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Portable 3-D laser technology preserves Texas dinosaur's rare footprint
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Nov 04, 2009 |
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Using portable 3D laser technology, scientists have electronically preserved a rare 110 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint that was previously excavated and built into the wall of a bandstand at a Texas courthouse ...
Australian scientists hail triple dinosaur find
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Jul 03, 2009 |
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Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.
Discovery raises new doubts about dinosaur-bird links
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Jun 09, 2009 |
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Researchers at Oregon State University have made a fundamental new discovery about how birds breathe and have a lung capacity that allows for flight - and the finding means it's unlikely that birds descended from any known ...
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.
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Beaked, bird-like dinosaur tells story of finger evolution
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Jun 17, 2009 |
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James Clark, the Ronald B. Weintraub Professor of Biology in The George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, and Xu Xing, of the Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology ...
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.
Unusual fish-eating dinosaur had crocodile-like skull
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Jan 14, 2008 |
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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 ...
Polygamy, Paternal Care in Birds Linked to Dinosaur Ancestors
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Dec 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sure, they’re polygamous, but male emus and several other ground-dwelling birds also are devoted dads, serving as the sole incubators and caregivers to oversized broods from multiple mothers. ...
Despite their heft, many dinosaurs had surprisingly tiny genomes
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Mar 07, 2007 |
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They might be giants, but many dinosaurs apparently had genomes no larger than that of a modern hummingbird.
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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 ...
2,000 Theropod teeth
Nov 03, 2005 |
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A paleontologist at Washington University in St. Louis has concocted a mathematical scheme for identifying dinosaurs based upon measurements of their copious Mesozoic dental droppings. His method could help ...
Largest carnivorous dinosaur tooth in Spain described
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Jun 22, 2009 |
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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 ...
Dinosaurs declined before mass extinction
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Apr 30, 2009 |
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Dinosaurs were dying out much earlier than the mass extinction event 65 million years ago, Natural History Museum scientists report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society journal today.
Dinosaur whodunit: Solving a 77-million-year-old mystery
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Nov 13, 2008 |
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It has all the hallmarks of a Cretaceous melodrama. A dinosaur sits on her nest of a dozen eggs on a sandy river beach. Water levels rise, and the mother is faced with a dilemma: Stay or abandon her unhatched offspring to ...
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