Parasites May Have Killed T-Rex

A new study finds Tyrannosaurus Rex may have become extinct due to the work of a small one-celled parasitic organism, which caused lacerations in the dinosaur's jaw bone. The disease trichomoniasis gallinae causes lesions in the beaks of modern birds of prey, and Australian...

Australian Kangaroos Found With Crossbow Arrows In Their Bodies

Two Australian kangaroos have been found with meter-long crossbow arrows sticking out from their bodies. One of the animals had its jaw punctured through by an arrow, surviving for a week before it was found near...

Credit Crunch takes toll on teeth

As the stock market causes worries so it also causes problems with the teeth and jaws as part of the credit crunch blues people grind their teeth in their sleep without realising."Do you wake up with a headache,...

Arkansas teen's jaw broken by flying fish

15-year old Arkansas teen, Seth Russell, was knocked unconscious and his jaw was broken when a Silver Asian carp flew out of the waters of Lake Chicot, striking him square in the face.""He doesn't remember...

Finnish patient gets new jaw from own stem cells

Brave new world alert: a Finnish man had his upper jaw replaced by a new jaw grown from his own stem cells and incubated in his abdomen for nine months.Somewhere in America a big dog barked."Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a...

Skull, jaw fossils offer new insight into human lineage

"A 1-1/2-million-year-old skull and an equally old jaw found in Kenya are helping rewrite the history of early man, eliminating one reputed ancestor from the human lineage and suggesting that another was much more primitive than previously believed, researchers said...

Ancient mystery creature now named by researchers

Edmonton - For the first time, researchers at the University of Alberta have been able to put a name and a description to an ancient mammal that still defies classification.The findings, published recently in the...

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