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 30 2011

Dino-Era Animals: Now in Full Color

Tag: Animals,Dinosaurs,Extinct Animals,Fossils,Prehistoric,Prehistoric Animals — Jennifer Viegas @ 6:00 pm
Paleontologists uncover chemical traces of pigmentation for prehistoric bird, fish and squid fossils.

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.

Jun 01 2011

Hybrid Mammoth DNA Found

Tag: Animal Behavior,Animals,Extinct Animals,Fossils,Mammals — Tim Wall @ 9:41 am
Woolly mammoths may have interbred with other ancient elephants that crossed their paths.

May 23 2011

Not So Preposterous This High Ancestral Rhinoceros

Tag: Extinct Animals,Paleontology,Prehistoric Animals,Prehistoric Era — Tim Wall @ 2:11 pm
Possible new discovery of a species of ancestral rhinoceros makes a record-high debut.

May 17 2011

Dinosaurs May Soon Go Extinct—Again

Tag: Dinosaurs,Extinct Animals,Paleontology,Prehistoric Animals,Prehistoric Era,Tyrannosaurus — Jennifer Viegas @ 7:01 pm
Certain dinosaurs may have only existed in the minds of paleontologists.

May 12 2011

Where the Birds Are

Tag: Extinct Animals,Humans,Marine Life,Pet Birds,Wild Birds,Wildlife Conservation — Tim Wall @ 1:55 pm
A national census of birds shows where protection is critical for populations dependent on public lands.
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