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Chinese scientists find mid-Jurassic period plant fossil
March 7, 2016, By Press Trust of India, India
Juraherba bodae
Beijing, March 7: Chinese paleobotanists have found fossils of perhaps world’s earliest herbaceous angiosperm plant from the mid-Jurassic period in north China’s Inner Mongolia. The plant — Juraherba bodae — was found near ... |
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First microwhip scorpion from Mesozoic period found in Burmese amber
March 9, 2016, ScienceDaily
It's smaller than a grain of rice, yellowish, trapped in amber and lived 100 million years ago alongside dinosaurs. Meet Electrokoenenia yaksha, a newly described type of microwhip scorpion, or palpigrade, from Myanmar, whose minute fossilised remains have been fou... |
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Ancient 'Mud Dragon' Worm Had Spiky Coat of Armor
November 26, 2015, by Mindy Weisberger, Live Science.
Like the fictional, fearsome sandworms from the "Dune" sci-fi novels, a recently discovered worm that lived 535 million years ago had an armored body, a mouth ringed with teeth and rows of thornlike spines on its flanks. But while the "Dun... |
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Paleontologists find a ridiculously armored Cambrian worm
NOVEMBER 26, 2015, by MIHAI ANDREI, ZMEscienceIt basically looks like a weapon: the fossil of a worm-like animal from the Cambrian period has been presented by scientists, and it’s as armored as it gets.
Credit: An artist’s reconstruction of Eokinorhynchus rarus, a 535-million-year-old foss... |
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