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Mass Extinction's Cause: 'Sick Earth'
October 21, 2006 — The Permian-Triassic extinction is the largest recorded, more disastrous for life forms than the extinction that killed the dinosaurs. Its cause continues to be debated. USC earth scientists say ... > full story -
'Carnivorous' Coelophysis Dinosaur Fossil Re-Examined -- Last Meal Was Primitive Crocodile
October 2, 2006 — Four American Museum of Natural History paleontologists have overturned a 1950s claim that a theropod dinosaur called Coelophysis was a cannibal that ate juveniles of its own kind, forcing a revision ... > full story -
Ancient Birds Flew On All-Fours
September 22, 2006 — The earliest known ancestor of modern-day birds took to the skies by gliding from trees using primitive feathered wings on their arms and legs, according to new research by a University of Calgary ... > full story -
Paleontologists Find 67 Dinosaurs In One Week
September 14, 2006 — Teams of paleontologists from Montana and Mongolia unearthed 67 dinosaur skeletons in one week during this summer's field season in the Gobi Desert. The varied skeletons of the plant-eating ... > full story -
Good Times Ahead For Dinosaur Hunters, According To Dinosaur Census
September 4, 2006 — The golden age of dinosaur discovery is yet upon us, according to Peter Dodson at the University of Pennsylvania. Dodson revises his groundbreaking 1990 census on the diversity of discoverable ... > full story -
Tyrannosaur Survivorship -- Tough Times For Teens
July 13, 2006 — A massive dinosaur death bed in Alberta has helped map out the animal's life span and thrown doubt on long-held theories about how one species lived, says new research conducted in part at the ... > full story -
Paleontologists Establish First Age Distribution Of Non-Avian Dinosaur Population
July 13, 2006 — Did non-avian dinosaurs show survival patterns akin to extant living dinosaurs, the birds, as did their crocodilian cousins? Or, did they mirror that of more distantly related dinosaurs that lived in ... > full story -
Large Dinosaurs Were Extremely Hot In Their Day, Study Finds
July 12, 2006 — If you think dinosaurs are hot today, just think back to about 110 million years ago when they really ran hot and ... > full story -
Math And Fossils Resolve A Debate On Dinosaur Metabolism
July 11, 2006 — A model based on growth trajectories estimated from fossils provides evidence that dinosaurs were reptiles whose body temperatures increased systematically with increasing body size, according to a ... > full story -
Early Bird Caught The Fish: Fossils Depict Aquatic Origins Of Birds 115 Million Years Ago
June 15, 2006 — Five fossil specimens of a near-modern bird found in the Gansu Province of northwestern China show that early birds likely evolved in an aquatic environment. The findings suggest that Gansus ... > full story
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