Dino camouflage hints at forest home and other top stories.

• Dino camouflage hints at forest home

  

  Recent research has found dinosaurs may have cooed instead of roared, and the infamous Tyrannosaurus Rex may have been even bigger than we imagine. Now, using a particularly well-preserved fossil with hints of skin pigmentation intact, researchers at the University of Bristol have managed to produce what they call "the most scientifically accurate life-size model of a dinosaur," and used it to infer the creature's likely habitat. An ancestor of Triceratops, the Psittacosaurus was a herbivore ab..

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• trees being removed 'unnecessarily' after Great Ocean Road fires, residents say

  

  Healthy trees being removed 'unnecessarily' after Great Ocean Road fires, residents say Posted September 16, 2016 07:18:29 Hundreds of healthy trees are being felled in the Great Ocean Road hamlets of Wye River and Separation Creek in an over-zealous state campaign to remove fire affected trees, according to some residents.They allege contractors have removed trees from private properties without permission, while residents are being pressured to have trees cut down o..

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• Leonardo DiCaprio helps Oceana fight illegal fishing

  

  US actor Leonardo DiCaprio poses during a photocall of Shutter Island on February 8, 2010 in Rome. Shutter Island is the fourth collaboration between US director Martin Scorsese and his favorite actor Leonardo DiCaprio. AFP PHOTO / TIZIANA FABI (Photo credit should read TIZIANA FABI/AFP/GettyImages) (Photo: TIZIANA FABI, AFP/Getty Images) Thinking of poaching a protected reef? Big Data is watching you, with a little help from the "Wolf of Wall Street" and an ocean watch..

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• We just found out more about how NASA plans to save 'vulnerable' Earth from asteroids

  

  US president Barack Obama’s chief science advisor says the Earth is “vulnerable” to a potentially catastrophic asteroid strike. At a briefing this morning, John Holdren, director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, said we’re getting better at finding asteroids, then gave some more detail about how NASA plans to train for the possibility of an extinction threat. Specifically, the space agency’s incredible plan to visit an asteroid, take a boulder off it and put it into..

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• Hubble witnesses death throes of ancient comet

  

  Astronomers have witnessed the beginning of the end of an ancient comet. After billions of years, Comet 332P may only have a century and a half left to live, as the Hubble Space Telescope captured detailed images of it fragmenting, throwing dozens of building-sized pieces into space. The observation is helping scientists learn about the life and death of comets. Named 332P/Ikeya-Murakami, astronomers believe the comet spent about 4.5 billion years in the Kuiper Belt, the rocky region beyond Nep..

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• Starving black hole at the heart of the mysterious dimming of Markarian 1018 galaxy

  

  Starving black hole at the heart of the mysterious dimming of Markarian 1018 galaxy Posted September 16, 2016 01:12:32 An international team of astronomers has cracked the case of a mysterious galaxy that has suddenly dimmed after shining brightly for 30 years. Key pointsMarkiarian 1018 galaxy is suddenly getting dimmer after 30 yearsData shows this dimming is caused by a black hole running out of fuelVariation in brightness over short time challenges how we think ab..

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• Mars had liquid water a billion years longer than we even thought possible

  

  New evidence from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed that entire networks of lakes and streams fed by melting snow existed on Mars way later than anyone had thought possible. Based on new images taken of Mars’ ancient northern region, researchers have suggested that there was a "considerable amount of water" roughly a billion years after we thought the red planet's 'wet era' had come to an end. And that means it might have been suitable for microbial life much longer than we’ve ass..

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