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Though not all dinosaurs were behemoths, some grew to be more than 100 feet (30 meters) tall. Experts have always wondered what made the creatures grow so tall, and now they are starting to form a picture of the factors that interacted to make this a reality.
Some of the contributing factors may sound weird at firs... |
6 February 2012
10:50 GMT |
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A new study of fossils belonging to Majungasaurus crenatissimus, a magnificent predator that lived between 70 and 65.5 million years ago, suggests that the creature had little use of its forelimbs. Its arms were merely a decoration, as they were too short and stubby to be of any real use.
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12 January 2012
09:37 GMT |
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The Southern Continent is currently the domain of penguins and never ending ice fields, but things were not always like that. In the distant past, researchers uncovered, the forests of Antarctica were roamed by a multitude of dinosaur species. At the time, the continent beneath the South Pole was connected to Austral... |
22 December 2011
11:02 GMT |
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In a discovery that could also shed more light on the origin of naturally-occurring flight, researchers determined that the feather-covered, highly-intelligent Velociraptors most likely used their claws in a similar manner to how modern birds of prey use their talons.
Large birds simply grab hold of their prey, and ... |
16 December 2011
02:43 GMT |
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Jurassic Park: The Game, a brand new cinematic adventure that takes players back to Isla Nublar and continues the classic story from 1993, has been released for multiple platforms, including Apple’s iPad.Unlike the full-fledged console and PC versions of the game, the iPad port is labeled ‘episode one&rsq... |
16 November 2011
15:41 GMT |
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The international scientific community knows a group of plants known as cycads for having lived at the same time the dinosaurs did, more than 65 million years ago. However, a new study shows that these plants are not living fossils, since they only developed a few million years ago.Until now, researchers were convinc... |
22 October 2011
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The most recent investigations conducted with the NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft suggest that the family of asteroids which was widely believed to have been responsible for the extinction event that killed off all the dinosaurs is in fact innocent of all charges.
Dinosaurs were wiped f... |
20 September 2011
04:15 GMT |
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Paleontologists have recently determined that the end of the Age of Dinosaurs came about abruptly, in one fell swoop, rather than progressively, as other researchers suggested in the past. These conclusions are based on a thorough analysis of a single dinosaur horn. The issue as to whether the extinction of these gia... |
13 July 2011
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In a study supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), researchers managed to obtain the first measurements indicating the temperatures of dinosaurs' bodies. These data can help us determine whether the creatures were quick and agile on their feet, or rather slow and lumbering.The new investigation wa... |
24 June 2011
06:02 GMT |
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Strangely, few people thought that the mighty dinosaurs may have had such a common problem as lice. Yet experts seem to believe that this was precisely the case, especially as far as the feathered of the giant lizards went. Dinosaurs are now believed to have been affected by the same type of parasites as young childr... |
6 April 2011
09:45 GMT |
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For years, experts have been discovering fossilized dinosaur footprints at a wide variety of locations, but these remains appeared to be exclusive. This means that only large prints were found, and no smaller ones. A new research now clarifies the mystery, opening the door for a new interpretation on those ancient ha... |
9 February 2011
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University of Alberta researchers used a new fossil-dating technique and concluded that some non-avian dinosaurs survived mass extinction by 700,000 years.This direct-dating method was used on a fossilized hadrosaur bone found in New Mexico, and contradicted the widely accepted idea that the end of the age of dinosau... |
28 January 2011
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Researchers from the Museum of Texas Tech discovered and identified what is believed to be the oldest crocodile ancestor ever to be found. It seems that the animal lived in the tropical rainforests of West Texas, which scientists say that it looked more like Costa Rica, some 225 million years ago. Sankar Chatterjee... |
14 January 2011
08:33 GMT |
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Experts announce the discovery of a never-before-seen species of dinosaurs that roamed in South American more than 230 million years ago, when the giant lizards were barely beginning to develop and assume dominance over all ecosystems. The finding was made by a collaboration of geologists and paleontologists based in... |
14 January 2011
07:04 GMT |
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The Luoping fossil site in the Yunnan Province in south-west China, has provided valuable fossils that shed light on the way that life on Earth has recovered from the greatest mass extinction in our planet’s history.
The work is led by scientists from the Chengdu Geological Center in China and was presented ... |
22 December 2010
02:57 GMT |
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Dinosaurs once ruled our planet but after they disappeared 65 million years ago, it was the time for mammals to thrive, the proof being that there were some that even got a thousand times bigger than they used to be.This is the first study that actually proves that there was a new pattern of increased body size in ma... |
26 November 2010
05:27 GMT |
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In addition to having a keen, motion-based vision, strong feet and sharp teeth, it would appear that Tyrannosaurs Rex also boasted the ability to run very fast, a lot more so than researchers first gave it credit for. The conclusion is based on a new study of the dinosaur's backside. Researchers determined that ... |
19 November 2010
09:49 GMT |
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After over 30 years of sitting in collections, a few extremely well-preserved dinosaur eggs containing the oldest embryos of any land-dwelling vertebrate ever found, gave new insight into the development and growth of early dinosaurs.They were found in 1976 in South Africa, and they are 190 million years old, dating ... |
13 November 2010
06:53 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, researchers propose that the earliest winged dinosaurs ran and flew in pretty much the same way as certain species of modern turkeys do. The scientists believe that primitive birds and proto-bird dinosaurs alike shared a lot of traits in common with precocious brush turkeys such as the ones... |
3 November 2010
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In a new series of scientific investigations, experts have demonstrated that analysis of the places where dinosaurs died and were buried can reveal additional insight into how the animals lived. Using the new approach, a team of researchers was already able to determine that the renowned predator Tyrannosaurus Rex li... |
13 October 2010
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According to new scientific evidence, it would appear that it was possible for ancient creatures called pterosaurs to fly for up to 10,000 miles without stop, many million years before jet flight was invented. These animals were the rulers of the sky before the K-T extinction. The event took place some 65 million yea... |
13 October 2010
04:49 GMT |
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A team of investigators managed to uncover two new species of dinosaur at a site in Utah. The creatures were slightly smaller than their most famous “peers,” but they make up for that by having over-sized, multi-horned heads.Researchers basically describe them as a “giant rhinos with a ridiculously ... |
23 September 2010
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Gregory Price from the University of Plymouth, UK and Elizabeth Nunn from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, discovered that there was a severe drop in the Earth's temperature, 137 million years ago, during the warm and balanced climate of the Cretaceous Period.As a result, the water temperature of th... |
14 September 2010
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The latest discoveries made by paleontologists are always said to “rewrite evolutionary history”, but is this really true and mankind has learned nothing about its past?A few researchers at the University of Bristol wanted to find out exactly how strong is our understanding of evolution.The team led by Dr... |
1 September 2010
04:58 GMT |
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A team of investigators announces the discovery of a new species of dinosaurs that they say is closely related to the renowned predator Velociraptor. The animal appears to have roamed the European continent during the Late Cretaceous period. This epoch ended with the K-T extinction event (the K-T boundary), which too... |
31 August 2010
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Studies of fossilized feathers revealed that the earliest ancestors of modern birds could not readily flap their wings and soar to the air. The research showed that, while the wings themselves were indeed developed, and ready to take the creatures to the skies, the feathers were far from ready to generate enough lift... |
15 May 2010
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Anthropologists and paleontologists were finally able to accurately confirm the existence of a diminutive species of dinosaurs on lands that are now part of Transylvania, in Romania. Fossilized remains belonging to the creatures have been discovered for the first time more than a century ago, but classifying the smal... |
5 May 2010
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According to a recent scientific investigation, it would appear that the skulls of dinosaurs in some species underwent massive transformation from when they were small offspring until they became adults. Proportionally speaking, like in most other animals, dinosaur babies had larger eyes and smaller faces than their ... |
2 April 2010
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One of the smallest dinosaurs ever found was recently unearthed in China by a team of archaeologists. The experts say that the fossilized remains would seem to indicate that this particular creature was one of the fastest and most agile to have lived in its days, and have therefore dubbed it as a “roadrunner.&r... |
30 March 2010
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According to the results of a new scientific study, a sand dune collapse that took place some 185 million years ago may have been the principal factor behind a dinosaur fossil recovered from Utah. Researchers hypothesize in a recently-published study that a large amount of the stuff collapsed at one point, hitting a ... |
24 March 2010
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Dinosaurs were the ultimate rulers of our planet for many millions of years, particularly within a time span stretching from 200 million years ago to roughly 65 million years ago. Marked by two catastrophic extinction events, the time of the dinosaurs is divided in the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, and e... |
23 March 2010
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A group of archaeologists and paleontologists has recently made an important discovery when they unearthed the remains of a dinosaur that was found to be closely related to the famous Velociraptor. The fossilized bones were discovered in inner Mongolia, and the research team is ecstatic with the discovery. The two di... |
19 March 2010
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Researchers have recently determined that an ancient, crocodile-like reptile had an appetite for eating sea turtles, as well as dinosaurs. According to evidence found on bones and shells, it would seem that the predator, which was about the length of two modern cars, did not resent eating most things it could find, e... |
19 March 2010
03:29 GMT |
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Establishing what killed the dinosaurs is something the international scientific community has been trying to do for decades. A large number of theories on this issue have been published, rebutted and considered, but a clear consensus has yet to be achieved. Numerous scientists have rallied themselves to various poin... |
5 March 2010
03:43 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, experts managed to discover the fossilized remains of dinosaur ancestors dating back to at least 243 million years ago. This new finding pushes back the date when the giant lizards developed by at least 10 million years, experts say. The ancestor discovered during the new digs goe... |
4 March 2010
03:20 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new finding, researchers have determined that dinosaur exhibited the same type of wrists that birds would later employ long before animal flight developed. According to the experts, the flexible type of joint that allowed birds then to fold their wings were a common presence in fully-terrestrial a... |
3 March 2010
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For the first time ever, experts have managed to obtain definite proof that ancient snakes were indeed in the habit of eating dinosaur eggs and hatchlings. Some researchers had proposed this idea, but until now no solid piece of evidence has been found to support it. In this study, scientists identified a 67-million-... |
2 March 2010
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Some 65 million years ago, a large meteorite or asteroid is thought to have hit our planet, causing one of the five large-scale, global extinction events that experts know of. The Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) dying saw the destruction of dinosaurs and other land- and ocean-based animals, but also the whipping off of rou... |
1 March 2010
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The sauropods were the largest animals to have ever inhabited the planet. No beasts before or since managed to equal them in size and might. They fed on herbs and leaves, and researchers believe that they evolved their massive bodies in order to be able to reach the tallest canopies. This also enabled these dinosaurs... |
24 February 2010
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Many years after the initial fossils were discovered, paleontologists finally managed to learn that the spinosaur was a giant lizard that really loved water. In fact, it loved it so much that it spent most of its life living and hunting in shallow streams or along shorelines. This in turn allowed it to remain relati... |
20 February 2010
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Over the past few years, more and more scientific studies that refute the widely held idea that birds evolved from dinosaurs have been published in various respected journals around the globe. Such is the case with a new paper appearing in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), wh... |
10 February 2010
17:01 GMT |
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Chinese experts have recently unearthed one of the most well-preserved fossils ever. It was left behind by a type of spider known as Eoplectreurys gertschi, of which only two other specimens were ever recovered. However, the newly discovered one is more than 120 million years older than its “peers,” as it... |
9 February 2010
05:47 GMT |
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Experts digging in the Zhucheng province of China have recently discovered what is arguably one of the largest and most massive troves of dinosaur footprints ever found. More than 3,000 fossilized tracks, belonging to several species, have been discovered at a site that has been under excavation for at least three mo... |
8 February 2010
04:18 GMT |
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For nearly 200 million years, dinosaurs reigned supreme. They were spread out across most locations on the planet, and there were no creatures that could challenge their domination except, of course, other dinosaurs. Yet, some 65 million years ago, an asteroid impact managed to wipe them all out. Some studies suggest... |
29 January 2010
04:51 GMT |
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Sometime in 2004, the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in China provided experts with the fossilized remains of a dinosaur that could not be cataloged. At that time, experts who had seen it had proposed that the creature was part of a new species, and their predictions eventually turned out to be true. The animal was named... |
29 January 2010
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Researchers have recently set forth a very bold new idea on why large flightless birds such as the ostrich lost their ability to fly. The hypothesis holds that, as the dinosaurs went extinct during the K-T event, more than 65 million years ago, they left behind an open niche, which these animals occupied. And, accord... |
28 January 2010
11:48 GMT |
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In a scientific paper published in the latest issue of the esteemed scientific publication Nature, researchers in China detail the appearance of a small dinosaur that lived more than 125 million years ago. Known as Sinosauropteryx, the tiny animal, which wasn't even tall enough to reach your knee, appears to hav... |
28 January 2010
05:05 GMT |
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Among anthropologists and paleontologists, there has been a longstanding debate as to whether feathered dinosaurs, the early ancestors of modern birds, took to the skies by making longer and longer leaps from the ground, or by jumping off tree branches. A recent investigation appears to have what it takes to settle t... |
26 January 2010
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For a long time, experts have believed that the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs was followed, immediately after the impact, by a combustion of the world's forests. The scientists thought that droplets of molten rock that were formed when the space rock hit heated up the atmosphere by a few degrees for mor... |
29 December 2009
02:27 GMT |
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Three students from the University of Alberta, in Canada, have recently contributed to clearing up a mistake that has endured in the field of paleontology since the 1970s. Through their work, they helped revert a dinosaur species to a more suitable classification. In an odd twist, the new classification is the same a... |
28 December 2009
08:46 GMT |
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