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This Rare Tyrannosaurus Skeleton Is About To Be Auctioned
A nearly complete skeleton of a towering Tyrannosaurus bataaris set to go on auction on Sunday (May 20). The skeleton measures some 8-feet (2.4-meters) tall and 24-feet (7.3-meters) long. This is the...
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Modern Birds Are Essentially Living Baby Dinosaurs
Modern birds are essentially living dinosaurs with skulls that are remarkably similar to those of baby dinosaurs, according to a new Harvard study. The study — titled "Birds have paedomorphic dinosaur...
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Bacteria Found Under The Ocean Floor Hasn't Had Fresh Food Since The Age Of...
One-hundred feet below the Pacific Ocean sea floor, scientists have discovered bacteria that hasn't been exposed to oxygen, sunlight or new nutrients since the age of the dinosaurs. Although...
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You Can Thank A Meteorite For The Red Color Of Tomatoes
More than 60 million years ago, a meteorite slammed into Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs, and, on a less morbid note, giving tomatoes their distinct red color. According new research published in...
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Here's Your Chance To See Dinosaur Porn
Though dinosaurs are hundreds of times the size of birds, their sex lives may not have been that different from their modern-day descendants, scientists with dinosaur sex on the brain suggest. While...
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Drunken Hooligans Destroy Irreplaceable Dinosaur Fossils
Whether it was malicious intent or drunken tomfoolery doesn't matter much to Phillip Bell, a graduate student at the University of Alberta in Canada. His precious, irreplaceable duck-billed hadrosaur...
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A Large Dinosaur Footprint Was Found On NASA's Campus
Around 110 million years ago, a large, spiky dinosaur roamed the same earth as some of the nation's best space scientists. On Aug. 17, dinosaur tracker Ray Stanford found the back footprint of a...
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Some Dinosaurs Used The Same Hunting Techniques As Modern House Cats
A new study suggests that some predatory dinosaurs used ambush hunting techniques similar to modern cats, Jonathan Ball of BBC reports. The research, published in PLoS One, studied the fossil remains...
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Should We Strive To Save All Endangered Species?
As a list of the world's 100 most critically endangered species was published, one academic challenged the idea that all should be preserved. The idea that all species have an equal right to exist...
View ArticleResearcher Apologizes For Not Discovering Cool New Species Of Dinosaur Sooner
Two-hundred million years ago, a house-cat-size dinosaur that nibbled on plants roamed among Earth's mightiest carnivores.   The tiny dinosaur, called Pegomastax africanus, was recently identified by...
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See The Five Freakiest Dinosaurs Ever Dug Up
When we think about dinosaurs, it's typically hulking beasts like the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex and the noble triceratops that come to mind. But the era of giant lizards spanned hundreds of millions...
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These Vegetarian Dinosaurs Could Probably Out-Chew An Elephant
Giant plant-eating dinosaurs may have been champion chewers up there with the likes of mammals such as horses, bison or elephants, researchers say. The finding could help explain why these behemoths...
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New DNA Study Crushes The Hope Of A Real Life Jurassic Park
In August, Clive Palmer, an insanely rich and slightly crazy Australian mining magnate, announced he wanted to build a real life Jurassic Park. Sadly, news out today in the journal Proceedings of the...
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The Velociraptor Was Actually Nothing Like Its Hollywood Depiction
Velociraptor—"raptor" for short—roamed the Earth about 75 million to 71 million years ago toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, which was the glory days of the dinosaurs. Velociraptor was named in...
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Why Dinosaurs Had Wings
The first feathers and wings in nature evolved for decoration rather than flying, according to a new study. Today's birds inherit their wings and feathers from their dinosaur ancestors, which are...
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Why Two-Winged Creatures Outlasted Four-Winged Creatures
Why Microraptor became extinctIT IS tempting to think of the process of evolution as one of continuous, stately progress towards better-designed organisms. In fact, it is full of blind alleys--as a...
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New Dinosaur With Massive Eye Socket Discovered
Some 95 million years ago, a two-legged dinosaur even larger than the fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex skulked the deltas of North Africa looking for its next meal.The newly categorized and christened...
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Actually, The Age Of Earth Is Relevant To The Economy
WE ARE now about 1,400 days out from the next presidential election, so it's time for the potential candidates to start jockeying for position. Hence Marco Rubio's fabulously elusive (now viral) answer...
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Dinosaurs Slim Down In New Study
The fact that bones have curves has now thrown a curveball into calculations of dinosaur weight, researchers say.New estimates suggest dinosaurs may have been lighter than once thought, scientists...
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Fossil Discovered In The 1930s Could Be The World's Oldest Dinosaur
No one really knows when dinosaurs evolved.Hoping to clear up this mystery, researchers have been studying the mysterious fossil of Nyasasaurus parringtoni, which predates all other dinosaurs by 10...
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