News tagged with ankylosaur
U of A students reaffirm the work of a 1920s paleontologist
Three University of Alberta paleontology graduate students blew the dust off an 85-year-old dinosaur find to discover the original researcher had it right and a 1970s revision of his work was wrong.
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Dec 14, 2009 |
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Team Discovers New Dinosaur Species From Montana
A husband and wife team of American paleontologists has discovered a new species of dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago during the early Cretaceous of central Montana.
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Oct 30, 2009 |
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Were dinosaurs undergoing long-term decline before mass extinction?
Despite years of intensive research about the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs about 65.5 million years ago, a fundamental question remains: were dinosaurs already undergoing a long-term decline before an ...
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May 01, 2012 |
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'Skin bones' helped large dinosaurs survive, new study says
Bones contained entirely within the skin of some of the largest dinosaurs on Earth might have stored vital minerals to help the massive creatures survive and bear their young in tough times, according to new ...
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Nov 29, 2011 |
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New raptor dinosaur takes a licking keeps on ticking
Raptor dinosaurs like the iconic Velociraptor from the movie franchise Jurassic Park are renowned for their "fear-factor." Their terrifying image has been popularized in part because members of this group possess a greatly ...
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Sep 19, 2011 |
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Newborn dinosaur discovered in Maryland
No, this isn't Jurassic Park. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with help from an amateur fossil hunter in College Park, Md., have described the fossil of an armored dinosaur hatchling. It is ...
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Sep 14, 2011 |
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The first single-fingered dinosaur
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new species of parrot-sized dinosaur, the first discovered with only one finger, has been unearthed in Inner Mongolia, China.
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Jan 24, 2011 |
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Horse-dragon and colossal iguana: Scientists identify new beaked herbivorous dinosaurs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Paleontologists from the University of Pennsylvania and the Utah Geological Survey have described two skeletons representing two new species of beaked herbivorous dinosaurs, known as iguanodonts, ...
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Nov 23, 2010 |
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New dinosaur species discovered on 'lost continent' (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two remarkable new species of horned dinosaurs have been found in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah. The giant plant-eaters were inhabitants of the "lost continent" ...
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Sep 22, 2010 |
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CT scans reveal that dinosaurs were airheads
(PhysOrg.com) -- Paleontologists have long known that dinosaurs had tiny brains, but they had no idea the beasts were such airheads.
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Dec 08, 2008 |
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Stegosaur plates and spikes for looks only, researchers say
The bizarre plates and spikes that lined the backbones of the long-extinct stegosaurs were probably extreme examples of the often elaborate and colorful displays developed by animals to recognize fellow members ...
May 16, 2005 |
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