High School Teens Find Similar Duck Baby Dinosaurs

Although still in high school , Kevin Terris , The Webbs School student , beat foresight in finding fossil dinosaur paleontologist .

Terris find the dinosaur when the school held a joint excavation expert palaeontologist Raymond M Alf Museum of Paleontology . While paleontologists who a few days earlier had observed the same area and did not find anything , Terris managed to find valuable fossils .

Dinosaurs found Terris is a type of dinosaur which looked like a duck out of the side of his mouth that looks like a beak . Called Parasaurolophus , a dinosaur that lived 75 million estimated last year .

Terris is already discovered the fossils in 2009 . However , licensing efforts for excavation and trenching themselves and make the identification of new research results announced this time . The results of this research published in the journal PeerJ .

Dinosaurs actually found was a baby , an estimated size of 1.8 meters. Named Joe , this fossil is the youngest dinosaur fossils and complex in their group . As adults , the type of dinosaur is estimated to be up to almost 8 feet .

The first dinosaurs lived in the western region of North America . This species is known with characteristics similar tube -shaped bone at the top of his head . Scientists believe that the function on the sound part to help communication .

Commenting neighbor discovery , Terris said , " Initially I was interested in seeing a bone protruding from a stone . When we then look at the skull , I am very happy . "

Many adult Parasaurolophus dinosaur groups have been found . However , this finding is unique because it represents Parasaurolophus when young . When young , this dinosaur had only bumps on the head that would later develop into a similar organ in the head tube .

Andrew Farke of Raymond M Alf Museum of Paleontology and his team conducted scanning to reconstruct the vocal abilities that can be produced by infant and adult dinosaurs of this type .

"If this dinosaur adult can produce the sound of barking , the baby dinosaur produces chirp , " Farke said as quoted by the International Business Times , Tuesday ( 10/22/2013 ) .

" Together with its visual appearance , these traits may help the animals that live in the same area to know who the ' boss ' of the group , " said Farke .

Based on a sample of bone , Sarah Werning from Stony Brook University are also involved in the study , said that the dinosaurs died in a very young age . Dinosaurs had a circle of like the tree . At this dinosaur fossils , scientists have not found any loop .

First, Dinosaur Fossil Found in Malaysia

The team of researchers from Japan and Malaysia for the first time discovered dinosaur fossils in Malaysia .

Fossil bones that form the tooth was found in the region of Pahang . Once identified , it is the property of Spinosaurus fossil , a fish -eating dinosaur .

Fossil UM10575 coded . Scientists involved in this discovery came from the University of Malaya , Waseda University , and Kumamoto University , Japan .

Ren Hirayama of Waseda University , a professor of paleontology , was the first to successfully identify the dinosaur fossils .

A length of 23 mm and a width of 10 mm , the teeth of fossil bones found in sedimentary rocks aged between 145-75 million years .

This study has a target to explore the wealth of fossils that may exist in the Malaysian Peninsula as sediments of Jurassic periods - the Cretaceous .

Spinosaurus had a similar crocodile skull and conical teeth . Teeth also has serrations and rough edges .

Spinosaurus , as reported by Science World Report , Tuesday ( 02/25/2014 ) , has been found in many regions of Australia , Europe , and Asia.

The research team hopes to find more fossils of dinosaurs in that place . They also said that the need for protection of the discovery site .

In the Page School, A Teacher Discover New Type of Fossil Whales

A teacher in California discovered a new type of fossil whales while walking from school halls to his office .

Martin Byhower , a science teacher at the junior high school level , which he initially look quite strange stone before finally learned that the rock contains fossils .

Byhower then contacted Howel Thomas of the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles to analyze the fossils .

Based on the analysis of Thomas , discovered fossil sperm whales are the property group aged 12-15 million years completely new to science .

" From the initial analysis , the fossil appears to be a new species , and perhaps a new genus , " Thomas said as quoted by the Daily Mail , Wednesday ( 05/02/2014 ) .

Thomas said , if it proved to be a new species , these findings are very worthy to be published . this time , the museum plans to investigate further .

If proven novelty , says Thomas , then the species could be named " chadwickii " , according to the name of the school where his invention , Chadwick School .

Byhower said he was happy for the cooperation the museum . " We are pleased the Natural History Museum to help us further analyze fossils and shared its findings , " he said .

Found, Dinosaurs First of Saudi Arabia

Paleontologist had found the first dinosaur fossil from Saudi Arabia .

The findings are published in the current issue of the journal PLoS ONE on behalf of researchers from Uppsala University , Museum Victoria , Monash University , and the Saudi Geological Survey .

Fossils found when paleontologists conducting excavations in the territory of Saudi Arabia adjacent to the Red Sea . The fossils were a part of the spine and teeth .

" Fossils of dinosaurs are very rare in the Arabian Peninsula with only very fragmented bones were found , " says Benjamin Kear of Uppsala University in Sweden .

" These findings are important not only because it is where we find it, but because we are also able to identify it , " he explained .

" Also , this is the first dinosaur that are taxonomically known from the Arabian Peninsula , " said Kear in a release on the website of Uppsala University , Tuesday ( 01/07/2014 ) .

Tom Rich of Museum Victoria in Australia revealed , including rare dinosaur in Arabic because of the sedimentation of rocks in the past .

" Sedimentary rocks are deposited in stream and river during the time of the dinosaurs is rare , especially in Saudi Arabia , " he said . In the past , Arab land lies under the sea .

The bones and teeth were found in excavations this time 72 million years old . Identify reveal two types of dinosaurs .

The first is a carnivorous bipedal dinosaurs still associated with Tyranosaurus , had a body length of 6 meters . The second is that the plant-eating titanosaurs may have a body length of 20 meters .

Dinosaurs were not a new species , but only first discovered in Saudi Arabia . The same dinosaur found in Madagascar , South America , and northern Africa .

Mystery Tomb Revealed whales in Chile

It is one of the most remarkable fossil discoveries in recent years is a whale graveyard discovered in addition to the Pan American Highway in Chile .

And now scientists think they can explain how so many animals could be captured in a single location more than five million years ago .

It happened as a result of the four events en masse terdamparnya whales , according to a report in the Royal Society journal .

Evidence strongly suggests that all the whales died from eating toxic seaweed .

Mammals are dead and dying then thrown to the waves by the beach where they were buried for millions of years .

Area located in Chile 's Atacama Desert is known as the ideal whale fossil graveyard .

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Their bones visible jutting out between the coral and the location was later renamed Cerro Ballena ( " whale hill " ) .

But the U.S. and Chilean researchers a new opportunity to study the fossil when the road widened Pan American .

They were given two weeks to complete it before the area was converted into the road .

The team then recorded the details as much as possible , create a 3D digital model of the skeleton is left and move the bones to be studied in the laboratory .

" We discovered creatures such as whales extinct sea lions , dolphins are evolved and have a face like a sea lion , " said Nicholas Pyenson , paleontology experts at the Smithsonian 's National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC , USA .

" It's incredible that we could find all the stars of world fossil marine mammals in South America , " said Pyenson .

Mini T Rex fossil found in Arctic

Paleontology experts have discovered the fossilized remains of Tyrannosaurus rex ( T. rex ) dwarfs in northern Alaska . The prehistoric creatures , which live in the Arctic about 70 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period , the dreaded half-sized cousin .

Given the name Nanuqsaurus , or " lizard polar bears " in the language of the Inupiat of Alaska , this creature has an estimated length of six feet and weighing 450 pounds at adult age .

Experts say , the T rex mini is very similar to the nearby cousin , the giant Tyrannosaur , which doubled the size of Nanuqsaurus .

Part of the skull and the upper and lower molars of T. rex dwarf was discovered by the paleontologist of the Perot Museum in Dallas , Texas , in the southeastern United States . They found it while digging the remains of a small horned dinosaur skeleton other unidentified .

Anthony Fiorillo Nanuqsaurus found the bones in a quarry in the Prince Creek Formation, North Slope , Alaska , above the Arctic Circle .

This discovery is not too surprising for paleontologists because they had suspected there was a predator in the Arctic due to the presence of tooth marks on the bones of horned dinosaurs .

Tyrannosaurus dwarf discovery was published in the journal PLoS ONE .

Antarctic ice trickle, Front Elevation The Endangered Sea Water High

Melting ice in the western Antarctic could hardly be stopped , the consequences of sea level rise .

With the speed of melting ice during this , sea level rise predictions compiled by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to be adjusted .

" A large part of the West Antarctic ice sheet melts and can not go back , " said Eric Rignot , professor of Earth system at the University of California , Irvine .

" Melting can not be stopped , " he added . There are no big hills behind a layer of ice that could hold water from melting ice to not flow into the sea .

" This melting will have a major impact on sea level rise around the world , " said Rignot .

" It will raise the sea level up to 1.2 meters or 4 feet , " he added that publishes research at the Geophysical Research Letters .

Rignot study is one of the results of research on melting ice in the Antarctic were released simultaneously on Monday ( 05/12/2014 ) .

Another study conducted by Ian Joughin and published in the journal Science . Both see the changes in the Antarctic and predict future trends with computer simulations .

Rignot , which is the polar ice researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , digging satellite data , observed by aircraft and ships , as well as direct surveying Antarctic ice .

The research results revealed that melting ice in Pine Island slowed in recent years. However , it occurs because of rapid melting has occurred many years earlier .

On the other hand , based on data since 2006 , in Thwaites melting takes place more quickly .

Joughin , appropriate research , stating that the Thwaites ice melting could cause sea level rise of up to 61 cm .

The conclusion is based on data trends on the future of Antarctica , coupled with the radar data that enable see rocks under the ice .

Joughin , which is a polar ice expert at the University of Washington , said it was inevitable meltdown . Ice can melt all within a period of 200-1000 years .

" All of our simulations show that the loss of ice will make sea level rise of less than 1 cm for several hundreds of years , and then boom , will be quick , " he said .

Predicted sea level rise associated with climate change to date has not included the loss of ice in Antarctica .

Sridhar Anandakrishnan , professor of earth sciences at Pennsylvania State University , who was not involved in the study , said the results of this research will make the United Nations to change their predictions .

As quoted by AFP on Monday , he said that the upper limit of sea level rise of about 90 cm or 3 feet .

All the processes that lead to the melting of ice in Antarctica , said Anandakrishnan , related to climate change . Climate change itself is affected by humans , some of which use fossil fuels .