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U. of Colorado researcher identifies tracks of swimming dinosaur in Wyoming
The tracks of a previously unknown, two-legged swimming dinosaur have been identified along the shoreline of an ancient inland sea that covered Wyoming 165 million years ago, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder graduate student. view more (2005-10-18)
Evidence of the 'Lost World' -- did dinosaurs survive the end Cretaceous extinctions?
The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's account of an isolated community of dinosaurs that survived the catastrophic extinction event 65 million years ago, has no less appeal now than it did when it was written a century ago. view more (2009-04-28)
Paleontologists establish first age distribution of non-avian dinosaur population
For the first time, scientists have established the age structure of a non-avian dinosaur population. Using this information, they inferred which factors led to survival or death of group members. view more (2006-07-17)
Largest carnivorous dinosaur tooth in Spain described
Researchers from the Teruel-Dinópolis Joint Palaeontology Foundation have compared an Allosauroidea tooth found in deposits in Riodeva, Teruel, with other similar samples. view more (2009-06-22)
Unexpected finding: Some dinosaurs grew slower in hard times
Palaeontologists from the University of Bonn report on an intriguing diagnosis in the 16 December issue of the journal Science. A dinosaur which they have examined was apparently able to vary the speed of its growth according the conditions obtaining in its environment. view more (2005-12-16)
Skull study sheds light on dinosaur diversity
With their long necks and tails, sauropod dinosaurs-famous as the Sinclair gasoline logo and Fred Flintstone's gravel pit tractor-are easy to recognize, in part because they all seem to look alike. view more (2005-09-16)
Trotting with emus to walk with dinosaurs
One way to make sense of 165-million-year-old dino tracks may be to hang out with emus, say paleontologists studying thousands of dinosaur footprints at the Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite in northern Wyoming. view more (2006-10-25)
Beaked, bird-like dinosaur tells story of finger evolution
Scientists have discovered a unique beaked, plant-eating dinosaur in China. The finding, they say, demonstrates that theropod, or bird-footed, dinosaurs were more ecologically diverse in the Jurassic period than previously thought, and offers important evidence about how the three-fingered hand of birds evolved from the hand of dinosaurs. view more (2009-06-18)
MSU, Mongolian paleontologists find 67 dinosaurs in one week
One recent week in the Gobi Desert produced 67 dinosaur skeletons for a team of paleontologists from Montana and Mongolia who want to flesh out the developmental biology of dinosaurs. view more (2006-09-15)
Velociraptor had feathers
A new look at some old bones have shown that velociraptor, the dinosaur made famous in the movie Jurassic Park, had feathers. A paper describing the discovery, made by paleontologists at the American Museum of Natural History and the Field Museum of Natural History, appears in the Sept. 21 issue of the journal Science. view more (2007-09-21)
Was male domination deadly for dinosaurs?
Dinosaurs suddenly died out because they gave birth to too many males as a result of climate change. This is the theory put forward by David Miller of medicine and Jonathen Summers of mechanical engineering at the University of Leeds. They believe that dinosaur populations died out because the sex of their offspring was determined by temperature.... view more... (2004-05-10)
Fragments of dinosaur protein survive in bone fossils
Proteins are tougher than we think - which is good news for scientists trying to piece together the history of evolution from fragments of ancient DNA. In this month’s (December 2000) edition of the journal, Geology, Dr Matthew Collins, of Newcastle University, England, shows how significant pieces of delicate protein have survived in... view more... (2000-12-18)
Dinosaur Burrow Find Gives Climate Change Clues
On the heels of his discovery in Montana of the first trace fossil of a dinosaur burrow, Emory University paleontologist Anthony Martin has found evidence of more dinosaur burrows - this time on the other side of the world, in Victoria, Australia. view more (2009-07-13)
Dinosaurs Did Not Hatch Their Eggs
Dinosaurs laid eggs, but as dinosaurs were much heavier than birds, dinosaurs were unable to hatch the eggs. They would have simply broken them. The eggs at that time were alive, fragile, not fossilized and could not stand heavy pressure. Anyway, dinosaurs were reptiles and the reptiles do not sit on the nests. But did they take care of the... view more... (2001-12-25)
Centennial of Russian Dinosaurs
A first collection of dinosaur bones was gathered in the Amur area a hundred years ago. The last year, palaeontologists completed the excavation of an entire well-preserved skeleton of a hadrosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous period. They made a nice present for themselves for the coming jubilee! The skeleton was found in the southeast of... view more... (2002-11-05)
Massive dinosaur discovered in Antarctica sheds light on life, distribution of sauropodomorphs
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. view more (2007-12-11)
Dinosaur Fossil Bone Leads to Gender, Age Determinations
Paleontologists at North Carolina State University have determined that a 68 million year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil from Montana is that of a young female, and that she was producing eggs when she died. view more (2005-06-02)
Sensational find: The mini-dinosaurs from the Harz Mountains
When unusually small dinosaur fossils were found in a quarry on the northern edge of the Harz Mountains in 1998, it was initially assumed that these were the remains of a group of young dinosaurs. view more (2006-06-08)
Earliest embryos ever discovered provide clues to dinosaur evolution, parenting
The embryos of a long-necked, herbivorous dinosaur are the earliest ever recorded for any terrestrial vertebrate and point to how primitive dinosaurs evolved into the largest animals ever to walk on earth. view more (2005-07-29)
Duck-billed dinosaurs outgrew predators to survive
With long limbs and a soft body, the duck-billed hadrosaur had few defenses against predators such as tyrannosaurs. But new research on the bones of this plant-eating dinosaur suggests that it had at least one advantage: It grew to adulthood much faster than its predators, giving it superiority in size. view more (2008-08-06)
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