Jul 21 2011

Wasps Populated Rotting Dinosaur Eggs

Tag: Animal Behavior,Animals,Dinosaur Era Animals,Dinosaurs,Extinct Animals,Food,Fossils,Insects and Arachnids,Paleontology — Jennifer Viegas @ 3:51 pm
The eggs were good eats, as well as home, to numerous scavenging insects.

Jul 12 2011

Pterosaurs Evolutionary Late Bloomers

Tag: Amphibians and Reptiles,Animals,Dinosaur Era Animals,Dinosaurs,Evolution,Extinct Animals,Wild Birds — Tim Wall @ 4:55 pm
Pterosaurs ruled the sky with a body form that worked for 70 million years.

Jul 11 2011

Holes Suggest Dinos Active

Tag: Amphibians and Reptiles,Animal Behavior,Animals,Dinosaur Era Animals,Dinosaurs,Extinct Animals,Mammals,Mass Extinction — Tim Wall @ 3:54 pm
The finding adds new evidence to the debate of whether they were cold or warm-blooded.

Jun 29 2011

Vegetarian Dinosaur Fought With Its Head

Tag: Animal Behavior,Animals,Dinosaur Era Animals,Dinosaurs,Extinct Animals,Fossils,Paleontology,Science and Technology — Jennifer Viegas @ 5:35 pm
Not all dinosaurs had huge teeth and a taste for flesh, but new research suggests that at least one scrappy plant-eating dinosaur was a talented fighter, waging battle with its best weapon: a hard head.

Jun 22 2011

Pterosaur Airlines Now Departing

Tag: Animals,Biomimetics,Dinosaur Era Animals,Extinct Animals — Tim Wall @ 1:03 pm
Aircraft designers are finding the beauty of a crest is matched with aerodynamic ability.

Feb 10 2010

165-Million-Year-Old Spider Fossil Preserves Original Features

Tag: Archaeology,Dinosaur Era Animals,Extinct Animals,Fossils,Insects and Arachnids,Photography — Jennifer Viegas @ 5:03 pm
New fossils from the Middle Jurassic period show what at least one species of spider, Eoplectreurys gertschi, looked like when dinosaurs dominated the planet. Check out the incredible detail on this fossil. Credit for all images goes to Paul Selden ...

Feb 05 2010

New Cretaceous Turtle Was An Ocean Invader

Tag: Amphibians and Reptiles,Animals,Dinosaur Era Animals,Extinct Animals,Invasive Animal Species,Marine Life — Jennifer Viegas @ 5:32 pm
An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of "turtle of Angola," a Late Cretaceous reptile that was one of the earliest known marine turtles from Africa. The seafaring turtle, Angolachelys mbaxi, lived 90 million years ago. Octavio Mateus, ...