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LONDON (AFP) - Tyrannosaurus Rex was not just a fearsome carnivore but would have been able to outrun a finely-tuned human athlete, according to research published by scientists Wednesday.Researchers at the University of Manchester in northwest England calculated that T.Rex could reach speeds of up to 18 miles (28.4 kilometres) per hour, which is marginally […]

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Virtual races between prehistoric beasts reveal that one of the smallest carnivorous dinosaurs would have zipped past the lumbering Tyrannosaurus rex by a long shot. But even so, the “tyrant lizard king” was no slouchTurns out, T. rex could have outrun some of the buffest athletes.
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Chicago Tribune - 4:00pm
By Robert Mitchum | Tribune staff reporter August 9, 2007 Two small fossils unearthed in Kenya — the top of a skull and half of a jawbone — fill an important gap in the evolutionary story of how humans came to be, yet may have created as many …
Fossil Discoveries Challenge Theory […]

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Scotsman - 8 hours ago
IT IS the iconic image of human evolution: the gradual transformation over millions of years of an ape-like creature into a tall, modern-day human.
A New Discovery in Human Evolution Newsweek
Fossils in Kenya Challenge Linear Evolution to Homo Sapiens New York Times

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Model Rosenthal wears a ” muttering ” hat during a fashion exhibition at SIGGRAPH 2007 in San Diego …
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Aug 06 9:09 PM

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