Science Current Events | Science News | Brightsurf.com
 

Dinosaur Extinction Current Events | Dinosaur Extinction News | 5
Page 5 of 12 | 296 Results
Previous0102030405060708091011   Next   
Sort By: Page Views | Date
Twenty of World's 162 Grouper Species Threatened With Extinction
The first comprehensive assessment of the world's 162 species of grouper, a culinary favorite and important commercial fish, found that 20 are threatened with extinction unless proper management or conservation measures are introduced.   view more (2007-03-22)

Cold is hot in evolution — UBC researchers debunk belief species evolve faster in tropics
University of British Columbia researchers have discovered that contrary to common belief, species do not evolve faster in warmer climates.   view more (2007-03-16)

Insect predation sheds light on food web recovery after the dinosaur extinction
The recovery of biodiversity after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction was much more chaotic than previously thought, according to paleontologists.   view more (2006-08-25)

Molecular Biologists Reveal Historical Secrets
By analysing DNA from ancient human remains researchers can determine the sex and ethnicity of our ancestors and help historians to compose a complete picture of their life and customs. In the region of Altai Mountains archaeologists discovered remains of an ancient civilisation. During... view more (2002-07-05)

Ancient mother spawns new insight on reptile reproduction
A 75-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant turtle and a nest of fossilized eggs that were discovered in the badlands of southeastern Alberta by scientists and staff from the University of Calgary and the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology are yielding new ideas on the evolution of egg-laying and... view more (2008-08-28)

Latest study: scientists say no evidence exists that therapod dinosaurs evolved into birds
No good evidence exists that fossilized structures found in China and which some paleontologists claim are the earliest known rudimentary feathers were really feathers at all, a renowned ornithologist says.   view more (2005-10-10)

Mongolian paleontologists with a dream come to MSU
Jack Horner has flown to Mongolia the past three summers to search for dinosaur bones. Now three members of his field crew have joined him at Montana State University to start developing a new generation of Mongolian paleontologists.   view more (2008-01-16)

Climate change drives widespread amphibian extinctions
Results of a new study provide the first clear proof that global warming is causing outbreaks of an infectious disease that is wiping out entire frog populations and driving many species to extinction.   view more (2006-01-12)

Priority regions for threatened frog and toad conservation in Latin America
Nearly 35% of all amphibians are now threatened of extinction raising them to the position of the most endangered group of animals in the world.   view more (2008-05-07)

FSU biologist says new dinosaur is oldest cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex
Tyrannosaurus rex, meet your newest -- oldest -- cousin. Florida State University paleobiologist Gregory M. Erickson sliced up some ancient dinosaur bones uncovered in China to help an international team of scientists identify a new genus and species.    view more (2006-02-10)

Newly discovered birdlike dinosaur is oldest raptor ever found in South America
The recent discovery of a 90-million-year-old dinosaur in Patagonia demonstrates that dromaeosaurs, a group of carnivorous theropods that includes Velociraptor and is closely related to birds, originated much earlier than previously thought.   view more (2005-10-13)

Why are lions not as big as elephants?
Carnivores are some of the widest ranging terrestrial mammals for their size, and this affects their energy intake and needs.   view more (2007-01-16)

Protein fragments sequenced in 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex
In a venture once thought to lie outside the reach of science, researchers from Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have captured and sequenced tiny pieces of collagen protein from a 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex.   view more (2007-04-13)

Global warming threatens Australia's iconic kangaroos
As concerns about the effects of global warming continue to mount, a new study published in the December issue of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology finds that an increase in average temperature of only two degrees Celsius could have a devastating effect on populations of Australia's iconic... view more (2008-10-16)

Toothy dinosaur newest to come out of southern Utah
The newest dinosaur species to emerge from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument had some serious bite, according to researchers from the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah.   view more (2007-10-04)

Height or flight?
Paleontologists have long theorized that miniaturization was one of the last stages in the long series of changes required in order for dinosaurs to make the evolutionary "leap" to take flight and so become what we call birds.   view more (2007-09-07)

Race to halt global amphibian crisis boosted by rediscovery of endangered Colombian frogs
The rediscovery of two frog species feared extinct has made a new Colombian protected area the focal point for efforts to save amphibians from a deadly fungus decimating their populations in Central and South America.   view more (2006-06-07)

Tiny pikas seem to be on march toward extinction in Great Basin
The tiny rabbit-like American pika, an animal species considered to be one of the best canaries in a coal mine for detecting global warming in the western United States, appears to be veering toward the brink of extinction in the Great Basin.   view more (2005-12-29)

What we can learn from the biggest extinction in the history of Earth
Approximately 250 million years ago, vast numbers of species disappeared from Earth. This mass-extinction event may hold clues to current global carbon cycle changes, according to Jonathan Payne, assistant professor of geological and environmental sciences.   view more (2007-08-10)

T. rex quicker than Becks, say scientists
T. rex may have struggled to chase down speeding vehicles as the movie Jurassic Park would have us believe but the world's most fearsome carnivore was certainly no slouch, research out today suggests.   view more (2007-08-22)

Smithsonian study concludes Caribbean extinctions occurred 2M years after apparent cause
Smithsonian scientists and colleagues report a new study that may shake up the way paleontologists think about how environmental change shapes life on Earth. The researchers summarized the environmental, ecological and evolutionary consequences for Caribbean shallow-water marine communities when... view more (2007-03-13)

The future of tropical forests
Deforestation and habitat loss are expected to lead to an extinction crisis among tropical forest species. Humans in rural settings contribute most to deforestation of extant tropical forests.   view more (2006-04-07)

Biodiversity loss linked to economic inequality worldwide
An interdisciplinary team of McGill researchers has uncovered a connection between growing economic inequality and an increase in the number of plant and animal species that are threatened with extinction.   view more (2007-05-16)

Hot spots for cool birds
Global research highlighting the most important areas for albatross migration and breeding may yet help save these magical birds from extinction.   view more (2004-11-08)

Risk of extinction accelerated due to interacting human threats
The simultaneous effect of habitat fragmentation, overexploitation, and climate warming could accelerate the decline of populations and substantially increase their risk of extinction, a study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B has warned.   view more (2007-02-08)
Page 5 of 12 | 296 Results
Previous0102030405060708091011   Next   
Sort By: Page Views | Date
© 2008 BrightSurf.com