Ian Randall | 18 March 2010
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Sea urchins have been dining off of crinoids for over 200 million years, forcing some crinoids – the sea lilies – to evolve the means to flee across the sea floor to safety, new research has shown. The study, led by the University of Michigan, is being published online in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Category: Evolutionary Biology, Invertebrate Palaeontology, Palaeontology |
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Tags: Crinoids, MMR, PNAS, Predation, Prey, Sea Urchins, Triassic, University of Michigan
Ian Randall | 4 March 2010
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A new dinosaur-like species has been uncovered from Triassic rocks in Africa – existing 10 million years before the earliest known dinosaur.
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Category: Palaeontology, Vertebrate Palaeontology |
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Tags: Africa, Asilisaurus, Dinosaur, Evolution, Fossil, Silesaur, Triassic