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New material of Early Cretaceous ornithurine bird Gansus supporting it’s a volant and diving bird

LI Yan, associate curator of Gansu Museum, collected 9 specimens of Gansus for further study during his fieldwork from 2002 to 2004. He and his collaborators from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, ...

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Down Under dinosaur burrow discovery provides climate change clues (w/ Video)

On the heels of his discovery in Montana of the first trace fossil of a dinosaur burrow, Emory University paleontologist Anthony Martin has found evidence of more dinosaur burrows - this time on the other ...

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Polysternon isonae, a new species of turtle that lived with dinosaurs in Isona

Researchers at the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), the Museu de la Conca Dellà (MCD) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have published this week in the online edition of ...

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created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Robotic dinosaurs on the way for next-gen paleontology at Drexel

Researchers at Drexel University are bringing the latest technological advancements in 3-D printing to the study of ancient life. Using scale models of real fossils, for the first time, they will be able to ...

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created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Polar dinosaur tracks open new trail to past

Paleontologists have discovered a group of more than 20 polar dinosaur tracks on the coast of Victoria, Australia, offering a rare glimpse into animal behavior during the last period of pronounced global warming, about 105 ...

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created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Test shows dinosaurs survived mass extinction by 700,000 years

University of Alberta researchers determined that a fossilized dinosaur bone found in New Mexico confounds the long established paradigm that the age of dinosaurs ended between 65.5 and 66 million years ago.

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created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

One of France's largest dinosaur fossil deposits found in the Charente region

The first excavations at the Audoin quarries in the town of Angeac, in the Charente region of south-western France, have confirmed that the site is one of the richest dinosaur fossil deposits in the country.

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created Oct 04, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists discover 2 new dinosaur species

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.

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created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Grand Canyon may be as old as dinosaurs, says new study

New geological evidence indicates the Grand Canyon may be so old that dinosaurs once lumbered along its rim, according to a study by researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the California ...

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created Apr 10, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 3

Paleontologist reports discovery of carnivorous dinosaur tracks in Australia

The first fossil tracks belonging to large, carnivorous dinosaurs have been discovered in Victoria, Australia, by paleontologists from Emory University, Monash University and the Museum of Victoria (both in Melbourne). The ...

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created Oct 19, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0


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