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Dino tooth sheds new light on ancient riddle

Dino tooth sheds new light on ancient riddle

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created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Microscopic analysis of scratches on dinosaur teeth has helped scientists unravel an ancient riddle of what a major group of dinosaurs ate- and exactly how they did it!





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

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

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created May 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 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.


Unusual fish-eating dinosaur had crocodile-like skull

Unusual fish-eating dinosaur had crocodile-like skull

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created Jan 14, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 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 ...


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Researchers claim a third of dinosaurs might never have existed

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created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new ten-year study by US paleontologists suggests that up to a third of dinosaur fossils may have been incorrectly identified as new species, when they are actually juveniles of species ...


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

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

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created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 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 ...


Edmonton city site was dinosaur dining room

Edmonton city site was dinosaur dining room

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created Jun 29, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

A dinosaur bone bed in southwest Edmonton that served as a feeding area for the direct ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex has revealed that two dinosaurs, thought to have lived in different eras, actually lived ...


A misplaced dinosaur tooth may have been cannibalism

A misplaced dinosaur tooth may have been cannibalism

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created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- You don't have to be a paleontologist to suppose that way back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth chances were good meat eaters would dined on one of their own. Short of a time-machine trip back ...


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Tyrannosaurus rex may have been scavenger

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created Feb 18, 2006 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (15) | comments 0

U.S. researchers belive the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex might not have been a predator, but a scavenger.


T.rex's oldest ancestor identified

T.rex's oldest ancestor identified

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of the oldest-known relative of T.rex have been identified, more than 100 years after being pulled out of a Gloucestershire reservoir, according to research published in the Zoological Jo ...


Dinosaur reclassified as crocodile

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created Jun 23, 2005 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 0

University of California-Berkeley researchers say complete skeletons prove that Revueltosaurus callenderi was a relative of crocodiles -- not dinosaurs.


Largest carnivorous dinosaur tooth in Spain described

Largest carnivorous dinosaur tooth in Spain described

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created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers from the Teruel-Dinópolis Joint Palaeontology Foundation have compared an Allosauroidea tooth found in deposits in Riodeva, Teruel, with other similar samples. The palaeontologists have ...



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