Oldest Animal Life on Earth Found

Dating to 650 million years ago, evidence of primitive sponges pushes the fossil record back by about 70 million years.

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http://news.discovery.com/animals/oldest-animal-fossils-sponge.html

Global Warming Not Asteroids Caused Planets Mass Extinct

"If you look at the fossil record, it is just littered with dead bodies from past catastrophes,� observes University of Washington paleontologist Peter Ward.

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http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/02/global-warming-not-asteroids-caused-planets-mass-extinction-events-leading-climate-change-experts.html

The First Hints Of A Dinosaurs True Colors

The colors of dinosaurs have long been a mystery, since soft parts aren't preserved in the fossil record.

But for the first time, scientists have teased out colors from fossilized feathers to reveal the orange-and-white ringed tail of a 125-million-year-old dinosaur.

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123018405