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<title><![CDATA[10-pound 'Giant Frog From Hell' discovered in Madagascar]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers have discovered the remains of what may be the largest frog ever to exist.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New duck-billed dinosaur discovered in Mexico]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A previously unknown species of dinosaur has been discovered in Mexico, shadding new light on the history of western North America, report researchers from the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Two strange carnivorous dinosaurs discovered in the Sahara]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Two previously unknown species of dinosaur discovered in the Sahara were unusual meat-eaters, report scientists from the University of Chicago and the University of Bristol.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mini-pterodactyl discovered in China]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of pterodactyl in northeastern China.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global warming to increase insect attacks on plants]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Global warming will increase attacks on plant leaves by insects, reports a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[2,000 pound rodent discovered]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists have discovered the remains of an extinct 2,000 pound rodent -- the largest rodent ever known.  The find is described Wednesday in Britain's Proceedings of the Royal Society.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Despite Arctic crocodiles, glaciers existed during extreme global warming 90M years ago]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Massive glaciers extended across 50-60 percent of Antarctica some 91.2 million years even as crocodiles roamed the Arctic and surface temperatures of the western tropical Atlantic Ocean climbed to 37 degrees Celsius (98 degrees Fahrenheit), reports a study published in the journal Science.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Evolution of whales challenged]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Modern whales appear to have evolved from a raccoon-sized creature with the body of a small deer, according to scientists writing in the journal Nature. The results challenge the theory that cetaceans are descended from even-toed ungulates (artiodactyls) like hippos, as previous molecular analysis has suggested.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Prehistoric Carnivorous Fungi Lassoed its Prey]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists have discovered the oldest known carnivorous fungus, according to a study published in Science.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Massive carnivorous dinosaur discovered]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A massive carnivorous dinosaur discovered in Niger has been described as a new species, according to research published in current issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cow-like dinosaur discovered]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A dinosaur discovered in the Sahara had a mouth that worked like a vacuum cleaner and operated more like a "Mesozoic cow" than a reptile, report researchers writing in today's issue of the journal PLoS ONE.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1115-dinosaur.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Missing link between humans and apes possibly discovered]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A 10 million-year-old jawbone discovered in Kenya may represent a new species very close to the last common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans, report researchers writing in the current issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chocolate first used more than 3100 years ago]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Cacao, the source of chocolate, was in use at least at least 3000 years ago according to evidence found by archaeologists working in Honduras.  The discovery pushes back the  earliest known use of cacao by 500 years.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate change did not cause extinction of Neanderthals]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers in Europe have found evidence that rules out a "single climatic event" as factor in the extinction of Neanderthals.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dinosaurs' rise to dominance was a gradual]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Dinosaurs' rise to dominance was a gradual rather than sudden, suggests new research published in Science.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pygmy panda discovered in China]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers have discovered an extinct pygmy panda in the tropical forests of China.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ancient gliding reptile discovered]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A remarkable new long-necked, gliding reptile discovered in 220 million-year old sediments of eastern north America is described in the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Vol. 27, No. 2), scientists report. Mecistotrachelos apeoros (meaning "soaring, long-necked") is based on two fossils excavated at the Solite Quarry that straddles the Virginia-North Carolina state line.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tyrannosaurus rex was slow]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tyrannosaurus rex was a slow, lumbering beast according to new research published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dinosaurs could swim]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers found evidence that terrestrial dinosaurs were capable of swimming. Examining fossilized footmarks left on the floor of an ancient lake bed in northern Spain 125 million years ago, scientists led by Loic Costeur of the Universite de Nantes in France said the tracks were left by a swimming meat-eating dinosaur.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0524-dinosaurs.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Possible baby dinosaur tracks discovered near Denver]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A researcher may have discovered incredibly rare dinosaur tracks of baby stegosaurs near downtown Denver, reports the Denver Post.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Prehistoric bear-like beast discovered in North Dakota]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The skeleton of a 60-million year old bear-like beat was discovered at an oil drilling site in the North Dakota Badlands, reports the Associated Press.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Largest dinosaur bones in Australia discovered]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The largest bones of any dinosaur known in Australia went on display at the Queensland Museum for the first time today.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Researchers find Earth's first rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A spectacular fossilised forest has transformed our understanding of the ecology of the Earth's first rainforests. It is 300 million years old]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0423-rainforest.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[World's first rainforest found in Illinois]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Earth's first rainforest has been found in an Illinois coalmine, according to research published in <i>Geology</i>.
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[First amphibians were biters not suckers]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Prehistoric aquatic amphibians developed the ability to feed on land well before they became terrestrial reports a new study in the early online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0416-amphibians.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Maize cultivated at least 7,300 years ago in Mexico]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Anthropologists have found the earliest known evidence of maize cultivation in Mexico.  The discovery, published in the April 9-13 edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, pushes back farming of the ancestor of modern corn to about 7,300 years ago.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0409-maize.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dinosaur extinction didn't produce current mammal evolution]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A new Nature study argues that the demise of dinosaurs did not fuel the rise of mammals. Devising a new tree of life for 4,500 species of mammals using molecular evolutionary trees, an international team of researchers challenges the prevailing hypothesis that a mass extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago played a major role in the diversification of mammals.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0328-mammals.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indigenous populations deforested New World rainforests before European contact]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Indigenous populations used fire to clear large areas of tropical forest well before the arrival of Europeans reports a new study published in Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden.  The research has important implications for understanding the impact of present forest development on biodiversity and forest regeneration in the tropics.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Europeans may have caused extinction of large mammals in Caribbean]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[New evidence suggests that the arrival of Europeans in the New World corresponds with the extinction of mammal species on the Caribbean islands.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0125-pr.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Giant carnivorous marsupial beasts not killed by climate change in Australia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Humans, not climate change, caused the extinction of megafauna in Australia contends a team of Australian researchers writing in the January issue of the journal Science. Australia lost 90 percent of its largest animals, including a saber-toothed kangaroo, a marsupial lion and giant goannas, within 20,000 years of man's arrival some 50,000 years ago.  Scientists have long debated whether the demise of Australian megafauna was due to human arrival, climate change, or a combination of the two factors.  The new research found that the climate in southeastern Australia was little different 500,000 years ago, suggesting that climate change was not the ultimate cause of extinction.
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Carnivorous 'terror bird' stalked America before isthmus formation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A prehistoric 7-foot-tall flightless 'terror bird,' arrived in North America from South America well before the formation of the  Panamanian land bridge according to a study led by University of Florida (UF) researchers.  The results will be published January 23 in the online version of the journal <i>Geology</i>.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Early dinosaur flew like a biplane]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Reanalysis of fossil remains suggests that the earliest flying dinosaurs used two sets of wings like a biplane. The research, published by Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University and R. Jack Templin in this week&aposs online issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, argues that Microraptor gui, one of the earliest known gliders dating to 125 million years ago, utilized four wings to glide between treetops.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Leaf-mimicking insects at least 47 million years old]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[With the discovery of a 47 million year old fossil of a lead insect, new research suggests that cryptic leaf-mimicking camoflauge is a time-tested strategy used by insects to avoid predators.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1225-insects.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Giant dinosaur discovered in Spain - largest ever recorded in Europe]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers working in Teruel, Spain have discovered the fossil remains of a giant dinosaur that weighed between 40 to 48 tons and was 30-37 meters (100-120 feet) long -- the length of an NBA basketball court.  It is the largest dinosaur ever found in Europe -- most giant dinosaurs have been found previously in the New World and Africa.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1221-dino.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How did giant dinosaurs digest their food without molars?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The giant dinosaurs had a problem. Many of them had narrow, pointed teeth, which were more suited to tearing off plants rather than chewing them. But how did they then grind their food? Until recently many researchers have assumed that they were helped by stones which they swallowed. In their muscular stomach these then acted as a kind of 'gastric mill'. But this assumption does not seem to be correct, as scientists at the universities of Bonn and Tubingen have now proved. Their research findings can be found in the current issue of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1220-borneo.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mammals may have flown before birds]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Mammals may have flown before birds according to a fossil discovery by scientists working in China. Working in the Inner Mongolian region of China, a team of Chinese and American scientists discovered a 125 million year fossil that provides evidence that mammals were capable of gliding flight some 70 million years earlier than previously believed.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1213-fossil.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Loch Ness Monster' found in Antarctica]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Paleontologists found a well-preserved fossil skeleton of a juvenile plesiosaur in Antarctica.  Cryptozoologists say the plesiosaur resembles the legendary Loch Ness Monster, despite scientific evidence indicating that the marine reptile has been extinct for millions of years.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1211-nsf.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ancient hominid not our ancestor finds new study]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists have shown that ancient remains once thought to be a key link in man's evolutionary history are 400,000 years to young to be part of human evolution.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1207-leeds.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Neanderthal life was miserable suggests new evidence]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[New analysis of 43,000-year-old samples of Neanderthal remains from Spain's Iberian Peninsula suggest our relatives eked out a meager existence, possibly supplemented by cannibalism.  The results are published in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) for the week of December 4-8, 2006.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ancient fish had bite like Tyrannosaurus rex]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[400-million years ago a 33-foot long, 4-ton fish terrorized the oceans with jaws that rivaled those of Tyrannosaurus rex, according to research published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters on November 29.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1128-field.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ancient sea monster found in Montana]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A fossil-hunting trip to celebrate a son's homecoming resulted in the recent discovery of an ancient sea monster in central Montana.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1103-msu.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Researchers find the missing link for elephant evolution]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A pig-sized, tusked creature that roamed the earth some 27 million years ago represents a missing link between the oldest known relatives of elephants and the more recent group from which modern elephants descended.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1101-elephant.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ancient climate record preserved in prehistoric plants]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[About 350 million years ago, at the boundary of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, the climate changed. There was no one around to record it, but there are records nonetheless in the rocks deposited by glaciers and in tissues preserved in fossils of ancient life.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1101-vtech.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Birds evolved from gliding four-legged dinosaurs]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Birds may have evolved from gliding four-legged dinosaurs accofding to new research by a University of Calgary paleontologist.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0922-dino.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Recovery of biodiversity after dinosaurs was chaotic]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The recovery of biodiversity after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction was much more chaotic than previously thought, according to paleontologists. New fossil evidence shows that at certain times and places, plant and insect diversity were severely out of balance, not linked as they are today. The extinction took place 65.5 million years ago. Labeled the K-T extinction, it marks the beginning of the Cenozoic Era and the Paleocene Epoch.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0824-penn.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ancient blue whale was a shark killer]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A 25-million-year-old whale fossil from southeastern Australia suggests a curious origin for baleen whales. Presented at the at the Melbourne Museum last week, the fossil shows that earliest baleen whales were small, toothed and highly predatory creatures with enormous eyes -- virtually the opposite of the baleen whales we know today.  These, like the blue whale and the humpback are gentle, toothless giants that feed on krill and other tiny organism.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0821-whale.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ancient bison teeth provide window on past Great Plains climate]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A University of Washington researcher has devised a way to use the fossil teeth of ancient bison as a tool to reconstruct historic climate and vegetation changes in America's breadbasket, the Great Plains.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0807-uw.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Picture of ancient missing link between fish and land animals]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a species that provides the missing evolutionary link between fish and the first animals that walked out of water onto land about 375 million years ago. The newly found species, Tiktaalik roseae, has a skull, a neck, ribs and parts of the limbs that are similar to four-legged animals known as tetrapods, as well as fish-like features such as a primitive jaw, fins and scales. These fossils, found on Ellesmere Island in Arctic Canada, are the most compelling examples yet of an animal that was at the cusp of the fish-tetrapod transition. The new find is described in two related research articles highlighted on the cover of the April 6, 2006, issue of Nature.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0405-chicago.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pictures of newly discovered T-Rex dinosaur]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A team of scientists led by James M. Clark, Ronald B. Weintraub Associate Professor of Biology at The George Washington University, and Xu Xing of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, have discovered a new genus and species of dinosaur that is the oldest known and most primitive tyrannosauroid.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0208-t_rex.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chimps split from humans 5-7 million years ago says new study]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Chimpanzees diverged from humans only 5-7 million years ago according to a newly released study of gene sequences. The research significantly narrows the time frame for the evolutionary split.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1222-penn.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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