Dinosaurs News - Life Science News RSS Feeds from Brightsurf Science NewsLife Science :: DinosaursDinosaurs News Stories, Current Dinosaurs News Events, Discoveries and Articleshttp://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Dinosaurs Dinosaurs News Stories Current Dinosaurs News Events, Discoveries and Articles The Mystery of Mass Extinctions Is No Longer Murky If you are curious about Earth's periodic mass extinction events such as the sudden demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, you might consider crashing asteroids and sky-darkening super volcanoes as culprits. (2008-06-18) Ebb and flow of the sea drives world's big extinction events If you are curious about Earth's periodic mass extinction events such as the sudden demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, you might consider crashing asteroids and sky-darkening super volcanoes as culprits. (2008-06-16) Mysterious mountain dino may be a new species A partial dinosaur skeleton unearthed in 1971 from a remote British Columbia site is the first ever found in Canadian mountains and may represent a new species, according to a recent examination by a University of Alberta researcher. (2008-06-13) 65-million-year-old asteroid impact triggered a global hail of carbon beads The asteroid presumed to have wiped out the dinosaurs struck the Earth with such force that carbon deep in the Earth's crust liquefied, rocketed skyward, and formed tiny airborne beads that blanketed the planet. (2008-05-06) Refining the date of the K/T boundary and the dinosaur extinction Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkeley Geochronology Center have pinpointed the date of the dinosaurs' extinction more precisely than ever thanks to refinements to a common technique for dating rocks and fossils. (2008-04-25) Medical College researchers find dinosaur clues in fat A team of researchers at New York Medical College has discovered why birds, unlike mammals, lack a tissue that is specialized to generate heat. (2008-04-24) Geologists Discover New Way of Estimating Size and Frequency of Meteorite Impacts Scientists have developed a new way of determining the size and frequency of meteorites that have collided with Earth. (2008-04-14) Grand Canyon may be as old as dinosaurs, says new study New geological evidence indicates the Grand Canyon may be so old that dinosaurs once lumbered along its rim, according to a study by researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the California Institute of Technology. (2008-04-11) Ancient reptile rises from Alberta oil sands One of the oldest and most complete plesiosaur fossils recovered in North America, and the oldest yet discovered from the Cretaceous Period, represents a new genus of the prehistoric aquatic predator according to University of Calgary palaeontologists who have formally described the creature after its remains were uncovered in a Syncrude Canada Ltd. mine near Fort McMurray in 1994. (2008-03-24) Tuatara, the fastest evolving animal In a study of New Zealand's "living dinosaur" the tuatara, evolutionary biologist, and ancient DNA expert, Professor David Lambert and his team from the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution recovered DNA sequences from the bones of ancient tuatara, which are up to 8000 years old. (2008-03-24) |
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