Paleontologists 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.
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22/10/2014
Long-Standing Deinocheirus Enigma Solved
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Reinout Verbeke
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.
20/08/2014
Neanderthals and Modern People Were Neighbours for Thousands of Years
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Reinout VerbekeNeanderthals and modern humans used to be living closeby for thousands of years. This has been calculated by an international team of scientists by reconsidering the dates of Neanderthal sites by means of a new method.
07/08/2014
Fossils Found in Siberia Suggest All Dinosaurs Had Feathers
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Reinout VerbekeThe first ever example of a plant-eating dinosaur with feathers and scales has been discovered in Russia. Previously only flesh-eating dinosaurs were known to have had feathers so this new find indicates that all dinosaurs could have been feathered.
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