News tagged with dinosaurs
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Rutgers scientists: Asteroids did kill the dinosaurs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes, you just can’t trust the iridium. A silvery-white natural metal that’s a member of the platinum family, iridium is a key ingredient in the manufacture of spark plugs. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 29, 2010 |
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Size of mammals exploded after dinosaur extinction
Researchers demonstrate that the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago made way for mammals to get bigger - about a thousand times bigger than they had been. The study, which is published in the prestigious ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 25, 2010 |
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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, ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 23, 2010 |
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Oldest dinosaur embryos give insights into infancy and growth
(PhysOrg.com) -- After sitting in collections for nearly 30 years, some remarkably well-preserved dinosaur eggs and their contents are offering new insights into the infancy and growth of early dinosaurs. ...
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Nov 14, 2010 |
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Key genes may contain insight into evolution of dinosaurs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Birds and alligators have little in common, other than that the first is sometimes the other's lunch. That hasn't always been the case, though, and that's what attracts Arkhat Abzhanov.
Nov 05, 2010 |
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Volcanoes have shifted Asian rainfall
Scientists have long known that large volcanic explosions can affect the weather by spewing particles that block solar energy and cool the air. Some suspect that extended "volcanic winters" from gigantic blowups ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 03, 2010 |
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Researchers discover baby sauropod tracks
Staff at the Morrison Natural History Museum have again discovered infant dinosaur footprints in the foothills west of Denver, Colorado, near the town of Morrison. Dating from the Late Jurassic, some 148 million ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 01, 2010 |
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Found: First complete remains of early sauropod dinosaur
Scientists have discovered in China the first complete skeleton of a pivotal ancestor of Earth's largest land animals – the sauropod dinosaurs. The new species, tentatively dubbed Yizhousaurus sunae, lived ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 28, 2010 |
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In the footsteps of dinosaurs
(PhysOrg.com) -- A geosciences grad student is piecing together evidence about dinosaurs from fossilized footprints.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 27, 2010 |
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Halloween horror story -- tale of the headless dragonfly
In a short, violent battle that could have happened somewhere this afternoon, the lizard made a fast lunge at the dragonfly, bit its head off and turned to run away. Lunch was served.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 26, 2010 |
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What did T. rex eat? Each other
It turns out that the undisputed king of the dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex, didn't just eat other dinosaurs but also each other. Paleontologists from the United States and Canada have found bite marks on the ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 15, 2010 |
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Using discards, scientists discover different dinosaurs' stomping grounds
(PhysOrg.com) -- By examining the type of rock in which dinosaur fossils were embedded, an often unappreciated part of the remains, scientists have determined that different species of North American dinosaurs ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 14, 2010 |
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Oldest evidence of dinosaurs found in Polish footprints
fossilized tracks -- is described this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Just one or two million years after the massive Permian-Triassic extinction, an animal smaller than a house cat walked across ...
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Oct 06, 2010 |
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New fossil suggests dinosaurs not so fierce after all
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new species of dinosaur discovered in Arizona suggests dinosaurs did not spread throughout the world by overpowering other species, but by taking advantage of a natural catastrophe that ...
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Oct 06, 2010 |
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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.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 04, 2010 |
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