New research from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh indicates that even as a teenager the Tyrannosaurus rex showed signs that it would grow up to be a ferocious predator.
Archaeology
Mar 11, 2019
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Dinosaurs were unaffected by long-term climate changes and flourished before their sudden demise by asteroid strike.
Archaeology
Mar 6, 2019
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Paleontologists working on a steep river bank in Alaska have discovered fossil evidence of the northernmost marsupial known to science.
Archaeology
Feb 19, 2019
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An international team of researchers has performed molecular analysis on fossil feathers from a small, feathered dinosaur from the Jurassic. Their research could aid scientists in pinpointing when feathers evolved the capacity ...
Evolution
Jan 28, 2019
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Palentologists are announcing a new dinosaur discovery in the southwest United States. Crittendenceratops krzyzanowskii is a new ceratopsid (horned) dinosaur from 73-million-year-old (Late Cretaceous) rocks in southern Arizona. ...
Archaeology
Dec 14, 2018
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About 66 million years after two dinosaurs died apparently locked in battle on the plains of modern-day Montana, an unusual fight over who owns the entangled fossils has become a multimillion-dollar issue that hinges on the ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Nov 17, 2018
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Burnt toast and dinosaur bones have a common trait, according to a new, Yale-led study. They both contain chemicals that, under the right conditions, transform original proteins into something new. It's a process that may ...
Archaeology
Nov 9, 2018
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Perhaps one of the world's best known fossils is Archaeopteryx. With its beautifully preserved feathers, it has long been regarded as the first bird in the fossil record, and is often called "the icon of evolution". Only ...
Archaeology
Oct 25, 2018
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At the end of a street of newly built high-rises in the northern Chinese city of Yanji stands an exposed cliff face, where paleontologists scrape away 100 million-year-old rock in search of prehistoric bones.
Archaeology
Oct 25, 2018
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A newly identified extinct bird species from a 127 million-year-old fossil deposit in northeastern China provides new information about avian development during the early evolution of flight.
Archaeology
Sep 24, 2018
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