest-Known Fossilized Digestive Tract — 550 Million Years

January 12, 2020
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Columbia, MO — A 550 million-year-old fossilized digestive tract found in the Nevada desert could be a key find in understanding the early history of animals on Earth. Over a half-billion years...

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