All Articles Tagged As: dinosaurs
 | Paleontologists have long been perplexed by dinosaur fossils with missing pieces - sets of teeth without a jaw bone, bones that are pitted and grooved, even bones that are half gone. Now a study identifies a culprit: ancient insects that munched on dinosaur bones. ...> Full Article |
 | T. rex -> bird relationship derived exclusively from collagen protein sequence data ...> Full Article |
 | Nearly every town and village in Britain was once a stomping ground for dinosaurs, a surprisingly high number of which may have originated here in the country which first discovered them, according to the first major review of Britain's dinosaur history. ...> Full Article |
 | Study has revealed how komodo dragon can be such an efficient killing machine despite having a wimpy bite and a featherweight skull ...> Full Article |
 | Researcher has confirmed that dome-headed dinosaurs called pachycephalosaurs could collide with each other during courtship combat ...> Full Article |
 | Dinosaur-era sea creature named for Calgary scientist after being unearthed at Syncrude mine ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists discover of one of the largest dinosaur-era marine reptiles ever found â€" an enormous sea predator known as a pliosaur estimated to be almost 15 meters (50 feet) feet long ...> Full Article |
The remains of two new 110-million-year-old carnivorous dinosaurs have been named by a student from Bristol University and his former professor from fossils dug up in the Sahara Desert.
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 | The fossils of a dinky pterosaur ("winged lizard" in Greek, a group of winged reptiles that ruled the skies from 206 million to 65 million years ago) has been discovered by CAS paleontologists and their Brazilian co-workers in northeast China's Liaoning Province. The discovery was published February 11 online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ...> Full Article |
 | Cretaceous-era duck-billed dinosaur discovery opens new window into time when much of continent was submerged ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists from the University of Bonn are researching which plants giant dinosaurs could have lived off more than 100 million years ago. They want to find out how the dinosaurs were able to become as large as they did. In actual fact such gigantic animals should not have existed. The results of the research have now been published in the journal 'Proceedings of the Royal Society B'. ...> Full Article |
 | Dinosaurs descended from reptiles and evolved into today's birds, but their growth and sexual maturation were more like that of mammals - complete with teen pregnancy, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, scientists. ...> Full Article |
 | An unusual British dinosaur has been shown to have a skull that functioned like a fish-eating crocodile, despite looking like a dinosaur. It also possessed two huge hand claws, perhaps used as grappling hooks to lift fish from the water. ...> Full Article |
 | The celebrated Bristol Dinosaur, Thecodontosaurus, has been shown to live on subtropical islands around Bristol, instead of in a desert on the mainland as previously thought. ...> Full Article |
 | Asteroid impacts or massive volcanic flows might have occurred around the time dinosaurs became extinct, but a new arguemet is that the mightiest creatures the world has ever known may have been brought down by a tiny, much less dramatic force -- biting, disease-carrying insects. ...> Full Article |
A new genus and species of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic has been discovered in Antarctica. The massive plant-eating primitive sauropodomorph is called Glacialisaurus hammeri and lived about 190 million years ago.
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 | The remains of one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs ever found have recently been recognized as representing a new species by a student working at the University of Bristol. ...> Full Article |
Palaeontologist Dr Phil Manning, working with National Geographic Channel has uncovered the Holy Grail of palaeontology in the United States: a partially intact dino mummy.
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 | Outback Queensland has become the focus of an international research project that is helping to decipher the evolution of Australian dinosaurs and their relationships to those of other southern continents. ...> Full Article |
 | A 110-million-year-old dinosaur that had a mouth that worked like a vacuum cleaner, hundreds of tiny teeth and nearly translucent skull bones has been discovered. ...> Full Article |
 | Fossil tracks belonging to large, carnivorous dinosaurs (Theropods) have been discovered near Inverloch by palaeontologists from Monash University and Museum of Victoria. ...> Full Article |
 | Paleontologists have discovered and spent the past decade making sense of a bizarre dinosaur with a mouth that worked like a vacuum cleaner, hundreds of tiny teeth and a paper-thin spine. ...> Full Article |
Scientists have discovered how dinosaurs used to breathe in what provides clues to how they evolved and how they might have lived.
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 | A series of monumental volcanic eruptions in India may have killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, not a meteor impact in the Gulf of Mexico. The eruptions, which created the gigantic Deccan Traps lava beds of India, are now the prime suspect in the most famous and persistent paleontological murder mystery, say scientists who have conducted a slew of new investigations honing down eruption timing. ...> Full Article |
 | Canada's high Arctic and the deserts of Africa may seem like worlds apart but remarkably enough, there are similarities. Both played home to dinosaurs and both are extreme climates. ...> Full Article |
The first fossil tracks belonging to large, carnivorous dinosaurs have been discovered in Victoria, Australia. The tracks are especially significant for showing that large dinosaurs were living in a polar environment during the Cretaceous Period, when Australia was still joined to Antarctica and close to the South Pole.
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 | Utah and California researchers unearth new duck-billed species in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument ...> Full Article |
 | Until this year, digging for dinosaurs along the North Slope's Colville River in Alaska meant working on a narrow beach, with steep bluffs on one side and the river's swift, cold waters on the other. ...> Full Article |
 | A dinosaur skeleton found 24 years ago near Choteau has finally been identified as a new species that links North American dinosaurs with Asian dinosaurs. The dinosaur would have weighed 30 to 40 pounds, walked on two feet and stood about three feet tall. The fossil came from sediment that's about 80 million years old. ...> Full Article |
 | A new look at some old bones have shown that velociraptor, the dinosaur made famous in the movie Jurassic Park, had feathers. The discovery was made by paleontologists at the American Museum of Natural History and the Field Museum of Natural History. ...> Full Article |
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