Scientists Debate Dinosaur Demise
Yucatan crater was carved too soon to be the smoking gun, some say. Others stick to the standard theory. The ancient asteroid that slammed into the Gulf of Mexico and purportedly ended the reign of the dinosaurs occurred 300,000 years too early, ... [... more]
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Streeeetch! Long-neck Dinosaur Sets New Standard
Newly identified dinosaur species has one of the longest necks relative to body length ever measured. An artist rendering of Erketu ellisoni , the long-necked sauropod. Image courtesy Jason Brougham, AMNH, published here with ... [... more]
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Dinosaur Tumor Studied for Human Cancer Clues
Animal illnesses are being studied in med school in an effort to better understand the evolution of diseases that inflict us. An oviraptorosaur reconstructed as part of a Carnegie Museum of Natural History display. Credit: Mark A. Klingler, ... [... more]
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Humans Fuel Worst Extinction Since End of Dinosaurs
Changes to EarthâEURs biodiversity have occurred more rapidly in the past 50 years than at any time in human history. Changes to Earth's biodiversity have occurred more rapidly in the past 50 years than at any time in human history, creating a ... [... more]
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Ocean Was a Hot Tub in Dino Era
Hot tub sales would have been dismal back in the dinosaur era, when the steaming ocean provided a free alternative. A new study of ancient sediments and fossils indicates tropical Atlantic water ranged from 91 to 107 degrees Fahrenheit between ... [... more]
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Norway's First Dinosaur Sets Depth Record
To claim the country's first dinosaur discovery, Norwegians had to dig more than a mile down. Plateosaurus ranged up to 30 feet (9 metres long) and weighed up to 4 tons. It lived in Europe and on Greenland 210 to 195 million years ago An oil ... [... more]
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Digging up Dinosaurs ... and Keeping the Bones
Amateurs swinging pickaxes at 65-million-year-old rock searched for ancient treasure on private land. The prized bone of the writer's collection, a weathered centrum of a Triceratops vertebra. Credit: Charles Q. Choi MARMARTH, N.D.-It's 110 ... [... more]
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Myth Busted: Dinosaur Not a Cannibal
A dinosaur species long accused of cannibalism and infanticide is finally having the charges against it lifted and its reputation restored. A new re-examination of two Coelophysis specimens reveal the dinosaur did not eat its young after all. ... [... more]
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Unknown Dinosaurs: Golden Age of Discovery Ahead
More than 1,300 unique dinosaur genera await discovery by paleontologists. Most of them will be found in the next few decades. The next several decades could prove a golden age for dinosaur hunters looking to discover new species of the ancient ... [... more]
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Dino Hunters Buried in Fossils
Paleotologists unearth 67 dinosaur fossils they hope will help them understand how dinosaurs developed and aged. Montana State University doctoral students Liz Freedman, left, and Holly Woodward excavate a Psittacosaurus skeleton in Mongolia. ... [... more]
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Big Dinosaurs Were Hot, Study Suggests
The new theoretical work could help answer how dinosaurs kept warm. A new study helps answer a longstanding dinosaur mystery by revealing that the largest dinosaurs could likely maintain warm body temperatures while their smaller cousins were ... [... more]
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Dwarf Dinosaur Discovered
The newfound species probably shrank due to their island lifestyle. Scientists have unearthed what they consider to be a dwarf species of dinosaur. The beast was still bigger than a horse. On a dig in northern Germany, researchers recovered bones ... [... more]
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