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Students discover new species of raptor dinosaur (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new species of dinosaur, a relative of the famous Velociraptor, has been discovered in Inner Mongolia by two PhD students.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dinosaur discovery helps solve piece of evolutionary puzzle (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A George Washington University expedition to the Gobi Desert of China has enabled researchers to solve the puzzle of how one group of dinosaurs came to look like birds independent of birds. ...

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created Jan 28, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sand dunes reveal unexpected dryness during heavy monsoon

(PhysOrg.com) -- The windswept deserts of northern China might seem an odd destination for studying the heavy monsoon rains that routinely drench the more tropical regions of Southeast Asia.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Sands of Gobi Desert yield new species of nut-cracking dinosaur

Plants or meat: That's about all that fossils ever tell paleontologists about a dinosaur's diet. But the skull characteristics of a new species of parrot-beaked dinosaur and its associated gizzard stones indicate ...

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created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | 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

Young dinosaurs roamed together, died together (w/Video)

A herd of young birdlike dinosaurs met their death on the muddy margins of a lake some 90 million years ago, according to a team of Chinese and American paleontologists that excavated the site in the Gobi ...

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created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0


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