News tagged with early dinosaurs

The color of dinosaur feathers identified

(PhysOrg.com) -- The colour of some feathers on dinosaurs and early birds has been identified for the first time, reports a paper published in Nature this week.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 27, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (17) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Evolution rewritten, again and again

A team of researchers at the University of Bristol decided to find out, with investigations of dinosaur and human evolution. Their study, which is published this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, suggests most f ...

Biology / Evolution

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (17) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Science, truth, and language: Communicating with non-science and public audiences

How many times do we hear that some scientific view is "only theory" or that it is "not proven"? The hidden implication is that if we have not "proven" the case, then we do not know anything for certain about it, and any ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 30, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 197

Sifting through S. Africa's archaeological riches

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.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0