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Next Good Dinosaur News Likely To Come From Small Packages
February 20, 2006 Dinosaurs seem bigger than life -- big bones, big mysteries. So it's a delicious irony that the next big answers about dinosaurs may come from small -- very small -- remains. "Molecules are fossils, ... > full story -
Scientists Discover Skeletons Of The Oldest Tyrannosaur
February 9, 2006 A team of scientists at The George Washington University and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing have discovered a new genus and species of dinosaur that is the ... > full story -
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
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