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Descendant of Triceratops discovered

Scientists have discovered a 65,000,000 year old fossilized scull of a terrestrial archosaurian reptile believed to be a direct descendant of Triceratops [T. horridus].

The new discovery made in Western Turkey has been named Quinceratops [T. pentcomus], because of its five horns. Like its three horned ancestor the herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur Quinceratops was also a strict vegetarian, thought to have lived mainly on bushes and plants that were close to the ground and on cycads, a type of plant common in the Cretaceous period.

The evolutionary development of the five horned Quinceratops made this vegetarian into a fearsome looking animal... Read more...

Black hole or big bubble?

Scientists have discovered that a Black Hole may not be solid at all but a sphere with an infinitely thin shell made of infinitely dense matter.

According to Professor Cummins at the California Institute of Cosmology, the thickness of the shell would be a fraction of one atom thick making it not only the densest form of matter but probably the smoothest object in the universe. Read more...

 

Socio-Parasitic Gene Discovered

Scientists have discovered the gene that predisposes some people to human socio-parasitism.

Scientists at the Berkley Institute for Anti-Social Behaviour in California have completed a study involving over 5000 volunteers from the three social classes:
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Eight-armed animal preceded dinosaurs

Scientists have discovered what they believe is an eight-armed creature, which colonized a large section of the world's oceans over 300 million years before the first dinosaurs emerged.

The findings represent the first comparable animal fossils from the Ediacaran Period, 635 to 541 million years ago, which appear in two drastically different preservation environments - black shale of South China and quartz rock of South Australia.

"According to palaeogeographic reconstructions, South China and South Australia were close to each other at the time, belonging to a supercontinent called Gondwana," says lead author Dr Maoyan Zhu.
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Chimp who threw stones at zoo visitors showed human trait, says scientist

The loutish behaviour of a stone-throwing chimpanzee at a zoo near the Arctic circle has challenged scientists' beliefs about human beings.

Santino, a 31-year-old male at Furuvik zoo in Sweden, may be the first animal to exhibit an unambiguous ability to plan for the future, a behaviour many scientists argue is unique to humans. Forward planning takes considerable cognitive skills, because it requires an animal to envisage future events it will have to deal with.

Santino would get agitated when the first groups of visitors arrived at his enclosure in the morning, and would start hurling stones at the spectators. When the zookeepers investigated, they found that, while the zoo was closed, Santino had been busy making piles of ammunition, and returned to them to resupply.
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