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New Species Clarifies Bird-Dinosaur Link
February 14, 2002 The discovery and analysis of an early carnivorous dinosaur, Sinovenator changii, are clarifying the evolutionary relationship between dinosaurs and birds, according to a paper to be published in ... > full story -
Alligators On A Treadmill Hint How Dinosaurs Breathed; Rotating Bone In Pelvis Helps Gators Walk And Breathe Simultaneously
November 19, 2001 University of Utah biologists trained alligators to walk on a treadmill during studies that revealed new clues about how dinosaurs breathed. The researchers discovered that alligators, unlike ... > full story -
Student Discovers Well-Preserved Embryo In Dinosaur Egg
October 16, 2001 A North Carolina State University graduate student has discovered that a dinosaur egg unearthed more than 30 years ago in Alabama contains well-preserved and incredibly detailed remains of a nearly ... > full story -
Dinosaurs' Large Noses May Have Been Key To Physiological Processes
August 3, 2001 With only bones for clues, scientists continue to puzzle over many details of dinosaur appearances and physiology. Detective work by a paleontologist at Ohio University now indicates that the ... > full story -
New Long-Necked Dinosaur Discovered In Madagascar
August 2, 2001 The fossilized remains of a new, nearly complete long-necked sauropod dinosaur were recently unearthed on the island of Madagascar. The discovery was announced today in the journal Nature by National ... > full story -
Dinosaurs Grew Rapidly, Say Florida State University Researchers
July 30, 2001 Dinosaurs grew more rapidly than their living reptilian relatives asserts FSU evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Gregory Erickson in an article to be published Thursday in Nature magazine. ... > full story -
Discovery Of "Tidal Giant" -- A New Egyptian Dinosaur -- Reported In Science
June 1, 2001 The partial skeleton of a massive sauropod dinosaur, unearthed at an Egyptian site that its discoverers call "dinosaur heaven," makes its debut in the 1 June issue of the international ... > full story -
Researchers Discover Fossil Of Tiny Mammal From Early Jurassic; Discovery Provides Important New Evidence On The Earliest Evolution Of Mammals
May 25, 2001 An international team of researchers led by Carnegie Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Paleontologist Dr. Zhe-Xi Luo has discovered a 195-million-year-old fossil mammal. The new mammal is the ... > full story -
Collapse Of Simple Life Forms Linked To Mass Extinction 200 Million Years Ago
May 11, 2001 A mass extinction about 200 million years ago, which destroyed at least half of the species on Earth, happened very quickly and is demonstrated in the fossil record by the collapse of one-celled ... > full story -
First Dinosaur Found With Its Body Covering Intact; Displays Primitive Feathers From Head To Toe
April 27, 2001 A team of Chinese and American scientists announced today in Nature the discovery of a remarkably preserved, 130-million-year-old fossil dinosaur covered from head to tail with downy fluff and ... > full story
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