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New Dinosaur Fossil Challenges Bird Flight Origins Theories
January 24, 2013 — The discovery of a new bird-like dinosaur from the Jurassic period challenges widely accepted theories on the origin of flight. A new paper describes a new feathered dinosaur about 30 centimeters in ... > full story -
More Small Meat-Eating Dinosaurs Than Thought
January 23, 2013 — Researchers used fossilized teeth to identify at least 23 species of small meat-eating ... > full story -
Sex of Early Birds Suggests Dinosaur Reproductive Style: New Way to Identify Gender of Ancient Avian Species
January 22, 2013 — Paleontologists have discovered a way to determine the sex of a prehistoric bird species. Confuciusornis sanctus, a 125-million-year-old Mesozoic bird, had remarkable differences in plumage -- some ... > full story -
Australia's Stampeding Dinosaurs Take a Dip: Largely Tracks of Swimming Rather Than Running Animals
January 8, 2013 — Queensland paleontologists have discovered that the world's only recorded dinosaur stampede is largely made up of the tracks of swimming rather than running ... > full story -
Jurassic Ecosystems Were Similar to Modern: Animals Flourish Among Lush Plants
January 8, 2013 — In modern ecosystems, animals flourish amid lush vegetation. That was true 150 million years ago too, says a new study by paleontologists. They applied ecological principles to geochemical data from ... > full story -
First Fossil Bird With Teeth Specialized for Tough Diet
January 7, 2013 — Beak shape variation in Darwin's finches is a classic example of evolutionary adaptation, with beaks that vary widely in proportions and shape, reflecting a diversity of ecologies. While living birds ... > full story -
Dinosaur Shook Tail Feathers for Mating Show
January 4, 2013 — A researcher's examination of fossilized dinosaur tail bones has led to a breakthrough finding: some feathered dinosaurs used tail plumage to attract mates, much like modern-day peacocks and ... > full story -
Inside the Head of a Dinosaur: Research Reveals New Information on the Evolution of Dinosaur Senses
December 19, 2012 — A new study of the brain anatomy of therizinosaurs, plant-eating dinosaurs that lived during the Cretaceous Period, has revealed interesting links with their notorious meat-eating 'cousins' ... > full story -
New Study Sheds Light on Dinosaur Size
December 19, 2012 — Dinosaurs were not only the largest animals to roam the Earth -- they also had a greater number of larger species compared to all other back-boned animals -- scientists suggest in a new ... > full story -
Was the Sauropod Dinosaurs' Large Size Due to Plant Food? Scientists Argue Old Idea Still Has Legs
December 11, 2012 — The long-necked sauropod dinosaurs were the largest land animals ever to walk the Earth -- but why were they so large? A decade ago, a team of plant ecologists from South Africa suggested that this ... > full story
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