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Triple Fossil Find Puts Australia Back On The Dinosaur Map
Scientists have discovered
three new species of
Australian dinosaur
discovered in a prehistoric
billabong in Western
Queensland: two giant,
... > full story
Dino Tooth Sheds New Light On Ancient Riddle: Major Group Of Dinosaurs Had Unique Way Of Eating
Microscopic analysis of
scratches on dinosaur teeth
has helped scientists
unravel an ancient riddle of
what a major group of
... > full story
Latest In Technology Looks Into Some Old Bones
Many of us have broken bones
in our bodies at one time or
another, and when this
happens a healing process
begins. The same was true of
animals in the past, and has
... > full story
Dinosaurs May Have Been Smaller Than Previously Thought
The largest animals ever to
have walked the face of the
earth may not have been as
big as previously thought,
according to a new article. ... > full story
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Largest Carnivorous Dinosaur Tooth Ever Found In Spain
June 22, 2009 — Researchers have compared an Allosauroidea tooth found in deposits in Riodeva, Teruel, with other similar samples. The palaeontologists have concluded that this is the largest tooth of a carnivorous ... > full story -
Beaked, Bird-like Dinosaur Tells Story Of Finger Evolution
June 18, 2009 — Scientists have discovered a unique beaked, plant-eating dinosaur in China. The finding, they say, demonstrates that theropod, or bird-footed, dinosaurs were more ecologically diverse in the Jurassic ... > full story -
Sands Of Gobi Desert Yield New Species Of Nut-cracking Dinosaur
June 17, 2009 — Plants or meat: that's about all that fossils ever tell paleontologists about a dinosaur's diet. But the skull characteristics of a new species of parrot-beaked dinosaur and its associated gizzard ... > full story -
Discovery Raises New Doubts About Dinosaur-bird Links
June 9, 2009 — Researchers have made a fundamental new discovery about how birds breathe and have a lung capacity that allows for flight -- and the finding means it's unlikely that birds descended from any known ... > full story -
Competition May Have Led To New Dinosaur Species In Northwestern Alberta
May 15, 2009 — The discovery of a gruesome feeding frenzy that played out 73 million years ago in Northwestern Alberta may also lead to the discovery of new dinosaur species there. Paleontologists found a nesting ... > full story -
Dinosaur-Bird Link: Ancient Proteins Preserved In Soft Tissue From 80 Million-Year-Old Hadrosaur
May 1, 2009 — Ancient protein dating back 80 million years to the Cretaceous geologic period has been preserved in bone fragments and soft tissues of a hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur. The new findings support ... > full story -
Dynamite Used To Reveal New Layer Of Dinosaur Fossils
May 1, 2009 — What do you do when you have a fossil quarry that has yielded some of the most important and rarest of dinosaur fossils in North America, but the fossil-bearing layer of rock is tilted at 70 degrees ... > full story -
Evidence Of The 'Lost World': Did Dinosaurs Survive The End Cretaceous Extinctions?
April 30, 2009 — The idea of isolated communities of dinosaurs surviving the catastrophic extinction event 65 million years ago has stimulated a great deal of literary and cinematic drama. Today the fiction seems ... > full story -
Tyrannosaur 'Missing Link' Among New Dinosaurs From China
April 22, 2009 — A team of researchers from China and the US have excavated a treasure trove of dinosaur skeletons from Early Cretaceous rocks in the southern part of the Gobi Desert. Two of their discoveries ... > full story -
Prehistoric Turtle Goes To Hospital For CT Scan In Search For Skull, Eggs, Embryos
April 16, 2009 — Researchers recently took a 75-million-year-old turtle for a CT scan to look for its skull, additional eggs and possible ... > full story
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