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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
00:43 GMT |
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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
04:54 GMT |
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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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According to amounting body of pieces of evidence, it may be that dinosaurs that lived in the late Cretaceous period were venomous, packing the dangerous chemicals inside their fangs. This is especially true for the saber-toothed relatives of velociraptors, which are considered to be among the ancestors of modern bir... |
22 December 2009
02:50 GMT |
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The renowned New Mexico archaeological site known as Ghost Ranch has recently revealed a fossil that sheds some light on one of the most obscured periods in history, the time in the Triassic Age when the dinosaurs' evolution became clouded in mystery. The newly discovered animal, Tawa hallae, is one of the best ... |
11 December 2009
17:01 GMT |
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According to a new set of pieces of evidence, it may be that the asteroid that is thought to have hit our planet more than 65 million years ago, extinguishing most dinosaur species, did not cause widespread fires, as first thought. The data seems to suggest that the impact simply caused our planet's surface to b... |
8 December 2009
04:08 GMT |
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According to what evidence we have collected from the fossil record, dinosaurs ruled the land over what is now the Sahara desert more than 100 million years ago. But recent investigations have also revealed some of their companions, including an entire ensemble of crocodiles that seems to have accompanied the giant l... |
20 November 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Dinosaurs dominated the Earth, totally or partially, for at least 160 million years before the K-T (Cretaceous–Tertiary) extinction event, which saw the disappearance of the giant lizards. The earliest of these animals were small, two-legged creatures, but some of their predecessors grew to enormous sizes, and ... |
11 November 2009
18:31 GMT |
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Experts at the Southern Methodist University (SMU), in Dallas, have recently managed to electronically preserve a 110-million-year-old dinosaur footprint that was removed from its original location decades ago. The original tracks were excavated from their site, and taken to Texas, where they were built into a bandst... |
5 November 2009
06:11 GMT |
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Over the course of the planet's history, there have been five extinction events that scientists know of, and each and every single one of them may have been caused by nothing more than algae. The new idea was proposed by a scientist on October 19, at the annual Geological Society of America meeting. As expected,... |
30 October 2009
16:21 GMT |
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While digging at a site on the UK coasts, experts recently came across the bones of a pliosaur. While some may consider it just another dinosaur, for experts, it is one of the most important and amazing finds of the last few years. The aquatic animal was a monster, they say, one that would have made Tyrannosaurus Rex... |
27 October 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Establishing what killed the dinosaurs is not an easy thing to do, and many ideas and proposals exist to explain why, some 65 million years ago, more than half of the planet's species, dinosaurs included, vanished from the face of it. A large portion of the scientific community believes that a comet impact, at t... |
19 October 2009
02:46 GMT |
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Researchers in China and the United Kingdom have identified the first convincing set of pieces of evidence hinting at an unusual and controversial type of evolution, when they have discovered the remains of a peculiar flying lizard. The animal seems to have been in the habit of hunting other flying creatures during i... |
14 October 2009
18:11 GMT |
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An international team of scientists, consisting of members from the University of Michigan, in the US, the Universidad de Buenos Aires, in Argentina, and the Iziko South African Museum, in Cape Town, South Africa, has recently revealed new clues of how dinosaurs moved down slopes. Apparently, in spite of their massiv... |
7 October 2009
04:55 GMT |
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Despite being virtually everywhere, butterflies are some of the least understood creatures on the face of the planet, as far as their evolution goes. They come in a huge variety of shapes, sizes and species, and completely lack fossil evidence on which scientists could build theories. Thanks to a new study, experts n... |
6 October 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Researchers have recently discovered a new type of Tyrannosaur, one that was much smaller and graceful than its fearsome cousin Rex, while still being a vicious predator. The lizard sported some unusual features for a dinosaur, including a very long snout and a horn on its head. The find shed some light on T. Rex�... |
6 October 2009
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In a groundbreaking discovery that could potentially unlock the mystery surrounding the disappearance of dinosaurs, experts in India have uncovered an ancient dinosaur spawning ground, featuring hundreds of clusters of eggs. Initial estimates place the fossilized remains at about 65 million years in the past, althoug... |
2 October 2009
03:59 GMT |
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In 1990, the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, in South Dakota, provided the world with the most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil to date, a beautiful specimen named Sue. The remains went on to be sold for the highest sum ever paid for a dinosaur, and became a permanent exhibit at the Field Museum of Natural Histor... |
30 September 2009
03:13 GMT |
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Accord to leading paleontologists, a new, exceptionally preserved dinosaur fossil discovered in north-eastern China represents the earliest known feathered animal at this point. Estimated to have lived about 150 million years ago, the animal was petrified in mint condition, thus providing experts with the ability to ... |
25 September 2009
14:31 GMT |
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While dinosaurs as Tyrannosaurus Rex are often considered to have been among the most brutal giant lizards to have ever walked the land, investigations have revealed over the years that some herbivores were not that bad at surviving, or at tearing their opponents to pieces themselves. University of Alberta Department... |
26 August 2009
03:04 GMT |
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Paleontologists have recently managed to uncover a first-of-its-kind prehistoric "runway" for pterosaurs, the ancient, bird-like animals. The tracks, found at a location dubbed Pterosaur Beach, in southwestern France, are the first evidence to show how these animals landed, which is something that is apparently very ... |
19 August 2009
06:46 GMT |
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Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils are not exactly easy to come by, and nearly complete skeletons are even more uncommon. Only a few of these exist, but most of them miss a large number of bones. That is precisely why the collector community has saluted a recent decision, to put one of the largest and most complete T. Rex ske... |
19 August 2009
02:45 GMT |
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More than two years ago, a team of researchers dropped a bomb-news on the international scientific community – they had found intact proteins from a Tyrannosaurus Rex, one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs that ever lived. Critics naturally started jumping up and down, arguing that it was essentially impossi... |
1 August 2009
02:44 GMT |
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In an age when dinosaurs were still unheard of, animals living at the middle of the food chain had to adapt to being hunted down and killed by just about everyone else. And seeing how the largest and vicious predators owned the land, these animals turned to trees. The plants offered a rich source of food, and also pr... |
29 July 2009
02:46 GMT |
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Despite recent controversies on the actual sizes of dinosaurs, the fact that they were the largest animals to ever inhabit the Earth remains undisputed. Anthropologists and biologists have attempted to discover the reason why they grew so big for a long time, and also what factors favored such a large size, which was... |
7 July 2009
04:06 GMT |
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Life on Earth did not experience a “booming” start, with countless species appearing at once, but rather gradually, with nature trying and failing several times over before finally coming up with viable organisms. Such was the case with the first creatures who got out of the seas, and attempted to walk on... |
7 July 2009
03:44 GMT |
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Never underestimate the power of sediments, anthropologists always say, as they can save valuable details over millions of years. And few are the circumstances in which they were more right. In their study of the fossilized remains of a duck-billed hadrosaur family specimen, they noticed cell-like structures imprinte... |
1 July 2009
10:12 GMT |
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New measurements and estimates of how dinosaurs looked like show that the largest animals in history may have not been as large as researchers first made them to be. Biologists from the George Mason University, in Virginia, led by Geoffrey Birchard, devised a new equation of calculating dinosaurs' weight based s... |
22 June 2009
05:59 GMT |
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Anthropologists and biologists have long hypothesized that birds are the modern descendants of dinosaurs, which evolved and developed flight capabilities as an adaptation to their surrounding, or as a form of defense. However, a major gap in the theory was, until now, the fact that archaeological digs failed to uncov... |
18 June 2009
04:11 GMT |
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According to the most recent scientific investigations into the bone structure of sauropod dinosaurs, a class that includes the brontosaur, the prehistoric animals did not bear their heads on an axis parallel to the ground, like depicted in many fossil arrangements or movies. They actually seem to have preferred hold... |
27 May 2009
10:40 GMT |
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According to the results of two years' worth of excellent archeology, experts can now argue that a newly discovered “pocket of life” in Northwestern Alberta, Canada, is a missing link between species that lived further to the North, and others that lived elsewhere in what is now the country. Many fos... |
15 May 2009
05:54 GMT |
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Growing evidence that has been accumulated over the past few years seems to sink the asteroid explanation for the disappearance of the dinosaurs more and more underground. Indeed, according to the latest data, it would appear that either a multitude of factors, including a meteorite impact, or a single event – ... |
5 May 2009
05:59 GMT |
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According to a new set of scientific investigations carried out at the site of the Chicxulub crater, in the northern Yucatan Peninsula, New Mexico, the asteroid that hit our planet more than 65 million years ago was not the reason for the extinction of dinosaurs and about 65 percent of all other species on Earth. The... |
27 April 2009
02:52 GMT |
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Whenever paleontologists and archaeologists find a complete skeleton of an extinct beast, or the fossilized remains of an entire dinosaur, they are able to reduce the large mystery surrounding these animals by a tiny fraction. But all these discoveries, all the digging and the effort amounts to very little, if resear... |
16 April 2009
14:11 GMT |
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The UNESCO World Heritage Site Burgess Shale, in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, is home to one of the greatest sources of fossils from the Cambrian Age. Complex and well-preserved remains are constantly excavated from this location, and one of the digs seems now to hold a big surprise for its discoverers. ... |
20 March 2009
04:40 GMT |
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This August, the O2 Arena in London will be the host of a revolutionary exhibition, dubbed Walking With Dinosaurs. The manifestation will feature 15 of the beasts, all of them operated by animatronic devices, as well as by master puppeteers. The show is meant to give visitors a glimpse of how the real creatures may h... |
19 March 2009
05:55 GMT |
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A newly discovered dinosaur fossil seems to change a paradigm that has been in effect for several decades, and namely that only the saurischian dinosaur families had feathers or other feather-like formations on their bodies. The heterodontosaurs that was found in China was herbivorous, and was part of a completely di... |
19 March 2009
05:11 GMT |
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The remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard has been home to one of the most disturbing archaeological finds in years, and namely that of a super-sized marine hunter, dubbed Predator X. And scientists haven't called it super-sized for nothing, as its skull is about twice as large as that of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Th... |
18 March 2009
05:49 GMT |
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A new scientific report, published in the Tuesday issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), details a new species of dinosaurs that lived more than 75 million years ago. The creature is very similar to the velociraptor dinosaurs that can be seen in the “Jurassic Park” mo... |
17 March 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Archaeologists and other researchers from China and the US are currently working together to uncover a mass grave, dating back more than 90 million years ago, which contains the remains of a large dinosaur group that got trapped in mud on the banks of a freshwater lake in the Gobi desert, Inner Mongolia. Nearly all o... |
16 March 2009
07:44 GMT |
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It's widely accepted in the scientific community that a massive extinction event took place on Earth between the Permian and the Triassic periods, wiping up almost 90 percent of both marine and land species and driving the ancestors of dinosaurs to the brink of extinction. Now, a team of researchers is seeking t... |
3 March 2009
09:40 GMT |
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Over the years, researchers trying to get an estimate of how much dinosaurs weighed have always come across the same obstacle, and namely the fact that the beasts have been dead for about 65 million years. Up to this point, no suitable instrument has been available for such measurements, but now experts have invented... |
25 February 2009
01:55 GMT |
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Henry is a tuatara that has been living in captivity since 1970, at the Southland Museum, in the New Zealand city of Invercargill. It's currently known that he is 111 years old, and yet, this is the first batch of eggs he's fathered in his life. Although his caretakers have no way of knowing what the very r... |
26 January 2009
08:26 GMT |
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The eastern Chinese province of Shandong is home to the world's largest mass dinosaur grave, as proven by the unbelievable number of fossils that have thus far been unearthed in more than 30 locations around the site. According to local authorities, more than 7,600 remains have been recovered from their rocky to... |
30 December 2008
06:09 GMT |
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Though Tyrannosaurus Rex has been thoroughly studied for several years, very little was known about the way in which it used its sense of smell in "action." While some anthropologists claimed that the small size of the dinosaur's brain was clearly an obstacle in the way of the creature processing too much smell-... |
29 October 2008
07:59 GMT |
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