Topic: Paleontology

Swiss designer creates dinosaur dung watch

Expensive piece of dung: Swiss designer creates watch made from fossilized dinosaur droppingsA Swiss watchmaker is hoping to raise a stink with an expensive timepiece that eschews the trade's standard gold, diamond or titanium fittings for a more earthy substance — dinosaur dung. Vesenaz, Switzerland-based company Artya says the watch ...
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CORRECTION India Prehistoric Snake

CORRECTION India Prehistoric Snake
In this 2008 photo released by Wilson et al. 2010, PLoS Biology shows blocks preserving the snake Sanajeh indicus in association with a partial clutch of three sauropod eggs and a sauropod hatchling. The fossilized remains of a 67 million-year-old snake found coiled around a dinosaur egg offer rare insight ...
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It's official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs

LONDON (Reuters) - A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs, a global scientific team said on Thursday, hoping to settle a row that has divided experts for decades. A panel of 41 scientists from across the world reviewed 20 years' worth ...
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Fossils of snake eating dino eggs found in India

Scientists find fossil of ancient snake killed while dining on dinosaur eggs in IndiaThe fossilized remains of a 67 million-year-old snake found coiled around a dinosaur egg offer rare insight into the ancient reptile's dining habits and evolution, scientists said Tuesday. The findings, which appeared in Tuesday's issue ...
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