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
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For many years, scientists have been debating within the international community as to whether the largest animals to have ever lived on land kept their heads held high or not. Sauropods were a special type of dinosaurs, a group that included Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, and Apatosaurus. These enormous creatures were o... |
2 June 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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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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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
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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
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Latest paleontology studies showed that, in all likelihood, dinosaurs from the sauropod class were incapable of chewing their food before swallowing it, as evidenced by their long neck, which would have been too frail to sustain the massive weight of a head full of teeth. In fact, the skull was the lightest part of t... |
10 October 2008
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