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Dinosaur tracks to be protected
Dinosaur footprints discovered in Oxfordshire mudflats are to be protected as part of a geological conservation site
Dino extinction brought birds back to earth
Without predation and competition from larger dinosaurs, some species of bird were able to shed the limitations flight imposes on body size and weight to evolve into the species of the order Struthioniformes, which includes ostriches, emus, cassowaries and kiwis
Dinosaur exhibit opens at Virginia Museum of Natural History during 4th annual Dino Day festival
Life-size casts of dinosaurs dominate the exhibit, which includes a 40-foot long skeleton cast of an Acrocanthosaurus, a massive carnivorous theropod dinosaur that existed in what is now North America during the early Cretaceous period, between 125 million and 100 million years ago
Digging Into the Dinosaur 'Death Pits'
Mysterious "death pits" holding the fossil skeletons of nearly two dozen small dinosaur species may actually be the 160-million-year-old footprints of an ancient behemoth, a new study suggests
From Paleontology, to Technology, to Pet – a Labor of Love
The pattern was taken from a fossilized piece of skin, but no one knows if a camarasaurus was really green, nor if its eyes were brilliant blue like Pleo’s
Scientists discover T. rex ancestor
Researchers from Germany and the UK have rediscovered a fossil skull in the collections of the Natural History Museum London, thus unlocking the mystery behind the evolutionary history of the dinosaurs belonging to the Tyrannosauridae family
Dressing up dinos
Scientists are increasingly turning to new techniques to make up for the dearth of soft tissues preserved in the fossil record
Alligators breathe like birds due to shared dinosaur ancestor
The breathing method is believed to have first appeared in ancient reptiles called archosaurs which dominated the Earth 251 million years ago
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The Open Dinosaur Project
Founded to involve scientists and the public alike in developing a comprehensive database of dinosaur limb bone measurements, to investigate questions of dinosaur function and evolution
Not Dinos But - Ancient Sea Creature Unveiled
The Tylosaurus was a sea creature that lived in Nebraska and surrounding areas, and was considered to be as mighty as the T-Rex
190m-yr-old dino fossils found in Argentina
The experts discovered on Bayo mountain, some 80 km from the Patagonian town of Gastre, fossils of at least two dinosaurs that apparently lived during the Jurassic period and about which little is known
Dinosaur blockbuster sorts out truth from fiction
If you're wondering how the extinction of the giant beasts occurred - by climate change and/or a meteor strike, among other theories - this interactive exhibition from the American Museum of Natural History in New York will give you and the kids something to ponder
Korean dinosaur photo book hits shelves
The publication by the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, a state-run preservation agency, follows a series of landmark discoveries in the country last year, including the fossil of a horned dinosaur that scientists say is an unknown species, and footprints of a baby dinosaur that are the smallest of their kind found so far
Other Fossil news - Mystery of World's Biggest Beasts Possibly Solved
The origins of the largest animals in the world, the baleen whales, might be rooted in the mud, which they potentially sucked up like vacuum cleaners, analysis of a bizarre extinct dwarf whale now suggests
Tiny Dinosaur Creates Paleontology Puzzle
Knoll, a paleobiologist at Spain's National Museum of Natural Sciences, and his team analyzed the bone tissues of both small and large fabrosaurid individuals
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