http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Dinosaurs are often thought of as large, fierce animals, but new research highlights a previously overlooked diversity of small dinosaurs. In the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, a team of paleontologists from the University of Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, Cleveland Museum of Natural History and University of Calgary have described a new dinosaur, the smallest plant-eating dinosaur species known from Canada. Albertadromeus syntarsus was identified from a partial hind leg, and other skeletal elements, that indicate it was a speedy runner. Approximately 1.6 m (5 ft) long, it weighed about 16 kg (30 lbs), comparable to a large turkey. http://phys.org/news288448515.html Other Sciences Wed, 22 May 2013 13:35:34 EST news288448515 (Phys.org) —Research into the incubation behaviour of birds suggests the type of parental care carried out by their long extinct ancestors. http://phys.org/news287810917.html Other Sciences Wed, 15 May 2013 04:29:08 EST news287810917 (Phys.org) —Fossil remains found by a George Washington University biologist in northwestern China have been identified as a new species of small theropod, or meat-eating, dinosaur. http://phys.org/news286805393.html Other Sciences Fri, 03 May 2013 13:10:01 EST news286805393 A small, bird-like North American dinosaur incubated its eggs in a similar way to brooding birds – bolstering the evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs, researchers at the University of Calgary and Montana State University study have found. http://phys.org/news285499298.html Other Sciences Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:21:50 EST news285499298 The journal Cretaceous Research is publishing an article which recognizes four different dinosaur eggs (oospecies) in the Coll de Nargó area (Lleida Province, south-central Pyrenees). The research proves the coexistence of different dinosaur species in this nesting area. The professors Xavier Delclòs, Ferran Colombo and Jaume Ortega, from the Department of Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Marine Geosciences of the UB, and some experts from the Catalan Institute of Paleontology (ICP) and the Spanish Geological and Mining Institute (IGME) participated in the research. http://phys.org/news284290928.html Other Sciences Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:42:15 EST news284290928 In a paper published in Nature Communications on January 22, 2013, a team of paleontologists including Dr. Luis Chiappe, Director of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County's (NHM) Dinosaur Institute, has discovered a way to determine the sex of an avian dinosaur species. http://phys.org/news278064572.html Other Sciences Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:00:06 EST news278064572 Dinosaurs were not only the largest animals to roam the Earth - they also had a greater number of larger species compared to all other back-boned animals - scientists suggest in a new paper published in the journal PLOS ONE today. http://phys.org/news275157701.html Other Sciences Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:00:05 EST news275157701 The asteroid collision widely thought to have killed the dinosaurs also led to extreme devastation among snake and lizard species, according to new research—including the extinction of a newly identified lizard species Yale and Harvard scientists have named Obamadon gracilis. http://phys.org/news274360386.html Other Sciences Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:00:12 EST news274360386 Two recent papers by palaeontologists working north of Broome highlight a new approach to the study of dinosaur footprints. http://phys.org/news271673821.html Other Sciences Fri, 09 Nov 2012 08:57:29 EST news271673821 The rise of the Rocky Mountains and the appearance of a major seaway that divided North America may have boosted the evolution of new dinosaur species, according to a new Ohio University-led study. http://phys.org/news263131587.html Other Sciences Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:00:05 EST news263131587 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have identified a new species of gigantic theropod dinosaur, a close relative of T. rex, from fossil skull and jaw bones discovered in China. http://phys.org/news220848452.html Other Sciences Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:48:09 EST news220848452 Fossils of a recently discovered dinosaur species in Argentina is a "missing link" in the evolution of the long-necked giants that roamed the earth millions of years ago, paleontologists said. http://phys.org/news220126305.html Other Sciences Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:12:03 EST news220126305 Celina Suarez and her twin sister, Marina, had always hoped they'd find dinosaur bones in the backyard of their childhood home in San Antonio, Texas. http://phys.org/news216570592.html Other Sciences Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:30:19 EST news216570592 When Morris Sutton picks a chipped, ordinary-looking rock from the soil, he's the first to touch the stone tool since an ancestor of man used it nearly 2 million years ago. http://phys.org/news204904455.html Other Sciences Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:20:01 EST news204904455 (PhysOrg.com) -- When Nicholas Longrich discovered a new dinosaur species with a heart-shaped frill on its head, he wanted to come up with a name just as flamboyant as the dinosaur's appearance. Over a few beers with fellow paleontologists one night, he blurted out the first thing that came to mind: Mojoceratops. http://phys.org/news197822264.html Other Sciences Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:10:04 EST news197822264 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new species of dinosaur, a relative of the famous Velociraptor, has been discovered in Inner Mongolia by two PhD students. http://phys.org/news188154841.html Other Sciences Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:01 EST news188154841 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new dinosaur species, Fruitadens haagarorum, is the smallest dinosaur ever discovered from North America. The tiny Fruitadens weighed less than a kilogram (two pounds) and was just 70 cm (28 inches) in length. http://phys.org/news175324667.html Other Sciences Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:28:28 EST news175324667 Internationally renowned palaeontologist and Monash University Honorary Research Associate, Dr Anthony Martin has found evidence of a dinosaur burrow along the coast of Victoria, which helps to explain how dinosaurs protected themselves from climate extremes during the Cretaceous period - the final era for dinosaurs before their extinction. http://phys.org/news166972486.html Other Sciences Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:15:08 EST news166972486 (PhysOrg.com) -- The discovery of a gruesome feeding frenzy that played out 73 million years ago in northwestern Alberta may also lead to the discovery of new dinosaur species in northwestern Alberta. http://phys.org/news161355788.html Other Sciences Tue, 12 May 2009 14:04:26 EST news161355788 Researchers from Field Museum in Chicago have helped discover two new dinosaur species in China's Gobi Desert: a 5-foot-tall forebear of Tyrannosaurus rex and a half-ton beaked dinosaur reminiscent of a giant ostrich. http://phys.org/news159646963.html Other Sciences Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:23:24 EST news159646963