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Discovery Raises New Doubts About Dinosaur-Bird Links
June 9, 2009 — Researchers have made a fundamental new discovery about how birds breathe and have a lung capacity that allows for flight -- and the finding means it's unlikely that birds descended from any known ... > full story -
CPR: More Compressions, Fewer Interruptions Lead To Higher Cardiac Arrest Survival
May 4, 2009 — Survival rates for sudden cardiac arrest patients increased when professional rescuers focused on minimizing interruptions to chest compressions during CPR. Compression rate was increased to 50 ... > full story -
Dinosaur-Bird Link: Ancient Proteins Preserved In Soft Tissue From 80 Million-Year-Old Hadrosaur
April 30, 2009 — Ancient protein dating back 80 million years to the Cretaceous geologic period has been preserved in bone fragments and soft tissues of a hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur. The new findings support ... > full story -
Dynamite Used To Reveal New Layer Of Dinosaur Fossils
April 29, 2009 — What do you do when you have a fossil quarry that has yielded some of the most important and rarest of dinosaur fossils in North America, but the fossil-bearing layer of rock is tilted at 70 degrees ... > full story -
Tyrannosaur 'Missing Link' Among New Dinosaurs From China
April 22, 2009 — A team of researchers from China and the US have excavated a treasure trove of dinosaur skeletons from Early Cretaceous rocks in the southern part of the Gobi Desert. Two of their discoveries ... > full story -
Mini Dinosaurs Prowled North America
March 16, 2009 — Massive predators like Albertosaurus and Tyrannosaurus Rex may have been at the top of the food chain, but they were not the only meat-eating dinosaurs to roam North America, according to Canadian ... > full story -
How Fat or Fit Were Dinosaurs? Scientists Use Laser Imaging
February 20, 2009 — Scientists used laser imaging to investigate how fat -- or fit -- T. rex and his fellow dinosaurs were. Researchers found that a small T. rex could have weighed anywhere between 5.5 and 7 tonnes, ... > full story -
At 2,500 Pounds And 43 Feet, Prehistoric Snake Is Largest On Record
February 4, 2009 — The largest snake the world has ever known -- as long as a school bus and as heavy as a small car -- ruled tropical ecosystems only 6 million years after the demise of the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex, ... > full story -
Dinosaur Fossils Fit Perfectly Into The Evolutionary Tree Of Life, Study Finds
January 26, 2009 — A recent study by researchers in England has found that scientists' knowledge of the evolution of dinosaurs is remarkably ... > full story -
Evolution: Life On Earth Got Bigger In 2-Million-Fold Leaps
December 22, 2008 — Earth's creatures come in all sizes, yet they (and we) all sprang from the same single-celled organisms that first populated the planet. So how on Earth did life go from bacteria to the blue whale? ... > full story
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