Fossils suggest the ancestor of horses and rhinos originated on the Asian subcontinent while it was still an island.
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20/11/2014
Fossils Suggest Horses' Ancestors Originated in India
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Reinout Verbeke
24/10/2014
QuakeRecNankai: Expedition to Examine Japan's Earthquakes and Tsunamis
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Reinout VerbekeVanessa Heyvaert and Ed Garrett, scientists of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), are in Japan searching for evidence of past earthquakes and tsunamis.
22/10/2014
Long-Standing Deinocheirus Enigma Solved
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Reinout VerbekePaleontologists have exhaustively described one of the most mysterious dinosaurs after tracing stolen fossils. The dinosaur, Deinocheirus mirificus, appears defy previous presumptions: he had huge grasping arms and claws, but was a non-dangerous omnivore.
23/09/2014
Earliest Evidence of Modern Humans in Central Europe
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Stagiaire CommunicationAn international research team, including the Belgians Freddy Damblon and Paul Haesaerts (both of the RBINS), has shown that modern humans were living on the cold steppes of present-day Austria 43,500 years ago.
11/09/2014
New Species of Extinct Dolphin Sheds Light on River Dolphin History
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Reinout VerbekeA team of palaeontologists, led by our colleague Olivier Lambert (RBINS), recently described the dolphin species Huaridelphis raimondii, that lived in what is now Peru during the Miocene period, 16 million years ago.
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