http://www.ccnmag.com Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:48:37 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/plant-eating_dinosaur_in_antarctica_discovered For the first time, the presence of large bodied herbivorous dinosaurs in Antarctica has been recorded CalTechNews Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:07:06 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/north_america_s_biggest_dinosaur New research from Montana State University's Museum of the Rockies and the State Museum of Pennsylvania has unveiled enormous bones from North America's biggest dinosaur CalTechNews Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:35:17 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/world_s_first_super_predator_amazing_vision South Australian Museum and University of Adelaide scientists working on fossils from Kangaroo Island have found eyes belonging to a giant 500 million-year-old marine predator that sat at the top of Earth's first food chain CalTechNews Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:18:01 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/volcanoes,_meteorite_impacts_doomed_dinosaurs A cosmic one-two punch of colossal volcanic eruptions and meteorite strikes likely caused the mass-extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period that is famous for killing the dinosaurs 65 million years ago CalTechNews Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:24:00 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/multi-legged_predator_ruled_the_seas Researchers from the University of Saskatchewan and Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have followed fossilized footprints to a multi-legged predator that ruled the seas of the Cambrian period about half a billion years ago CalTechNews Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:46:00 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/scientists_race_against_time_to_save_the_last_flying_pencil_,_wwii_bomber Scientists are in a race against time to help save the last remaining intact World War II German light bomber Dornier Do-17, known as The Flying Pencil (Fliegender Bleistift), which lies underwater in the English Channel off the Kentish coast in the UK CalTechNews Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:08:34 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/jawbone_found_in_england_is_from_the_earliest_known_modern_human_in_northwestern_europe The bone first was believed to be about 35,000 years old, but the new research study shows it to be significantly older -- between 41,000 and 44,000 years old CalTechNews Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:02:30 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/saber-toothed_squirrel_fossils_discovered The fossils break a roughly 60 million-year gap in the currently known mammalian record of the continent and provide new clues on the early evolution of mammals CalTechNews Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:13:12 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/t_rex_was_bigger_and_grew_faster_than_thought A new study reveals that T. rex grew more quickly and reached significantly greater masses than previously estimated. In a departure from earlier methods, the new study uses mounted skeletons to generate body mass estimates CalTechNews Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:15:02 +0100 http://www.ccnmag.com/article/humans_came_from_ancestor_with_sixth_sense_ People experience the world through five senses but sharks, paddlefishes and certain other aquatic vertebrates have a sixth sense: They can detect weak electrical fields in the water and use this information to detect prey, communicate and orient themselv CalTechNews Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:31:00 +0100