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Feathers fly over new dinosaur find
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Mar 18, 2009 |
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The discovery of a petite, plant-eating dinosaur with primitive plumage could mean that the dinosaur from which all others evolved had feather-like protrusions, said a study released Wednesday.
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Origin of birds confirmed by exceptional new dinosaur fossils
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Sep 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chinese scientists today reveal the discovery of five remarkable new feathered dinosaur fossils which are significantly older than any previously reported. The new finds are indisputably older ...
Dino-not-so-soaring
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Jun 22, 2009 |
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The largest animals ever to have walked the face of the earth may not have been as big as previously thought, reveals a paper published today in the Zoological Society of London's Journal of Zoology.
In search of the original flapper... new theory on evolution of flight
Apr 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Manchester scientist has put forward a controversial new way of tackling a typically Darwinian chicken and egg question - the evolution of flapping flight in birds.
Fossil feathers preserve evidence of color
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Jul 09, 2008 |
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The traces of organic material found in fossil feathers are remnants of pigments that once gave birds their color, according to Yale scientists whose paper in Biology Letters opens up the potential to dep ...
Dinosaurs survived 2 mass extinctions and 50 million years before taking over the world and dominating ecosystems
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Sep 30, 2008 |
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Reporting in Biology Letters, Steve Brusatte, Professor Michael Benton, and colleagues at the University of Bristol show that dinosaurs did not proliferate immediately after they originated, but that their ...
Inside the First Bird, Surprising Signs of a Dinosaur
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Oct 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The raptor-like Archaeopteryx has long been viewed as the archetypal first bird, but new research reveals that it was actually a lot less “bird-like” than scientists had believed.
Dinosaurs May Have Been Smaller Than We Thought: New Study
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Jun 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For millions of years, dinosaurs have been considered the largest creatures ever to walk on land. While they still maintain this status, a new study suggests that some dinosaurs may actually have weighed ...
Study of polar dinosaur migration questions whether dinosaurs were truly the first great migrators
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Oct 21, 2008 |
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Contrary to popular belief, polar dinosaurs may not have traveled nearly as far as originally thought when making their bi-annual migration.
Polar dinosaurs may have taken shorter treks
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Oct 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Contrary to popular belief, polar dinosaurs may not have traveled nearly as far as originally thought when making their bi-annual migration.
T.rex 'followed its nose' while hunting
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Oct 29, 2008 |
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Although we know quite a bit about the lifestyle of dinosaur; where they lived, what they ate, how they walked, not much was known about their sense of smell, until now.
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