'Jurassic World' Director Reveals New Story Details
Quite a few Jurassic World plot details have leaked out across the Internet in recent weeks, along with a map that offered a look at the new dinosaurs and attractions housed within the Isla Nublar...
View ArticleVirginia Dinosaur Smuggler Praised By Prosecutor Before Being Jailed For 3...
NEW YORK (AP) — A Virginia fossils dealer was sentenced Tuesday to three months in prison even after a prosecutor described his cooperation with law enforcement in heroic terms, saying he enabled more...
View ArticleGiant Dinosaur Graveyard Will Answer A Lot Of Questions
Paleontologists have discovered nearly 50 entire ichthyosaur dinosaur fossils in southern Chile, one of the best finds of its kind to date, they said on Tuesday.The fossils of the dolphin-like creature...
View ArticleA Surprising Number Of Creatures Switched From Water To Land After The...
The cataclysm that ended the Age of Dinosaurs not only drove land animals to migrate into the water, but also pushed aquatic creatures to colonize the land, a new study reveals.The shifts between land...
View ArticleScientists Crack A Longstanding Mystery About Whether Dinosaurs Were...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The hot question of whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded like birds and mammals or cold blooded like reptiles, fish and amphibians finally has a good answer.Dinosaurs, for eons...
View ArticleNew Species Of Dinosaur Had ‘Winged' Head
Move over Triceratops: There's a new horned dinosaur in town, and its cranial ornamentation is even more impressive than the three-horned dinosaur the world has come to know and love.A study of the...
View Article'Jurassic World' Director Reveals Bloody New Set Photo
As production continues on Universal Pictures' Jurassic World in Hawaii, director Colin Trevorrow has revealed the latest behind-the-scenes photo from the set.While no cast members are featured in this...
View ArticleHow 4 Minutes Of CGI Dinosaurs In ‘Jurassic Park’ Took A Year To Make
Before the 1990s, most visual effects in movies consisted of stop motion and people in suits. While computer animation was used in “Star Wars” and “Tron” and in title sequences like 1978’s “Superman,”...
View ArticleBizarre New Dinosaur Had 4 'Wings'
The largest "four-winged" dinosaur known has been found, and this predator has the longest feathers yet outside of birds, researchers say. This new finding yields insights on how dinosaurs may have...
View ArticleTyrannosaurs Hunted Prey In Terrifying ‘Gangs’
Some 70 million years ago, three tyrannosaurs stalked together across a mud flat in Canada, possibly searching for prey.The new insight comes from several parallel tyrannosaur tracks unearthed in...
View ArticleSupermassive Dinosaur Fossils Found In Argentina
A supermassive dinosaur that would have weighed as much as 60 small cars has been found in Argentina, where it likely perished in a bog some 77 million years ago, palaeontologists said Thursday.Dubbed...
View ArticleThis Giant Dinosaur Swam The Rivers Of Ancient Africa 97 Million Years Ago
The fearsome Spinosaurus is one of the icons of the dinosaur pantheon. It was larger than T. rex (and larger than all other carnivorous dinosaurs, in fact), and on its back it sported a sail taller...
View ArticleResearchers Discover 3 New Mammal Species That Lived With The Dinosaurs
Extinct squirrel-like creatures from China suggest the earliest mammals originated more than 200 million years ago, much earlier than often previously thought, researchers say.The fossils were...
View ArticleCrazy Ancient Bird Looks Like A Cross Between A Pelican And A Dragon
A sprawling ancient flying reptile looked so much like a dragon that could have flown alongside the aerial predators called "ikran" in the film "Avatar" that its discoverers named the newfound beast...
View ArticleNew Fossil Tells The History Of An Epic Ancient Predator Battle
A buried tooth has rewritten our thinking about how the apex predators of the Triassic interacted. Modern clashes between crocodiles and lions have nothing on what occurred where land met sea more than...
View ArticleScientists Have Finally Figured Out The Mystery Of An Ancient Creature Called...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In July 1965, two gigantic fossilized dinosaur arms replete with menacing claws were unearthed in the remote southern Gobi desert of Mongolia. Measuring 8 feet (2.4 meters), they...
View Article50-Year Mystery Of Dinosaur With Huge Arms And Death Claws Solved
Everywhere scientists look it seems like they are finding dinosaurs. A new species is emerging at the astounding pace of one per week. And this continues with the announcement of perhaps the strangest...
View ArticleDon't Be Fooled By Appearances, This Cute Dinosaur Hunted Sharks Back In The Day
The most fearsome land predator of the early Permian Era 290 million years ago fed on sharks, according to new fossil evidence.Dimetrodon was a terror of the pre-dinosaur era, the first common large...
View ArticleHow 4 Minutes Of CGI Dinosaurs In ‘Jurassic Park’ Took A Year To Make
Universal Pictures unveiled the first trailer for next summer's "Jurassic World" movie Tuesday starring Chris Pratt. From the looks of it, the fourth installment in the series will be filled with...
View ArticleFire Breaks Out In Dinosaur Exhibit At The Museum Of Natural History
The building was promptly evacuated, a spokesperson for the museum told NBC. While there are no reports of any injuries, the extent of the damage is still unknown.Witnesses, however, reported heavy...
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