Paleontologists Doubt 'Dinosaur Dance Floor'

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Nov 07, 2008 | 3.8 / 5 (10) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of paleontologists visited the northern Arizona wilderness site nicknamed a "dinosaur dance floor" and concluded there were no dinosaur tracks there, only a dense collection of unusual p ...

British boy spots dinosaur tracks

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Feb 24, 2008 | 4.2 / 5 (13) | 0

An 8-year-old boy found a pair of 160-million-year-old dinosaur tracks on the beach near his home in England, it was reported.

Scientists: New dinosaur species found in SAfrica

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Nov 11, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (8) | 0

(AP) -- Scientists say they've discovered a new dinosaur species in South Africa that may help explain how the creatures evolved into the largest animals on land.

Canadian scientist aims to turn chickens into dinosaurs

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Aug 25, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (24) | 33

After years spent hunting for the buried remains of prehistoric animals, a Canadian paleontologist now plans to manipulate chicken embryos to show he can create a dinosaur.

Britain's oldest dinosaur to be released

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Nov 03, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- After 210 million years of being entombed in rock, the Bristol Dinosaur is about to be released, thanks to a Heritage Lottery Fund grant awarded to the University of Bristol.

'A dinosaur dance floor': Numerous tracks at Jurassic oasis on Arizona-Utah border

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Oct 20, 2008 | 4.8 / 5 (28) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah geologists identified an amazing concentration of dinosaur footprints that they call "a dinosaur dance floor," located in a wilderness on the Arizona-Utah border where there ...

U of A students reaffirm the work of a 1920s paleontologist

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Dec 14, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

Three University of Alberta paleontology graduate students blew the dust off an 85-year-old dinosaur find to discover the original researcher had it right and a 1970s revision of his work was wrong.

Competition may have led to new dinosaur species in Grande Prairie area

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May 12, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (8) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The discovery of a gruesome feeding frenzy that played out 73 million years ago in northwestern Alberta may also lead to the discovery of new dinosaur species in northwestern Alberta.

Mummified dinosaur skin yields up new secrets

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Jul 01, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (18) | 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from The University of Manchester have identified preserved organic molecules in the skin of a dinosaur that died around 66-million years ago.

Unusual fish-eating dinosaur had crocodile-like skull

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Jan 14, 2008 | 4.7 / 5 (16) | 1

An unusual dinosaur has been shown to have a skull that functioned like a fish-eating crocodile, despite looking like a dinosaur. It also possessed two huge hand claws, perhaps used as grappling hooks to lift ...

Possible dinosaur burrows clues to survival strategies

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Jul 16, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

Internationally renowned palaeontologist and Monash University Honorary Research Associate, Dr Anthony Martin has found evidence of a dinosaur burrow along the coast of Victoria, which helps to explain how dinosaurs protected ...

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

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Jun 17, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 0

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 ...

Dino footprints enter record books

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Oct 06, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (8) | 3

French researchers on Tuesday said they had uncovered the biggest dinosaur footprints in the world, left by giant sauropods that may have weighed 40 tonnes or more.

Mysterious mountain dino may be a new species

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Jun 12, 2008 | 3.9 / 5 (21) | 0

A partial dinosaur skeleton unearthed in 1971 from a remote British Columbia site is the first ever found in Canadian mountains and may represent a new species, according to a recent examination by a University ...

T. rex still looking for home after Vegas auction

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Oct 04, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- A fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex is still looking for a home after bidders failed to meet the minimum price Saturday at a Las Vegas auction.