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Prehistoric snake gobbled-up dinosaur babies

Jeremy Hance 2 Mar 2010

Polar bears are newcomers on the world stage

Jeremy Hance 1 Mar 2010

New study: overhunting by humans killed off Australia’s megafauna

Jeremy Hance 21 Jan 2010

Natural rafts carried Madagascar’s unique wildlife to its shores

Jeremy Hance 20 Jan 2010

After years of controversy: Flores ‘hobbits’ are a new species of humans

Jeremy Hance 19 Nov 2009

Extinct goat was “similar to crocodiles”

Jeremy Hance 16 Nov 2009

Arctic lake undergoing unprecedented changes due to warming

Jeremy Hance 19 Oct 2009

Present day tropical plant families survived in warmer, wetter tropics 58 million years ago

Jeremy Hance 18 Oct 2009

Historical deforestation in Madagascar may not be as bad as commonly believed

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Aug 2009

Extinction debt can last millions of years

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jul 2009

Age of the Amazon River estimated at 11 million years

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2009

Permian mass extinction caused by giant volcanic eruption

Jeremy Hance 28 May 2009

48 ‘new’ species of dinosaur discovered

University Of Portsmouth 9 Feb 2009

Monstrous prehistoric snake provides glimpse of warmer tropical forests

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2009

World’s largest snake discovered: prehistoric serpent was twice the size of an anaconda

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2009

Did cheetah come from China?

Mongabay.com 30 Dec 2008

Missing link between fish and land animals discovered

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Nov 2008

Past climate change drove mass extinction in Pakistan

Jeremy Hance 26 Sep 2008

Researchers devise new comparison of mass extinction events

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2008

Humans – not climate – drove extinction of giant Tasmanian animals

Mongabay.com 11 Aug 2008

Humans, and global warming, responsible for extinction of mammoths

Mongabay.com 31 Mar 2008

10-pound ‘Giant Frog From Hell’ discovered in Madagascar

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Feb 2008

New duck-billed dinosaur discovered in Mexico

Mongabay.com 12 Feb 2008

Two strange carnivorous dinosaurs discovered in the Sahara

Mongabay.com 12 Feb 2008

Mini-pterodactyl discovered in China

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2008

Global warming to increase insect attacks on plants

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2008

Recovery from worst mass extinction took 30M years

Mongabay.com 20 Jan 2008

2,000 pound rodent discovered

Mongabay.com 16 Jan 2008

Despite Arctic crocodiles, glaciers existed during extreme global warming 90M years ago

Mongabay.com 10 Jan 2008

Evolution of whales challenged

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2007

Prehistoric Carnivorous Fungi Lassoed its Prey

Mongabay.com 13 Dec 2007

Massive carnivorous dinosaur discovered

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2007

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