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The Triceratops is one of the best known species of dinosaurs: the huge, horned, rhinoceros like beast, up to 9 m (30 ft) long, 3 m (10 ft) tall and 12 tonnes heavy. But the huge beast and its relatives rooted from dwarf, dog-sized hornless Asian dinosaurs. A new species of dinosaurs discovered in a Montana is the lo... |
4 October 2007
06:13 GMT |
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T-rex might have been one of the most fearsome meat eaters ever to walk the Earth, but, surprisingly, there was a group of closely related dinosaurs that were plant-eaters; they were called the therizinosaurs. One of these odd waddling dinosaurs with long arms and enormous claws has been recently found in Gansu Provi... |
4 October 2007
02:43 GMT |
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If you had walked the Earth 150 to 65 million years ago, the birds would have seemed very strange to you. First, they all displayed a mouth full of fearsome teeth. Too few flew, and many had well developed arms, with a lizard-like tail covered by feathers. In fact, all these strange birds were not birds at all, but d... |
3 October 2007
17:11 GMT |
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Birds are dinosaurs; or is it…some dinosaurs were in fact birds? It's quite difficult to answer this question, but what's certain is that many carnivorous dinosaurs were feathered. Some of the feathered dinosaurs were even as big as a rhino. However, few dino fossils discovered up to now were feathered. A n... |
21 September 2007
06:47 GMT |
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Unlike the present-day lizards, dinosaurs had a social behavior. And now the fossils of six young dinosaurs discovered together in a Chinese "nursery" reveal that these animals formed social groups much earlier than previously believed. "The find sheds light on the life of the beaked dinosaur Psittacosaurus and on th... |
20 September 2007
03:25 GMT |
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Birds are considered dwarf flying dinosaurs. Now, an 80-million-year-old recently found dwarf dinosaur in the southern Gobi desert (Mongolia) could be a missing link in the evolutionary question of how the tiny birds evolved from the huge beasts. The new feathered dinosaur, called Mahakala (after a Tibetan god) omnog... |
7 September 2007
02:49 GMT |
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A breakup in the asteroid belt of the Sun System has now been connected by an American-Czech team from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Charles University in Prague to the catastrophic event that destroyed the dinosaurs and many contemporaneous species 65 million years ago, after combining observations with va... |
6 September 2007
03:54 GMT |
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We do not know if dino lover boys used them to impress their girls, but dinosaurs surely enjoyed orchids before their demise, as revealed by a newfound fossil. A block of amber (fossil resin) encasing an extinct, stingless bee (Proplebeia dominicana) carrying a clump of orchid pollen on its back shows that these "mas... |
30 August 2007
04:25 GMT |
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If a hungry T-rex chased you, you would stand no chance. The smallest dinosaurs were as fast as a racehorse, with about 40 mph (64 kilometers per hour), and even the huge Tyrannosaurus rex could outrun average people.Computer models were employed to calculate the top speeds for 5 carnivore dinosaurs. The velociraptor... |
22 August 2007
05:29 GMT |
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These beasts made an elephant look like a mouse. Sauropod dinosaurs were big, but the titanosaurs were the biggest of all. Argentinosaurs, a South American titanosaur, was the largest and heaviest land animal ever. It lived in South America during the middle of the Cretaceous Period (around 100 million years ago). Ar... |
31 July 2007
04:53 GMT |
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The last dinosaur died 65 million years ago. So, after so much time, all you expect to find are mineralized fossils of them, in other words just bones and teeth, as flesh rapidly rots. So you can imagine the surprise of the paleontologists when they found soft tissue in a 70 million-year-old fossil of Tyrannosaurus r... |
27 July 2007
04:19 GMT |
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Dinosaurs are regarded as the extreme beasts and totally dominating lords of their time, one of the highest stages of life's evolution. But fossils found in New Mexico suggest that dinosaurs required some time to get rid of their evolutionary cousins, the dinosauromorhs ("dinosaur like" reptiles) and turn into t... |
20 July 2007
05:02 GMT |
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Dinosaur teens were very naughty, just like the human ones. But they did not use contraceptives, and they bred even if they were teenagers, unlike birds, which are considered living dinosaurs, that have sex only after reaching an adult size. Sexual maturity before reaching adulthood is also found in crocodiles, allig... |
20 July 2007
03:34 GMT |
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This is a "living dinosaur" amongst the modern fishes, thought to have disappeared 65 million years ago, at the same time with the huge reptiles. About 375 million years ago, its ancestors stepped on the ground evolving to the line that produced amphibians and after that reptiles, birds and mammals (including us). Co... |
16 July 2007
04:55 GMT |
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They may not be famous like Brad Pitt or Mick Jagger but they are the masterminds due to which you can enjoy Jurassic Park and all dinosaur-linked issues. And the Chinese paleontologist Xu Xing seems to be the rock star of this domain. "Three years ago someone said to me: 'You are in the top three in history in ... |
13 July 2007
05:43 GMT |
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This is our direct fish ancestor. Its extinct relatives had lungs and this fish is lobed finned resembling a leg structure. About 375 million years ago, its ancestors made the step to the ground evolving to the line that produced amphibians and after that reptiles, birds and mammals (including us). It has almost 2 m ... |
10 July 2007
11:12 GMT |
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Scientists have been trying for years now to understand how from an egg just a few times bigger than an ostrich the biggest beasts that ever roamed the Earth could grow. The fossil of a baby dinosaur that lived 140 million years ago could explain how the ancient beasts could have developed from youngsters to enormous... |
9 July 2007
03:41 GMT |
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Those Asians can ingest the oddest soups, made of anything: from the swift saliva nests to shark fins or dried frogs. In fact, it's no wonder, as they believe by ingesting rhino horns or tiger penis they would achieve the potency and power of those beasts (it would be much cheaper and environmentally friendly, w... |
5 July 2007
04:54 GMT |
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The planet made "bang!" and that was all. 65 million years ago, the killer asteroid destroyed all dinosaur life on our planet. But that led to the world of today, filled with placental mammals. This is the conclusion of a new research, in a long debate over when and where these mammals - from rats and whales to human... |
21 June 2007
02:51 GMT |
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A new primitive dinosaur species, Eocursor ("early runner") parvus ("small"), discovered in South Africa, seems to be the missing link in the dinosaur evolution. The small, agile plant-eater lived in the Late Triassic, about 210 million years ago, before the emergence of the huge Jurassic beasts. Eocursor seems to be... |
14 June 2007
09:22 GMT |
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An ostrich would look like an undernourished dwarf beside a huge beaked feathered dinosaur recently discovered in China's Gobi Desert. The ostrich-like dino weighed as much as a rhino (around 1.5 tons) and was over 16 ft (5 m) tall, being the biggest feathered animal ever and the largest toothless dinosaur known... |
14 June 2007
03:41 GMT |
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Tyrannosaurus rex is one of the largest land predators ever (only a few relatives are even larger) and it's the symbol of ferocious carnivorous beasts. But the image we have about it could be false: it seems that it could not hunt on fast, agile prey. A US team has made up detailed computer models to find the pr... |
5 June 2007
06:33 GMT |
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The common theory says that dinosaurs had feathers and birds originated from feathered dinosaurs. The oldest feathered dinosaur is considered the 140-million-year-old turkey-sized Sinosauropteryx. Scientists considered the distinctive patterns encountered on the skin of a Sinosauropteryx ("Chinese lizard wing") fossi... |
5 June 2007
02:59 GMT |
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They had feathers and a complex behavior.Now scientists are decoding their sensory abilities. A team at the University of Maryland led by professor Robert Dooling claims that dinosaurs probably heard many low frequency sounds, like the heavy footsteps of another dinosaurs, but they were unable to detect the high pit... |
2 June 2007
03:41 GMT |
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A team at the Morrison Natural History Museum has found two rare hatchling dinosaur footprints in the foothills west of Denver, close to the town of Morrison, within sight of the skyscrapers of downtown Denver. They attributed the prints to Stegosaurus offspring. "The tracks are so crisply preserved that I can imagin... |
28 May 2007
04:14 GMT |
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Apparently, dinosaurs have been linked to the land. But a decade ago, researchers discovered the fossils of Suchomimus, a therapod (T-rex like) dinosaur from Central Africa, which 100 million years ago clearly fished with its crocodile-like snout. But all these are suppositions, as nothing about the behavior of that ... |
24 May 2007
10:32 GMT |
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Tyrannosaurus rex was the terror of the dinosaur world. Now researchers not only have calculated the power of its terrible bite, but also the secret behind it: its hardened snout. "Fused, archlike nasal bones are a unique feature of tyrannosaurids. This adaptation, for instance, was keeping the T. rexes from breaking... |
21 May 2007
03:06 GMT |
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Australia has been regarded as rich in dinosaurs as it is today in evolved mammals: quite poor, that is. But a new discovery sheds more light on the dinosaur fauna of this now isolated continent. Researchers presented on Thursday the bones of two 82 ft (25 m) long Titanosaurs. These are the largest dinosaurs ever di... |
4 May 2007
02:45 GMT |
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The classical story is that dinosaurs dominated the Earth for hundreds of millions of years, until an asteroid collided into the Yucatan Peninsula and provoked 65 million years ago a mass extinction that permitted the ancestors of today's mammals to thrive.The asteroid part did occur, but now, the dinosaurs'... |
29 March 2007
06:56 GMT |
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In our minds, the word "dinosaur" is synonymous to huge. But not all the dinosaurs were enormous beasts. And perhaps the most interesting dinosaurs were found amongst the tiny ones. Dromaeosaurs were mainly small, agile, gracile bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs that inhabited Asia and the Americas during the Cretaceous ... |
24 March 2007
05:48 GMT |
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Dinosaurs have fascinated everybody since their discovery, but this was mainly due to their sheer size. In time, scientists discovered really interesting things about them: some were feathered, they were warm-blooded, they cared for their offspring, some had "hands", some flew...Now researchers have discovered a new ... |
21 March 2007
03:47 GMT |
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Crocodiles are as old as dinosaurs. Now, researchers made an astonishing discovery from the period when crocodiles' prey was formed by dinosaurs. The fossil compasses about 50 % of a 1.8-2.4 m (6- 8-ft) crocodile, including long, needlepoint teeth found imbedded in Jurassic rock on private property in the Snowsh... |
19 March 2007
10:32 GMT |
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First mammals roamed with the dinosaurs during the Mesozoic Era. Now, an American-Chinese team has dug a new species of ancestral mammal, 125 million years old, that represents a missing link, providing for the first time fossil evidence on how mammals developed their middle ear, one of the most distinctive traits of... |
15 March 2007
06:18 GMT |
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Birds were known for a very long time to have emerged from dinosaurs, but more recently, researchers sniffed out many long-thought strictly avian traits inherited from dinosaurs: feathers, nesting, parental care. Now, the difference between birds and dinosaurs gets even thiner as both groups were found to present the... |
8 March 2007
03:19 GMT |
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One of the most evolved herbivorous dinosaurs was the ceratopsid. Even if you are or not a dinosaur fan, these are very familiar figures to you, with their rhino like appearance, some forms possessing three large facial horns (one on the nose, and two over the eyebrows) and a large bony frill and beaked snout. Till n... |
5 March 2007
09:41 GMT |
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