Save
Email
Print
Share
RSSBrowse News Stories
331 to 340 of 416 stories
view headlines only
-
Duck-Billed Dino Crests Not Linked To Sense Of Smell
January 31, 2006 — After decades of debate, a U of T researcher has finally determined that duck-billed dinosaurs' massive but hollow crests had nothing to do with what many scientists suspected -- the sense of smell. ... > full story -
Unexpected Finding: Some Dinosaurs Grew Slower In Hard Times
December 19, 2005 — Palaeontologists from the University of Bonn report on an intriguing diagnosis in the 16 December issue of the journal Science. A dinosaur which they have examined was apparently able to vary the ... > full story -
Missing Fossil Link 'Dallasaurus' Found
November 16, 2005 — When amateur fossil finder Van Turner discovered a small vertebra at a construction site near Dallas 17 years ago, he knew the creature was unlike anything in the fossil record. Scientists now know ... > full story -
Taking A Bite Out Of The Problem: Researchers Devise Dinosaur Classification Method
November 10, 2005 — Josh Smith, PhD, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has concocted a mathematical scheme for identifying dinosaurs based upon measurements of ... > full story -
Wright Brothers Upstaged! Dinos Invented Biplanes
October 18, 2005 — The evolution of airplanes from the Wright Brothers' first biplanes to monoplanes was an inadvertent replay of the much earlier evolution of dinosaur flight, say two dino flight experts. According to ... > full story -
U. Of Colorado Researcher Identifies Tracks Of Swimming Dinosaur In Wyoming
October 18, 2005 — The tracks of a previously unknown, two-legged swimming dinosaur have been identified along the shoreline of an ancient inland sea that covered Wyoming 165 million years ago, according to a ... > full story -
Newly Discovered Birdlike Dinosaur Is Oldest Raptor Ever Found In South America
October 13, 2005 — A 90-million-year-old dinosaur recently discovered in Patagonia demonstrates that dromaeosaurs, carnivorous theropods that include Velociraptor, originated much earlier than previously thought. They ... > full story -
Scientists Say No Evidence Exists That Therapod Dinosaurs Evolved Into Birds
October 10, 2005 — No good evidence exists that fossilized structures found in China and which some paleontologists claim are the earliest known rudimentary feathers were really feathers at all, a renowned ... > full story -
Oxygen Increase Caused Mammals To Triumph, Researchers Say
October 3, 2005 — The first, high resolution continuous record of oxygen concentration in the earth's atmosphere shows that a sharp rise in oxygen about 50 million years ago gave mammals the evolutionary boost they ... > full story -
Skull Study Sheds Light On Dinosaur Diversity
September 16, 2005 — With their long necks and tails, sauropod dinosaurs -- famous as the Sinclair gasoline logo and Fred Flintstone's gravel pit tractor -- are easy to recognize, in part because they all seem to look ... > full story
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 137,101
more 
