AFP - The fossil of a stocky new dinosaur with two sets of claws on its feet unearthed in Romania has given researchers a window into what European predators looked like in the final years of the Age of Dinosaurs.

AFP - Scientists unveiled fossils from west Africa Thursday that push back the dawn of multicellular life on Earth by at least 1.5 billion years.

LiveScience.com - Scientists have revealed what may be the world's largest
dinosaur graveyard.

AFP - A surprise find of three skull bones in western Hungary has prompted palaeontologists to rethink the story of horned dinosaurs, a clan that includes triceratops, the mighty prong-headed dino that is a favourite children's toy.

AP - Last fall, a fossil skeleton named "Ardi" shook up the field of human evolution. Now, some scientists are raising doubts about what exactly the creature from Ethiopia was and what kind of landscape it inhabited.

AFP - Dinosaur footprints up to 1.2 meters (four feet) in diameter have been found in an area of Patagonia known as Argentina's "Jurassic Park," a scientist said Wednesday.

LiveScience.com - A shrunken brain may potentially lie inside the fossil skull
of a newfound candidate for the immediate ancestor to the human lineage,
researchers now reveal.