Jul 27 2011

Oldest Bird Was Actually a Dinosaur

Tag: Anatomy,Archaeopteryx,Birds,Dinosaurs,Evolution,Fossils,PaleontologyJennifer Viegas @ 5:00 pm
Archaeopteryx resembles a recently found two-pound dinosaur and gets knocked off its perch.

Jul 21 2011

Wasps Populated Rotting Dinosaur Eggs

The eggs were good eats, as well as home, to numerous scavenging insects.

Jul 12 2011

Triceratops Was Last Dinosaur Standing

The 65 million-year-old find suggests a meteor may have wiped out the dinosaurs in a sudden catastrophic event.

Jul 12 2011

Pterosaurs Evolutionary Late Bloomers

Pterosaurs ruled the sky with a body form that worked for 70 million years.

Jul 11 2011

Tough Turtle Survived What Dinosaurs Couldn’t

Tag: Amphibians,Animals,Dinosaurs,Fossils,Meteorites,TurtlesJennifer Viegas @ 7:00 pm
The hearty river turtle outlived the meteor that killed off dinosaurs.

Jul 11 2011

Holes Suggest Dinos Active

The finding adds new evidence to the debate of whether they were cold or warm-blooded.

Jun 30 2011

Dino-Era Animals: Now in Full Color

Paleontologists uncover chemical traces of pigmentation for prehistoric bird, fish and squid fossils.

Jun 29 2011

Vegetarian Dinosaur Fought With Its Head

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 23 2011

Big Dinos Stayed Cool

It turns out huge sauropods had a similar body temperature to humans -- paleontologists thought they would have been much hotter.

Jun 15 2011

Giant Fish-Eating Dino Once Roamed Outback

This massive dinosaur was among the biggest of all the predatory dinosaurs and made T. rex look puny.

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