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How Did Dinosaurs Evolve Into Birds?
Comparison between the air sacs of Majungasaurus and a bird (duck) Tohoku University researchers and their international collaborators have identified a possible genetic mechanism underlying the evolution of birds, according to a recently published study in Nature Communications. Studies of … Continue reading
Rare tooth find reveals horned dinosaurs in eastern North America
A chance discovery in Mississippi provides the first evidence of an animal closely related to Triceratops in eastern North America. The fossil, a tooth from rocks between 68 and 66 million years old, shows that two halves of the continent … Continue reading
Dinosaurs footprints on the Isle of Skye, Scotland
If you think of dinosaur hunting, you probably imagine trekking through a parched landscape, reaching the crest of a low hill and catching the first glimpse of a complete skeleton lying half exposed in the next depression. While this might … Continue reading
Antibiotic-resistant microbes date back to 450 million years ago, well before the age of dinosaurs
Leading hospital ‘superbugs,’ known as the enterococci, arose from an ancestor that dates back 450 million years — about the time when animals were first crawling onto land (and well before the age of dinosaurs), according to a new study. … Continue reading
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New species of dinosaur increases the already unexpected diversity of ‘whiplash dinosaurs’
A new sauropod species has been named Galeamopus pabsti by the same team which recently reinstated the brontosaurus as a distinct genus. Paleontology News — ScienceDaily
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New species of dinosaur increases the already unexpected diversity of ‘whiplash dinosaurs’
A new sauropod species has been named Galeamopus pabsti by the same team which recently reinstated the brontosaurus as a distinct genus. Strange & Offbeat: Fossils & Ruins News — ScienceDaily
Palaeontologist reconstructs feathered dinosaurs in the flesh
Until now it has been hard to get an accurate idea of the shape of a dinosaur from its fossilized remains, as only their bones are usually preserved. Using a new technique, palaeontologists have reconstructed the first highly detailed body … Continue reading
New indications of gradual decline of dinosaurs before the end of the cretaceous period
The gradual decline of the dinosaurs and pterosaurs presumably came before the impact of the Chicxulub asteroid and the global mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period, new research suggests. Studies also indicate that bird species spread and … Continue reading
Male or female? Scientist challenges evidence of sex differences among dinosaurs
A paleontologist is countering decades of studies that assert that some dinosaurs can be identified as male or female based on the shapes and sizes of their bones. Paleontology News — ScienceDaily
New research disproves common assumption on cranial joints of alligators, birds, dinosaurs
Although alligators, birds and dinosaurs have a similar skull-joint shape, this does not guarantee that their movements are the same. Paleontology News — ScienceDaily