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'Earth Claw': New Species of Vegetarian Dinosaur Close to Common Ancestor of Gigantic Sauropods
A new species of dinosaur
from the early Jurassic
period, approximately 195
million years old, has been
discovered in South Africa.
... > full story
Warm-Blooded Dinosaurs Worked Up A Sweat
Were dinosaurs
"warm-blooded" like
present-day mammals and
birds, or "cold-blooded"
like present day lizards?
The implications of this
simple-sounding question go
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'Duck-Billed' Dinosaurs: Last European Hadrosaurs Lived In Iberian Peninsula
Spanish researchers have
studied the fossil record of
hadrosaurs, the so-called
"duck-billed" dinosaurs, in
the Iberian Peninsula for
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Portable 3-D Laser Technology Preserves Texas Dinosaur's Rare Footprint
Using portable 3-D laser
technology, scientists have
electronically preserved a
rare 110 million-year-old
fossilized dinosaur
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Earliest Tyrannosauroid Rediscovered
November 4, 2009 — A long forgotten fossil skull in the collections of the Natural History Museum in London has now provided crucial clues to the early stages of the lengthy evolutionary history of Tyrannosaurus rex ... > full story -
Terrible Teens Of T. Rex: Young Tyrannosaurs Did Serious Battle Against Each Other
November 2, 2009 — Teenage tyrannosaurs got into some serious fights with their peers. The evidence can be found on Jane, a prized juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex, discovered in 2001 in Montana. The dinosaur's fossils show ... > full story -
Newly Discovered Ankylosaur Dinosaur Is 'Biological Version Of An Army Tank'
November 1, 2009 — Paleontologists have discovered a new species of dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago during the early Cretaceous of central Montana. The new dinosaur, a species of ankylosaur is the biological ... > full story -
New Analyses Of Dinosaur Growth May Wipe Out One-Third Of Species
October 31, 2009 — Paleontologists Mark Goodwin and Jack Horner have dug for 11 years in Montana's Hell Creek Formation in search of every dinosaur fossil they can find, accumulating specimens of all stages of ... > full story -
Crushed Bones Reveal Literal Dino Stomping Ground
October 14, 2009 — A rich dinosaur quarry near Moab, Utah, has one little problem: nearly all the bones are broken. Researchers pieced together what happened and concluded in a new study that the heap of carcasses was ... > full story -
Archaeopteryx Was Not Very Bird-Like: Inside The First Bird, Surprising Signs Of A Dinosaur
October 9, 2009 — The raptor-like Archaeopteryx has long been viewed as the archetypal first bird, but new research reveals that it was actually a lot less "bird-like" than scientists had ... > full story -
Trackway Analysis Shows How Dinosaurs Coped With Slippery Slopes
October 8, 2009 — A new investigation of a fossilized tracksite in southern Africa shows how early dinosaurs made on-the-fly adjustments to their movements to cope with slippery and sloping terrain. Differences in how ... > full story -
Rare Evidence Of Dinosaur Cannibalism: Meat-Eater Tooth Found In Gorgosaurus Jawbone
October 7, 2009 — A Canadian researcher has found 70 million year old evidence of dinosaur cannibalism. The jawbone of what appears to be a Gorgosaurus was found in 1996 in southern Alberta. A technician at the Royal ... > full story -
Bizarre New Horned Tyrannosaur From Asia: Carnivorous But Smaller T. Rex Relative 'Like Ballerina'
October 5, 2009 — Just a few weeks after tiny, early Raptorex kriegsteini was unveiled, a new wrench has been thrown into the family tree of the tyrannosaurs. The new Alioramus altai -- a horned, long-snouted, gracile ... > full story -
Was Mighty T. Rex 'Sue' Felled By A Lowly Parasite?
September 30, 2009 — When pondering the demise of a famous dinosaur such as 'Sue,' the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex whose fossilized remains are a star attraction of the Field Museum in Chicago, it is hard to avoid the image ... > full story
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