News tagged with velociraptor

Mini Dinosaurs Prowled North America (w/Video)

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Mar 16, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (15) | 0

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 ...

Velociraptor had feathers

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Sep 20, 2007 | 4.9 / 5 (44) | 0

A new look at some old bones have shown that velociraptor, the dinosaur made famous in the movie Jurassic Park, had feathers. A paper describing the discovery, made by paleontologists at the American Museum ...

Trivia time: Tom Turkey, T. rex related

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Nov 21, 2007 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 1

The modern-day turkey on American tables and the extinct Tyrannosaurus rex have one thing in common: their wishbone.

Height or flight? Fossil answers some questions about evolution of flight in dinosaurs, raises others

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Sep 06, 2007 | 4.4 / 5 (29) | 0

Paleontologists have long theorized that miniaturization was one of the last stages in the long series of changes required in order for dinosaurs to make the evolutionary “leap” to take flight and so become ...

Origin of birds confirmed by exceptional new dinosaur fossils

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Sep 25, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (17) | 1

(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 ...

Australian scientists hail triple dinosaur find

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Jul 03, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (15) | 1

Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.

Why dinosaurs had fowl breath

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Nov 07, 2007 | 4.6 / 5 (30) | 1

Scientists have discovered how dinosaurs used to breathe in what provides clues to how they evolved and how they might have lived.

Researchers find an Australian dinosaur with South American heritage

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Jun 11, 2008 | 4.7 / 5 (11) | 0

Australia's links to South America have just gotten a bit closer, but not due to economic forces, rather fossil forces.

Bird-like Dinosaur Is Oldest Raptor Discovered in South America

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Oct 12, 2005 | 4.5 / 5 (15) | 0

Researchers have discovered the 90-million-year-old fossil remains of a previously unknown dinosaur species in Patagonia. Buitreraptor (pronounced bwee-tree-rap-tor) gonzalezorum -- the oldest member ever ...

Only second Jurassic dinosaur ever found in Antarctica

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Dec 10, 2007 | 4.5 / 5 (16) | 0

A new genus and species of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic has been discovered in Antarctica. The massive plant-eating primitive sauropodomorph is called Glacialisaurus hammeri and lived about 190 million years ago.

Six-tonne T. rex quicker than Becks, say scientists

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Aug 22, 2007 | 4.5 / 5 (20) | 0

T. rex may have struggled to chase down speeding vehicles as the movie Jurassic Park would have us believe but the world’s most fearsome carnivore was certainly no slouch, research out today suggests.

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