New Dinosaur Named After Obama's Great Smile
Researchers at Yale University have named a newly discovered dinosaur 'Obamadon gracilis' in honor of the US president's toothy grin.The small, insect-eating lizard was first discovered in eastern...
View ArticleThere Were Never A Ton Of Tiny Dinosaurs, Just A Whole Bunch Of Huge Ones
Dinosaurs as a group may have been skewed more toward giant species than modern-day creatures are, researchers say.The findings, based on comparisons of size ranges among extinct and current species,...
View ArticleIf You've Ever Wondered Which Dinosaur Would Taste The Best, Here's The Answer
If you could chow down on any dinosaur meat, which species would you chose?My first thought was definitely a T. Rex, but I've changed my mind now, after reading this article by Erin Berger of Popular...
View ArticleA Man Just Pled Guilty To Illegally Smuggling 70-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur...
A man accused of smuggling 70-million-year-old dinosaur skeletons, including a Tyrannosaur, into the United States pleaded guilty in court Thursday.Eric Prokopi, 38, who is to be sentenced on April 25,...
View ArticleFossil Of 244-Million-Year-Old Giant Carnivore Discovered
Newfound fossils of a giant dolphin-shaped reptilian predator are now shedding light on how the world recovered after the most devastating mass extinction in history, researchers say.This prehistoric...
View ArticleEven The Biggest Dinosaurs Had Teeny Tiny Brains
An advanced member of the largest group of dinosaurs ever to walk the Earth still had a relatively puny brain, researchers say.The scientists analyzed the skull of 70-million-year-old fossils of the...
View ArticleNew Dinosaur Species Is Tiny And Feathered
Researchers have discovered a new species of feathered but flightless little dinosaur from the Jurassic period.Remains of the tiny beast, dubbed Eosinopteryx brevipenna, found in northeastern China...
View ArticleNew Evidence Suggests That Yes, It Was An Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs
The idea that a cosmic impact ended the age of dinosaurs in what is now Mexico now has fresh new support, researchers say.The most recent and most familiar mass extinction is the one that finished the...
View ArticleDinosaurs May Have Made 'Milk' To Feed Their Young
Some birds, like flamingos and penguins, make a special substance called "crop milk" to feed their young. A new theory suggests that some dinosaurs may have done the same to keep their young...
View ArticleHundreds Of Dinosaur Egg Fossils Found In Spain
Researchers in northeastern Spain say they've uncovered hundreds of dinosaur egg fossils, including four kinds that had never been found before in the region. The eggs likely were left behind by...
View ArticleCreationist Explains How Humans Could Have Hunted The Tyrannosaurus Rex
Prominent creationist Dr. Joseph Mastropaolo, the man who wagered $10,000 that the literal interpretation of the book of Genesis cannot be disproved, does not deny that dinosaurs roamed the earth.But...
View ArticleDinosaur Embryos Found In China
Embryonic dinosaurs kicked and wiggled in the egg, a new discovery of a baby-dino-bone bed suggests.The bones, all from not-yet-hatched embryonic dinosaurs, are among the oldest dinosaur-embryo fossils...
View ArticleThis Fluffy, Winged Dinosaur May Have Been The First Bird
A prehistoric beast the size of a pheasant has become a contender for the title of oldest bird to stalk the Earth.The small, feathered "Dawn" bird lived around 160m years ago, about 10m years before...
View ArticleX-Rays Reveal Ancient Dinosaur-Bird's Colors
A transitional species that represents a link between dinosaurs and birds may have sported pale feathers that were dark at the tips, a new study suggests.For the study, detailed in the June 13 issue of...
View ArticleBaby Dinosaurs 'Crawled Like Toddlers' Before Becoming Two-Legged Adults
Analysis of bones 100 million years old showed baby Psittacosaurus had long arms and short legs, which were used to scuttle around shortly after hatching.The arms grew quickly between the ages of one...
View ArticleT. Rex Caught In The Act Of Attacking Another Dinosaur
As most anyone who went through the "dinosaur phase" in childhood already guessed Tyrannosaurus rex was a fearsome predator.A plant-eating dinosaur found with a Tyrannosaurus rex tooth lodged in its...
View ArticleA New Dinosaur Has Been Discovered
A new species of horned dinosaur, Nasutoceratops titusi, was dug up in southern Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.It looks a lot like the infamous Triceratops, but has a narrower, more...
View Article72 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Tail Found In Mexican Desert
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A team of archaeologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a 72 million-year-old dinosaur tail in a desert in northern Mexico, the country's National Institute for...
View ArticleCould A Human Beat A T-Rex At Arm Wrestling?
"First, we're assuming that the T. rex won't just eat the person, right?" asks Jack Conrad, a vertebrate paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Right. This is a...
View ArticleAustralian Billionaire Gets Approval To Build His Real Life 'Jurassic Park'
Eccentric Australian mining magnate Clive Palmer was Thursday given the green light to build "the world's biggest" park of giant robotic dinosaurs, despite hundreds of objections filed by local...
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