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Using Discards, Scientists Discover Different Dinosaurs' Stomping Grounds
October 14, 2010 By examining the type of rock in which dinosaur fossils were embedded, an often unappreciated part of the remains, scientists have determined that different species of North American dinosaurs from ... > full story -
One of France's Largest Dinosaur Fossil Deposits Found in the Charente Region
October 13, 2010 The first excavations at the Audoin quarries in the town of Angeac, in the Charente region of south-western France, have confirmed that the site is one of the richest dinosaur fossil deposits in the ... > full story -
Oldest Evidence of Dinosaurs in Footprints: Dinosaur Lineage Emerged Soon After Massive Permian Extinction
October 6, 2010 Scientists have found the oldest evidence of the dinosaur lineage -- fossilized tracks. Just one or two million years after the massive Permian-Triassic extinction, an animal smaller than a house cat ... > full story -
New Fossil Suggests Dinosaurs Not So Fierce After All
October 6, 2010 A new species of dinosaur discovered in Arizona suggests dinosaurs did not spread throughout the world by overpowering other species, but by taking advantage of a natural catastrophe that wiped out ... > full story -
Dinosaurs Significantly Taller Than Previously Thought, Research Suggests
September 30, 2010 It might seem obvious that a dinosaur's leg bone connects to the hip bone, but what came between the bones has been less obvious. Now, researchers have found that dinosaurs had thick layers of ... > full story -
Amazing Horned Dinosaurs Unearthed on 'Lost Continent'; New Discoveries Include Bizarre Beast With 15 Horns
September 22, 2010 Discovery of two new horned dinosaurs in southern Utah are part of an entirely new assemblage of dinosaurs found in the Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument, and which confirm that dinosaurs living in ... > full story -
Tyrannosaurus Redux: T. Rex Was More Than Just a Large Carnivore at Top of Food Chain, New Findings Reveal
September 16, 2010 A new research paper highlights recent tyrannosaur discoveries and complex analyses of the biology of certain species. The paper includes a new family tree for T. rex and its ... > full story -
Evolution Rewritten, Again and Again
August 31, 2010 Palaeontologists are forever claiming that their latest fossil discovery will "rewrite evolutionary history." Is this just boasting or does our "knowledge" of evolution radically change every time we ... > full story -
'Stocky Dragon' Dinosaur, Relative of Velociraptor, Terrorized Late Cretaceous Europe
August 30, 2010 Paleontologists have discovered that a close relative of Velociraptor hunted the dwarfed inhabitants of Late Cretaceous Europe, an island landscape largely isolated from nearby continents. While ... > full story -
Fires and Floods Key to Dinosaur Island Secrets
August 24, 2010 Fires and floods which raged across the Isle of Wight some 130 million years ago made the island the richest source of pick ’n’ mix dinosaur remains of this age anywhere in the world. A ... > full story
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