News tagged with velociraptor
Leaping lizards, dinosaurs have a message for robots: Get a tail
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers including undergraduate and graduate students studied how lizards manage to leap successfully even when they slip and stumble, ...
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Dinosaurs with killer claws yield new theory about flight
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from Montana State University's Museum of the Rockies has revealed how dinosaurs like Velociraptor and Deinonychus used their famous killer claws, leading to a new hypothesis on ...
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Dec 14, 2011 |
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New raptor dinosaur takes a licking keeps on ticking
Raptor dinosaurs like the iconic Velociraptor from the movie franchise Jurassic Park are renowned for their "fear-factor." Their terrifying image has been popularized in part because members of this group possess a greatly ...
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Sep 19, 2011 |
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Body temperatures of dinosaurs measured for the first time
(PhysOrg.com) -- Were dinosaurs slow and lumbering, or quick and agile? It depends largely on whether they were cold or warm blooded. When dinosaurs were first discovered in the mid-19th century, paleontologists ...
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Jun 23, 2011 |
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The eyes have it: Dinosaurs hunted by night
The movie Jurassic Park got one thing right: Those velociraptors hunted by night while the big plant-eaters browsed around the clock, according to a new study of the eyes of fossil animals. The study will ...
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Apr 14, 2011 |
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First-ever single-claw dinosaur fossil found in China
Dr. Xing Xu, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his collaborators, described a new dinosaur that was one of the smallest known and also one ...
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Mar 30, 2010 |
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Students discover new species of raptor dinosaur (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new species of dinosaur, a relative of the famous Velociraptor, has been discovered in Inner Mongolia by two PhD students.
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Mar 19, 2010 |
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Study challenges bird-from-dinosaur theory of evolution - was it the other way around?
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides yet more evidence that birds did not descend from ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs, experts say, a ...
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Feb 09, 2010 |
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Fossil shelved for a century reworks carnivore family tree
More than a hundred years after its discovery, the limbs and vertebrae of a fossil have been pulled off the shelf at the American Museum of Natural History to revise the view of early carnivore lifestyles. ...
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Dec 22, 2009 |
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Mini Dinosaurs Prowled North America (w/Video)
Massive predators like Albertosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex may have been at the top of the food chain, but they were not the only meat-eating dinosaurs to roam North America, according to Canadian researchers w ...
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Mar 16, 2009 |
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