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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 -
Earliest Embryos Ever Discovered Provide Clues to Dinosaur Evolution
July 30, 2005 — The embryos of a long-necked, herbivorous dinosaur are the earliest ever recorded for any terrestrial vertebrate and point to how primitive dinosaurs evolved into the largest animals ever to walk on ... > full story -
Predatory Dinosaurs Had Bird-Like Pulmonary System
July 19, 2005 — What could the fierce dinosaur T. rex and a modern songbird such as the sparrow possibly have in common? Their pulmonary systems may have been more similar than scientists previously thought, ... > full story -
Geologists Find First Clue To Tyrannosaurus Rex Gender In Bone Tissue
June 2, 2005 — Paleontologists at North Carolina State University have determined that a 68 million year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil from Montana is that of a young female, and that she was producing eggs when she ... > full story -
First Ever Fossil Of Sleeping Dinosaur Found In China
May 22, 2005 — The first fossil of a sleeping non-avian dinosaur has been described by a pair of American Museum of Natural History paleontologists. The small bird-like dinosaur is preserved in a remarkable ... > full story -
Stegosaur Plates And Spikes For Looks Only, Researchers Say
May 17, 2005 — Every school kid marvels at the bizarre plates running down the backbone of the weird-looking Stegosaurus, but paleontologists still don't agree on what they're for. Four researchers now argue that ... > full story -
Utah Dinosaur Bones Reveal Missing Link In Evolution Of Diet
May 5, 2005 — Scientists have discovered a mass graveyard of bird-like feathered dinosaurs in Utah. The previously unknown species provides clues about how vicious meat-eaters related to Velociraptor ultimately ... > full story -
University Of Florida Discovery Raises Questions About Origin Of African Mammals
March 29, 2005 — "Into Africa" rather than "Out of Africa" could well be the better description of how certain mammals originated and spread across the world, according to a University of Florida ... > full story -
NC State Paleontologist Discovers Soft Tissue In Dinosaur Bones
March 25, 2005 — Conventional wisdom among paleontologists states that when dinosaurs died and became fossilized, soft tissues didn’t preserve – the bones were essentially transformed into ... > full story
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