examining the horses’ vertebrae.... Of the roughly 240 vertebrae the team studied, over 60 percent

joined their expertise to examine and analyse the vertebra and other associated fossils. Their

She fell about 20 feet down damaging two of her vertebrae.... One was crushed and one was

The fossilised bones recently discovered include large pelvic and tail vertebrae. They were dug up

broken his spinal cord at his C3 vertebrae. Doctors worked for two hours to clear his chest as he was

Dinosaur fossils had never been reported there before, scientists said.... Xiaolin Wang The dinosaur fossils before the collection.... Maurilio Oliveira Hamititan, left, and Silutitan walking over a nesting area of the pterosaur Hamipterus....

An illustration reconstructs Perucetus colossus in its coastal habitat.... Print NEW YORK— There could be a new contender for heaviest animal to ever live.... While today’s blue whale has long held the title, scientists have dug up fossils from an ancient giant that could tip the scales. Researchers described the new species — named Perucetus colossus, or “ the colossal whale from Peru ” — in the journal Nature on Wednesday....

NEW YORK--There could be a new contender for heaviest animal to ever live.... “ It’s just exciting to see such a giant animal that’s so different from anything we know," said Hans Thewissen, a paleontologist at Northeast Ohio Medical University who had no role in the research.... The bones were discovered more than a decade ago by Mario Urbina from the University of San Marcos’ Natural History Museum in Lima....

Two schoolchildren played the lead roles in their nativity play three decades ago, but unbeknown to them, it was written in the stars they would get their own time in the spotlight after the curtain call. Rose Childerhouse told the Sun she had a crush on James Macpherson when starring in the biblical play in school at Sixpenny Handley First School in Salisbury. Unfortunately for Ms Childerhouse, he used his role in the play to impress another girl in his class, he told the publication.He told th

Since the days of Charles Darwin, the long necks of giraffes have been a textbook example of evolution.... Discokeryx was adapted to absorb and deliver skull-cracking collisions to woo mates and vanquish rivals.“ It shows that giraffe evolution is not just elongating the neck, ” said Jin Meng, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History and co-author of the new study.... Meng and his colleagues discovered the fossils in an outcrop of rock in northwestern China called the Junggar