Archaeologists Have Found Evidence Of Dinosaur Pee
Last week, researchers from Brazil published an article in the Journal of South American Earth Sciences updating the world on the state of dinosaur trace fossils in Brazil. But they're not just any...
View ArticleThe Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Also Boiled The Planet's Atmosphere
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs set off an intense heat wave that briefly boiled the Earth's atmosphere – but it didn't burn off all the plants.Humanity has not been unlucky enough to observe...
View ArticleNew 50-foot-long 'dragon' dinosaur discovered
A new dinosaur which had an extraordinarily long neck has been discovered in China and named the ‘Dragon of Qijiang.’Qijianglong (pronounced "CHI-jyang-lon") is about 15 metres in length and lived...
View ArticleDinosaurs may have eaten a psychedelic fungus similar to LSD
Millions of years before LSD and rock and roll, dinosaurs munched on psychedelic fungus, a new study suggests.The hints that dinos got high come from the first amber fossil ever found of ergot, a grass...
View ArticleThis ancient human-sized 'lobster' is the ancestor of modern spiders
A 480-million-year-old fossil is giving paleontologists new insights into a sea monsterlike creature called an anomalocaridid, which is an ancestor of modern-day arthropods such as lobsters and...
View ArticleHere's the disturbing way the dinosaur sounds in Jurassic Park were made
I remember exactly where I was when I first watched Jurassic Park — hiding behind a couch at my dad's friend's house, hands covering my ears to muffle the terrifying sound of dinosaur yelps and roars...
View ArticleThe Brontosaurus is back
The Brontosaurus is back. Or at least it should be, according to a new analysis of the long-necked dinosaur family tree.The study researchers suggest the dinosaur currently known as Apatosaurus...
View ArticlePaleontologists find differences between girl dinosaurs and boy dinosaurs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For extinct creatures like dinosaurs known only from fossils, it is notoriously difficult to differentiate the males from the females of a species because sex distinctions are...
View ArticleMeet Chilesaurus—the new dinosaur species discovered in Chile
Chilesaurus, an entirely new dinosaur species, was apparently the Mr. Potato Head of the Late Jurassic. As described today in a study in the journal Nature, Chilesaurus had the teeth of an apatosaur,...
View ArticleHere's why the brontosaurus got its dinosaur status back
So, the name Brontosaurus is back in business.After comparing, analysing, measuring and coding an extraordinary amount of anatomical detail pertaining to diplodocid sauropods, Emanuel Tschopp and...
View ArticleThe real 'Jurassic World' is in China — 17,000 dinosaur eggs have been found...
Another batch of 43 fossilized dinosaur eggs was found in a Chinese region known for its prehistoric bounty. An abundance of red sandstone rock formations there helped preserve hundreds of eggs, 11...
View ArticleScientists just created chickens with Velociraptor snouts
Birds have an amazing array of beaks, from the curved snout of a flamingo, to the delicate and deadly beak of an owl, to the rounder snout of the dino-chicken.If you haven't heard of a dino-chicken...
View ArticleScientists discovered 18,000 new species last year, including a 'chicken from...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some 18,000 species, great and small, were discovered in 2014, adding to the 2 million already known, scientists said on Thursday, as they released a "Top 10" list that highlights...
View ArticleHere’s the first teaser trailer for Pixar’s long-delayed movie 'The Good...
Pixar’s next film “Inside Out” isn’t even in theaters yet, but the studio is already starting to tease its big November feature, the dinosaur/human buddy comedy “The Good Dinosaur.”The studio released...
View ArticleThe paleontologist who worked on 'Jurassic World' is trying to create a real...
Yes, this is for real.No, there isn't dinosaur DNA trapped in amber, waiting to be replicated and cloned.But that's not the only way to make a dino, said Jack Horner, the paleontologist who worked on...
View Article5 science facts 'Jurassic World' totally ignored
"Jurassic World," the latest installment of the "Jurassic Park" franchise, will open this summer to fan expectations of bigger, better dinosaurs. While the studio might deliver on that front, this...
View ArticleScientists just found 75-million-year-old dinosaur blood in fossils
Paris (AFP) - Scientists said Tuesday they have discovered what appear to be red blood cells and collagen fibres in dinosaur bones, a find that may boost prospects of prising organic remains from a...
View Article‘Jurassic World’ completely ignores these important discoveries scientists...
When it was first released during the summer of 1993, "Jurassic Park" not only captured the imaginations of viewers with its dazzling special effects, it also made dinosaurs cool again, and made the...
View ArticleHere’s how big the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park would be in real life
Jack Horner — the paleontologist who's served as technical advisor on all of the Jurassic Park films — thinks that he can make a real dinosaur in the next five to 10 years. Horner's idea for a...
View ArticleHere's how the 'Jurassic World' dinosaurs looked in real life
It is well-known at this point that "Jurassic World," the latest installment of the "Jurassic Park" franchise, diverges from the science when it comes to its portrayal of dinosaurs.In real life, many...
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