Category: Dinosaurs
What Stories These Lice Can Tell
Were there many bird and mammal species while dinosaurs still lived? A study on fossilized lice suggests the answer is yes.
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What Stories These Lice Can Tell
Some Dinosaurs Were Nocturnal, Eye Bones Show
The eye structure of the creatures shows that some functioned capably in the dark, contrary to popular belief.
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Some Dinosaurs Were Nocturnal, Eye Bones Show
‘World’s Largest Dinosaurs’ at American Museum of Natural History -Review
A new exhibition, “The World’s Largest Dinosaurs,” at the American Museum of Natural History, shows how paleontology is changing along with our knowledge of the extinct creatures.
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‘World’s Largest Dinosaurs’ at American Museum of Natural History -Review
Long-Necked Sauropods Scarfed Down Fast-Food Feasts
Scientists want to know how sauropods thrived for 140 million years, and ate enough to grow so hefty.
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Long-Necked Sauropods Scarfed Down Fast-Food Feasts
Angola: New Dinosaur Found in Long-Closed Country
In a first for Angola, emerging from decades of war, scientists say that they have discovered a dinosaur fossil there of an uncataloged species.
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Angola: New Dinosaur Found in Long-Closed Country
Hobby in Dinosaur Hunting Makes Fresh Tracks for Paleontology
An amateur dinosaur hunter has identified a new dinosaur, the second he’s named in five years, and has his 13th paleontology publication.
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Hobby in Dinosaur Hunting Makes Fresh Tracks for Paleontology
Scientists Say They Have Found the Heart of a Dinosaur
Paleontologists say they have discovered something they had despaired of ever finding: the heart of a dinosaur.
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Scientists Say They Have Found the Heart of a Dinosaur
Fossil With Signs of Feathers Is Cited as Bird-Dinosaur Link
Paleontologists have discovered in China a fossil dinosaur with what are reported to be clear traces of feathers from head to tail.
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Fossil With Signs of Feathers Is Cited as Bird-Dinosaur Link
Dinosaur Find Takes Scientists Beyond Bones
A 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex discovered in Montana has apparently yielded the improbable: soft tissues, including blood vessels and possibly cells lining them.
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Dinosaur Find Takes Scientists Beyond Bones
Tests Confirm T. Rex Kinship With Birds
An analysis of proteins extracted from fossils has yielded the first molecular data confirming the hypothesis of a close dinosaur-bird ancestry, scientists say.
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Tests Confirm T. Rex Kinship With Birds