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Insect Attack May Have Finished Off Dinosaurs
January 4, 2008 Asteroid impacts or massive volcanic flows might have occurred around the time dinosaurs became extinct, but a new argument is that the mightiest creatures the world has ever known may have been ... > full story -
Will Beetles Inherit The Earth? Evolutionary Study Reveals Their Long-term Success
December 26, 2007 Most modern-day groups of beetles have been around since the time of the dinosaurs and have been diversifying ever since, says new research in Science. Beetles have displayed an exceptional ability ... > full story -
Student Identifies Enormous New Dinosaur
December 17, 2007 The remains of one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs ever found have recently been recognized as representing a new species by a student working at the University of ... > full story -
Massive Dinosaur Discovered In Antarctica Sheds Light On Life, Distribution Of Sauropodomorphs
December 12, 2007 A new genus and species of dinosaur from the Jurassic has been discovered in Antarctica. The massive plant-eating primitive sauropodomorph is called Glacialisaurus hammeri and lived about 190 million ... > full story -
Dinosaur Mummy Found With Fossilized Skin And Soft Tissues
December 3, 2007 The amazing discovery of one of the finest and rarest dinosaur specimens ever unearthed -- a partially intact dino mummy found in the Hell Creek Formation Badlands of North Dakota was discovered by ... > full story -
Dinosaur Track Discovery In Australia
November 16, 2007 Fossil tracks belonging to large, carnivorous dinosaurs (Theropods) have been discovered near Inverloch by palaeontologists. It is the first time tracks of this kind have been found in Victoria. The ... > full story -
Dinosaur From Sahara Ate Like A 'Mesozoic Cow'
November 16, 2007 A 110-million-year-old dinosaur that had a mouth that worked like a vacuum cleaner, hundreds of tiny teeth and nearly translucent skull bones has been discovered. The dinosaur's oddest feature was a ... > full story -
Digging For Dinosaurs In Outback Australia
November 15, 2007 Outback Queensland has become the focus of an international research project that is helping to decipher the evolution of Australian dinosaurs and their relationships to those of other southern ... > full story -
Why Dinosaurs Had 'Fowl' Breath
November 7, 2007 Scientists have discovered how dinosaurs used to breathe in what provides clues to how they evolved and how they might have lived. Theropod dinosaurs like the Velociraptor had similar respiratory ... > full story -
Big Fossil 'Raptor' Tracks Show Group Behavior
October 29, 2007 Everyone knows that "raptor" dinosaurs walked with their deadly sickle-shaped foot claws held off the ground and that they moved in packs ... right? After all, it was in "Jurassic Park." But until ... > full story -
Carnivorous Dinosaur Tracks Discovered In Australia
October 22, 2007 The first fossil tracks belonging to large, carnivorous dinosaurs have been discovered in Victoria, Australia, by paleontologists. The tracks are especially significant for showing that large ... > full story -
Huge New Dinosaur Had A Serious Bite
October 3, 2007 The newest dinosaur species to emerge from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument had some serious bite, according to researchers. 'It was one of the most robust duck-billed dinosaurs ever,' ... > full story
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