Dinosaurs News
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Bethesda -
A science studies go the headline comes across as one of the most bizarre: alligators given ketamine and fitted with headphones. The reason for this unusual practice was to assess how dinosaurs might have perceived the direction of sounds.
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Children's music queen Laurie Berkner released her picture book "We Are The Dinosaurs," in honor of the 20 year anniversary of the song.
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By AFP
London -
Dinosaur footprints dating back 170 million years have been discovered on a Scottish island and will help shed light on the reptiles' evolution, the University of Edinburgh said on Tuesday.
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By AFP
Paris -
Horned dinosaurs including Triceratops likely evolved their impressive head displays for the purpose of attracting a mate, rather than to recognise members of their own species, according to research published Wednesday.
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By AFP
Paris -
The earliest mammals were night creatures which only emerged from the cover of darkness after the demise of the daytime-dominating dinosaurs, researchers said Monday.
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Dinosaurs were wiped out 66 million years ago after an asteroid struck Earth in the Yucatan Peninsula. Scientists now believe had the asteroid arrived 30 seconds earlier or later, dinosaurs might still roam the Earth and humans might not be here.
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By AFP
London -
Fossils discovered in Tanzania in the 1930s have helped identify a "missing link" in dinosaur evolution that reveals their ancestors had long necks, walked on four legs and looked like crocodiles.
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By AFP
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For years, herder Gelegrash had a sideline bringing tourists to see a dinosaur skull hidden near the Flaming Cliffs in Mongolia's Gobi desert. Then, one day, it was gone.
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Brighton -
The first known example of fossilized brain tissue in a dinosaur has been located from a site in the U.K. The tissues are said to resemble those seen in modern crocodiles and birds.
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Would you like to walk with a dinosaur? With Google's new virtual exhibit that features over 50 natural history museums from around the world, visitors will be given an eye-opening experience, the likes of which has never been seen before.
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By AFP
Buenos Aires -
Researchers announced they have discovered a ferocious meat-eating dinosaur in Argentina, notable for having short arms like the T-rex but hailing from a different branch of the family tree.
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While there's plenty of evidence to suggest that dinosaurs were already in decline millions of years before the asteroid impact that spelled their doom, we know that those small, feathered theropod dinosaurs, otherwise known as birds, did survive.
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Organizers expect at least 1.9 million people to visit this year’s Gyeongnam Goseong Dinosaur World Expo in South Korea.
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This is one of those what if stories that scientists sometimes set themselves: could a human have outrun a T-rex or who the typical person have been the powerful dinosaur's next meal?
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Jensen -
A cliff-side in Utah has offered paleontologists a precious glimpse into the age of the earliest dinosaurs, and the scientists have unearthed some amazing fossils.
The fossils include a pterosaur that was likely the largest flying reptile of its time.
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Denver -
Long grooves carved into the ground by clawed feet may be evidence of "frenzied" dinosaur mating rituals, scientists say.
This behavior is common in some birds, and the discovery hints that two-legged dinos may have done this some 100 million years ago.
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Cape Town -
Human activity has sparked a mass extinction of species that may rival, and even surpass the death of the dinosaurs. With that in mind, a mother-and-son team is set to pedal across the Southern Atlantic on a customized boat powered only by foot pedals.
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A fossil found in Canada two centuries ago believed to be from a dinosaur has now been found to be a creature called a Dimetrodon. These large beasts actually pre-date dinosaurs by many millions of years.
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For some time, scientists have known that Tyrannosaurus rex and other theropod dinosaurs had serrated teeth.
They knew that those teeth, with their jagged edges worked like steak knives to help their owner tear through flesh.
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Research at the University of Toronto has found that Theropods, the species of dinosaur home to T.Rex, had unique teeth structures that underlined their predatory dominance.
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UPDATE: 7.6.15 - As was noted, as the actual box office figures were updated, it showed something different. "Inside Out" did inch by "Jurassic World" over the July 4 holiday.
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Jurassic World is breaking box-office records worldwide. If you fancy going to a real Jurassic World, however, you'll have a long wait. A leading scientist has explained why snuggling up besides as Brontosaurus won't be happening any time soon.
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UPDATE 6.15.15: The weekend actuals are out and "Jurassic World" now holds the title for the best opening ever, domestically. It also takes home the foreign and global titles as well.
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‘Jurassic World’ does its job in offering awe-inspiring displays of extinct creatures reborn, but it lacks a competent story to tie it all together and suffers from unavoidable comparisons to the original.
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Drumheller -
Canadian palaeontologists associated with the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta have identified a new species of horned dinosaur with some bizarre features.
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Dinosaurs grew quickly and were warm-blooded just like modern mammals, says a scientist who researched the metabolism of these ancient creatures.
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Nottingham -
Massive die-offs of almost every marine species millions of years ago were the result of a surge of carbon dioxide in the world's oceans, creating acidic seas.
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Cambridge -
Recently discovered ocean worms, known for feasting on whale bones, date back to prehistoric times. Long-ago the worms fed on the carcasses of giant marine reptiles, according to a new study that has plunged the depths of the sea.
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A new species of predator newt that lived about 220 million years ago has been discovered in Portugal and paleontologists believe it was a most vicious creature. About the length of a small car, it could actually kill and gobble dinosaurs.
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Two massive underground domes found in the Earth's crust in the Warburton Basin in Central Australia represent the remains of the largest known asteroid impact crater on our planet.
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Illustration of Apatosaurus louisae. ДиБгд
The Royal Ontario Museum has two new exhibits: Bats! and dinosaur baby eggs.
Chris Pratt stars in 'Jurassic World' Universal Pictures
The Royal Ontario Museum has two new exhibits: Bats! and dinosaur baby eggs.
Dinosaur Provincial Park met two of the criteria for being named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Chris Stubbs
The Royal Ontario Museum has two new exhibits: Bats! and dinosaur baby eggs.
The Royal Ontario Museum has two new exhibits: Bats! and dinosaur baby eggs.
The Dimetron borealis; this photo taken from an exhibit in a museum in Germany. Photo from H. Zell
The Royal Ontario Museum has two new exhibits: Bats! and dinosaur baby eggs.
A scene from 'Jurassic World' Universal Pictures
The Royal Ontario Museum has two new exhibits: Bats! and dinosaur baby eggs.
The Royal Ontario Museum has two new exhibits: Bats! and dinosaur baby eggs.
The Royal Ontario Museum has two new exhibits: Bats! and dinosaur baby eggs.
A scene from 'Jurassic World' Universal Pictures
The Royal Ontario Museum has two new exhibits: Bats! and dinosaur baby eggs.
Caption: "Artist's restoration of the head of Spinops sternbergorum." Usage restrictions: This image may be used by news organizations in reports describing the research of Farke and colleagues on Spinops. Credit: Copyright Dmitry Bogdanov, courtesy of Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology
"Hoodoos" 6 km. east of Drumheller, Ca. Gorgo
The Royal Ontario Museum has two new exhibits: Bats! and dinosaur baby eggs.
The Royal Ontario Museum has two new exhibits: Bats! and dinosaur baby eggs.
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