Fossil damaged at Dinosaur National Monument
Rangers are searching for leads after someone damaged a fossil at Dinosaur National Monument along the Utah-Colorado line.
Archaeology
Sep 7, 2014
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How did dinosaurs deliver bone-crushing bites? By keeping a stiff lower jaw.
Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs chomped through bone by keeping a joint in their lower jaw steady like an alligator, rather than flexible like a snake, according to a study being presented at the American Association for Anatomy ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Apr 26, 2021
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What do we really know about Dino DNA?
Ever since finding that soft tissue can preserve in dinosaur fossils, paleontologist Mary Schweitzer has been asked the "Jurassic Park" question – will we ever be able to find original dinosaur DNA? And if so, could we ...
Biotechnology
Mar 24, 2016
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US seizes fossil in latest dinosaur smuggling case
US authorities said Friday they are pursuing a fossil import company over the alleged smuggling of 70-million-year-old dinosaur bones from Mongolia.
Archaeology
Sep 5, 2014
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Scientists have bone to pick with T-Rex skeleton set to sell for millions
A curator gingerly fastens a pointy claw bone with a thin metal wire, completing perhaps the world's biggest construction kit—reassembling a 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus-Rex called Trinity.
Paleontology & Fossils
Mar 29, 2023
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Dinosaur teeth reveal what they didn't eat
Scratches on dinosaur teeth could reveal what they really ate. For the first time, dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has been used to infer the feeding habits of large theropods, including Allosaurus and T. rex.
Paleontology & Fossils
Dec 9, 2022
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A case of mistaken dino-identity
The official State Dinosaur of Texas is up for a new name, based on Southern Methodist University research that proved the titleholder has been misidentified.
Archaeology
Jan 13, 2009
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Unraveling the mysteries of Nipponosaurus
Nipponosaurus sachalinensis—a controversial hadrosaurid dinosaur whose fossilized skeleton was unearthed in southern Sakhalin in 1934—is found to be a valid taxon and a juvenile that had not reached sexual maturity.
Archaeology
Jun 9, 2017
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The curse of the horned dinosaur egg
Horned dinosaurs (ceratopsians) just can't catch a break when it comes to their fossilized eggs. The first purported examples turned up in Mongolia during the 1920s, attributed to Protoceratops. A few unlucky "Protoceratops" ...
Archaeology
Jun 3, 2015
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Heavy rains yield big dinosaur fossil find in Md.
Scientists say they have excavated Maryland's largest dinosaur fossil find in five years, a football-sized bone weighing between two and three pounds.
Archaeology
Sep 22, 2011
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