Fossilized footprints reveal a clumsy dinosaur
Crossing the riverbed of Carrizo Creek in Oklahoma, a series of tracks made by a two-legged dinosaur have been preserved ...
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Oldest dinosaur embryos found in China
Bones from Lufengosaurus embryos (like this femur shown in cross-section) have yielded new information about dinosaur development. Paleontologists have discovered ...
Evidence found that dinosaurs could swim through coordinated leg movement
A University of Alberta researcher has identified some of the strongest evidence ever found that dinosaurs could paddle long distances. ...
Dinosaur wipeout caused by comet, not asteroid – new study finds
The current leading theory that explains the mass extinction of the dinosaurs - once the dominant group of animals on ...
Ancient volcanic eruptions caused mass extinction 200 million years ago
Some 200 million years ago half of all life on Earth went extinct, thus providing a window of opportunity for ...
Hundreds of dinosaur eggs found in Spain hints to common nesting ground
(c) Miquel Crusafont Catalan Palaeontology Institute Paleontologists were stoked by the discovery of hundreds of fossilized dinosaur eggs, belonging to ...
Ancient bird species had four wings
Images of fossils belonging to the enantiornithine genus. Feathers on the primitive bird's hind legs provide evidence of an extra ...
Modern birds evolved from gliding dinosaurs
Artist impression of Archaeopteryx lithographica by Carl Buell Today's birds' ancestors descended from non-avian dinosaurs according to a recent paper ...
Dinosaurs were a lot lighter than previously thought. Study might change the way we’ve envisioned dinosaurs thus far
A team of international scientists from Britain and the United States have devised a new mathematical formula, considered more accurate than previous methods, ...
Dinosaurs were plagued by giant fleas ten times bigger than today and a lot meaner
During the tumultuous Cretaceous and Jurassic periods if you could only choose one word to describe the world, it would've certainly be ...
T. Rex relative had an extensive plumage – biggest feathered dinosaur ever found
A remarkable paleontological discovery surfaced from China recently, after scientists reported they've found fossils belonging to the Yutyrannus huali,a very close ...
Two new, small horned dinosaurs discovered
Paleontologists have recently named two new horned dinosaur species, closely related to the famous Triceratops, which were dug up from a ...
T. Rex’s bite was the strongest ever of any terrestrial being
Although the T. rex isn't the largest carnivorous dinosaur to have roamed Earth, a new study that used computer models ...
Paleontology 2.0: 3-D printed dinosaur skeletons turned into robots
Scientists at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania have set on a path that promises to revolutionize the way paleontology is studied, and ...
Jurassic Park comes to life in New Jersey. Robot-dinos!
New Jersey will soon be home to the closest thing to Jurassic Park so far, after yesterday the only press ...
Large dinosaurs used to migrate across vast distances
The art of science is most evident when one manages to accurately assert truths about a given fact with little ...
NASA maps 93% of all near-Earth asteroids. In other news, Dinosaurs wish they had science.
Armageddon can wait, NASA's in charge for a little while longer. The space agency recently released to the general public ...
New dinosaur extinction theory: an ocean of lava
It wasn't just a devastating asteroid that killed off all the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Scientists from Boston University ...
Oldest bird might not be a bird in the first place
In a paper published in the journal Nature, Chinese paleontologists have detailed their impressions on the finding of a chicken-sized ...
200 million years ago, half of all life on Earth went extint from a methane eruption
Around 200 million years ago, the Earth was still one big continent - the great Pangaea. Around that time came, ...
Ancient wasps used to grow inside rotting dinosaur eggs
A recent discovery made by Argentinian paleontologist uncovered wasp cocoons hidden inside the 70 million year old fossilized egg of ...
Dinosaurs were as warm blooded as today’s mammals
Were dinosaurs slow and lazy, as you see most reptiles today, or active and quick like you see them in ...
A third of Texans believe humans lived side by side with dinosaurs… and other stuff
I recently came across this poll, which was conducted about a year ago. Ok, so it's not extremely actual, but ...
Remarkable Archeological Find: World’s Oldest Dinosaur Embryo
In a remarkable discovery, reported Friday in the journal Science by a team of paleontologists headed by Robert Reisz of ...
Mammals, half way extinct??
The previous 5 mass extinctions wiped out more than three quarters of the world's animals, and if things continue to ...
Missing flying reptile link found
An international team of researchers from the University of Leicester (UK), and the Geological Institute, Beijing (China) managed to identify ...
Life had a big rebound following marine mass extinction event
In 1980, Luis Alvarez and his team shocked the whole world when they announced their theory that an asteroid impact ...
Prehistoric snake shows what the word “gigantic” was created for
And when I say that snake was big that’s how it was- really BIG. It had the length of a ...
9 Dinosaurs that marked the planet
How the dinosaurs appeared is clear, but it's not so clear how they dissapeared. One thing's for sure, they ruled ...
Scientists discover ‘world’s first bird’, and compare it to another
Archaeopteryx has been the subject of many controversies, but it is now widely considered as the world's oldest bird; however, ...
Origin of birds still debated
Birds evolved from lizards, (nearly) all scientists agree about that, but strangely enough there is still a debate around when ...
Volcanic Eruptions, Not Meteor, May Have Killed The Dinosaurs
This debate has been indecided for years and years and there are serious evidence which backs up both theories. Recently ...
