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Why Do Dinosaur Skeletons Look So Weird?
February 16, 2012 Many fossilized dinosaurs have been found in a twisted posture. Scientists have long interpreted this as a sign of death spasms. Researchers have now come to the conclusion that these bizarre ... > full story -
Winged Dinosaur Archaeopteryx Dressed for Flight
January 24, 2012 The iconic, winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx was dressed for flight, an international team of researchers has concluded. The group identified the color of the raven-sized creature's fossilized wing ... > full story -
Ancient Dinosaur Nursery: Oldest Nesting Site Yet Found
January 23, 2012 An excavation at a site in South Africa has unearthed the 190-million-year-old dinosaur nesting site of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus -- revealing significant clues about the evolution of ... > full storyMore: -
Plant-Eating Dinosaur Discovered in Antarctica
December 19, 2011 For the first time, the presence of large bodied herbivorous dinosaurs in Antarctica has been recorded. Until now, remains of sauropoda had been recovered from all continental landmasses, except ... > full story -
Dinosaurs With Killer Claws Yield New Theory About Evolution of Flight
December 14, 2011 New research has revealed how dinosaurs like Velociraptor and Deinonychus used their famous killer claws, leading to a new hypothesis on the evolution of flight in ... > full story -
North America's Biggest Dinosaur Revealed
December 7, 2011 New research has unveiled enormous bones from North America's biggest dinosaur. Researchers collected two gigantic vertebrae and a femur in New Mexico. The bones belong to the sauropod dinosaur ... > full story -
New Horned Dinosaur Announced Nearly 100 Years After Discovery
December 6, 2011 A new species of horned dinosaur was just announced by an international team of scientists, nearly 100 years after the initial discovery of the fossil. The animal, named Spinops sternbergorum, lived ... > full story -
Madagascar Dinosaur Bone Is Most Massive Osteoderm Ever Found
November 29, 2011 What more can we learn about long-necked dinosaurs that we don't already know? Researchers have found that Madagascar dinosaurs carried giant, hollow bones in their skin that may have helped them ... > full storyMore: -
Large Nest of Juvenile Dinosaurs, First of Their Genus Ever Found
November 21, 2011 A nest containing the fossilized remains of 15 juvenile Protoceratops andrewsi dinosaurs from Mongolia has been described by a paleontologist, revealing new information about postnatal development ... > full story -
Super-Sized Muscle Made Twin-Horned Dinosaur a Speedster
October 14, 2011 A meat-eating dinosaur that terrorized its plant-eating neighbors in South America was a lot deadlier than first thought, a researcher has found. Carnotaurus was a seven-meter-long predator with a ... > full story
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