Browse News Stories
301 to 310 of 416 stories
view headlines only
-
Jurassic Crocodile Is Unearthed From Blue Mountains In Eastern Oregon
March 19, 2007 An ancient sea-going crocodile has surfaced from the rocks of Crook County in eastern Oregon. It's discovery by the North American Research Group (NARG), whose members were digging for Jurassic-age ... > full story -
Despite Their Heft, Many Dinosaurs Had Surprisingly Tiny Genomes
March 7, 2007 They might be giants, but many dinosaurs apparently had genomes no larger than that of a modern hummingbird. So say scientists who've linked bone cell and genome size among living species and then ... > full story -
Scientist Discovers New Horned Dinosaur Genus
March 4, 2007 A scientist at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History has announced the discovery of a new horned dinosaur, named Albertaceratops nesmoi, approximately 20 feet long and weighing nearly one half ton, ... > full story -
Giant Sauropod Dinosaur Found In Spain
December 22, 2006 Fossils of a giant Sauropod, found in Teruel Spain, reveal that Europe was home to giant dinosaurs in the Late Jurassic period -- about 150 million years ago. Giant dinosaurs have previously been ... > full story -
Dinosaurs: Stones Did Not Help With Digestion
December 20, 2006 The giant dinosaurs had a problem. Many of them had narrow, pointed teeth, which were more suited to tearing off plants rather than chewing them. But how did they then grind their food? Until ... > full story -
Spectacular Dinosaur Skull Comes Back To Alberta
November 8, 2006 A "spectacular beast" is coming back to its original stomping grounds and making a new home at the University of Alberta -- a coup that will allow its researchers to study the rare dinosaur skull up ... > full story -
Trotting With Emus To Walk With Dinosaurs
October 25, 2006 One way to make sense of 165-million-year-old dino tracks may be to hang out with emus, say paleontologists studying thousands of dinosaur footprints at the Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite in northern ... > full story -
Steep Oxygen Decline Halted First Land Colonization By Earth's Sea Creatures
October 23, 2006 New research suggests a multimillion year gap in the colonization of Earth's land by marine creatures might have been caused by a sharp drop in atmospheric ... > full story -
Evidence Of Gut Parasite Found In Dinosaur
October 23, 2006 University of Colorado at Boulder researchers have discovered what appears to be the first evidence of parasites in the gut contents of a dinosaur, indicating even the giants that roamed Earth 75 ... > full story -
Far More Than A Meteor Killed Dinos, Evidence Suggests
October 23, 2006 There's growing evidence that the dinosaurs and most their contemporaries were not wiped out by the famed Chicxulub meteor impact, according to a paleontologist who says multiple meteor impacts, ... > full story
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 137,306

