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.

Paleontologist reports discovery of carnivorous dinosaur tracks in Australia

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Oct 19, 2007 | 4.5 / 5 (10) | 0

The first fossil tracks belonging to large, carnivorous dinosaurs have been discovered in Victoria, Australia, by paleontologists from Emory University, Monash University and the Museum of Victoria (both in Melbourne). The ...

Ancient mammal tracks found at national monument

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Jul 24, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

(AP) -- Hundreds of tiny footprints left by mammals some 190 million years ago have been found on a canyon wall in a remote part of Dinosaur National Monument, park officials said Thursday.

How to look at dinosaur tracks

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Apr 30, 2007 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

A new study appearing in the May issue of The Journal of Geology provides fascinating insight into the factors geologists must account for when examining dinosaur tracks. The authors studied a range of larger tracks from t ...

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.

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 ...

Scientists find first dinosaur tracks on Arabian Peninsula

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May 21, 2008 | 4.7 / 5 (18) | 0

Scientists have discovered the first dinosaur tracks on the Arabian Peninsula. In the May 21 issue of the journal PLoS ONE, they report evidence of a large ornithopod dinosaur, as well as a herd of 11 sau ...

Trotting with emus, walk with dinosaurs

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Oct 25, 2006 | 2.7 / 5 (3) | 0

Scientists are watching emus to learn more about dinosaurs that once trotted along a long-lost U.S. coastline during the Middle Jurassic period.

Dinosaur tracks attract a crowd

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Jan 15, 2008 | 3 / 5 (4) | 0

More than 100 people gathered in Kane County, Utah, to see fossilized footprints pressed into the sandstone by dinosaurs 185 million years ago.

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 ...

New England site yields dino track

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Aug 20, 2006 | 3.8 / 5 (4) | 0

A worker digging up bedrock in Connecticut unearthed a three-toed, fossilized dinosaur footprint that is thought to be from a dilophosaurus.

A case of mistaken dino-identity

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Jan 13, 2009 | 4 / 5 (7) | 1

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.

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.

'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 ...

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.