Duck-billed dino crests not linked to sense of smell
...e brain changed very little from their non-crested dinosaur ancestors, and that the primary region of the sense of smell was located right in front of the eyes and coincidentally, that's where it is in birds, crocodiles, mammals and basically all four-legged animals." Evans studied fossils from a group of he...FSU biologist says new dinosaur is oldest cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex
...ologist Gregory M. Erickson sliced up some ancient dinosaur bones uncovered in China to help an international ...eberg in that area. "China has been a hot spot for dinosaur fossils since the 1990s," he said. Widely publicized research by Erickson who also is known as an e...Smallest Triceratops skull ever found provides clues to dinosaur's growth
... a button - at least to its mother, a three-horned dinosaur called Triceratops that could weigh as much as 10 tons and had one of the largest skulls of any land animal on the planet. Visitors to the University of California, Berkeley's Valley Life Sciences Building now can judge for themselves. A cast of the ...Magdalenian Girl is a woman and therefore has oldest recorded case of impacted wisdom teeth
...such as the first exhibition of recently described dinosaur species. When Henry Field, then curator of Physical Anthropology at The Field Museum, acquired Magdalenian Girl in 1926, it was hailed as one of the most significant acquisitions the museum ever made. On the first day the precious specimen was exhib...Mass extinctions a threat from outer space or our own planet's detox?
... the stuff of Hollywood. It seems that every kid's dinosaur book ends with a bang. But are they the real killers and are they solely responsible for every mass extinction on earth? There is scant evidence of impacts at the time of other major extinctions e.g., at the end of the Permian, 250 million years ago...Gigantic meat-eating dinosaur discovered
...yrannosaurus rex. After four years of working in a dinosaur quarry in Argentina, we discovered that we had a n...or family might have been able to hunt the largest dinosaur that ever lived Argentinosaurus, the 40 meter (125 foot long) plant-eater which shared its habitat ...'Banana-jawed' fossil mammal linked to rare sound-producing skill
...d this mammal's unusual jaw may come from studying dinosaur models. In particular, he said, a number of museums have built models of dinosaur sound-producing skeletal cavities that have enabled scientists to reconstruct the possible sounds ma...Study shows our ancestors survived 'Snowball Earth'
... types of life. "It's the same thing as looking at dinosaur fossils, except these fossils are at the molecular scale. You are looking at the molecular skeletons of carbon molecules, such as cholesterol, held within oil droplets," he said. This is not the first time biomarkers indicating that eukaryotes and cy...Sensational find: The mini-dinosaurs from the Harz Mountains
... available in German . When unusually small dinosaur fossils were found in a quarry on the northern edg...be published on 8 June in the journal 'Nature'. In dinosaur bones there are what are known as growth marks, similar to the annual rings on trees. When the dinos...Science researchers catch an early bird
...y be mentioned in the same breath as the feathered dinosaur quarries of Liaoning." "Thanks to Liaoning, we have a good idea of what was going on with land ecosystems around 125 million years ago, but not as much insight into what happened shortly after that, so Changma may be very significant in that regard,"...Early bird caught the fish: Fossils depict aquatic origins of birds 115 million years ago
...took modern birds through a watery path out of the dinosaur lineage. The report was co-authored by Peter Dodson of the University of Pennsylvania and his former students Hai-lu You of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Jerald Harris of Dixie State College of Utah and Matthew Lamanna of Carnegie Natu...Math and fossils resolve a debate on dinosaur metabolism
...this "inertial homeothermy" hypothesis is correct, dinosaur body temperature should increase with body size. ...esearchers used a model that provided estimates of dinosaur body temperature based on developmental growth trajectories inferred from juvenile and adult fossil ...Large dinosaurs were extremely hot in their day, UF study finds
...ine at about 108 degrees. Researchers determined dinosaur temperatures -- long a subject of debate in biolog...available fossil data on the growth rates of eight dinosaur species. Using a mathematical formula, they produced the first prediction of dinosaur body temperatu...Paleontologists establish first age distribution of non-avian dinosaur population
... have established the age structure of a non-avian dinosaur population. Using this information, they inferred ...rst found and partially excavated in 1910 by famed dinosaur hunter Barnum Brown of the American Museum of Natural History, who discovered it along the Red Deer ...Tyrannosaur survivorship -- tough times for teens
A massive dinosaur death bed in Alberta has helped map out the animal...standardized ecological life table for a non-avian dinosaur population. They selected fibulae or metatarsals from individuals and used growth line counts to est......ent of Triceratops, the well-known Late Cretaceous dinosaur distinguished by three horns and a massive parietal-squamosal frill. Our analysis is based on a growth series of ten skulls, ranging from a 38 cm long baby skull to adult skulls over 2 m long. Four growth stages correspond to a suite of ontogenetic...Good times ahead for dinosaur hunters, according to U of Penn scientist's dinosaur census
PHILADELPHIA The golden age of dinosaur discovery is yet upon us, according to Peter Dodso... to be found. His findings also add evidence that dinosaur populations were stable, and not on the decline, in the time shortly before their extinction 65 mill...Ancient birds flew on all-fours
...squirrels." The first fossil of the Jurassic-era dinosaur Archaeopteryx lithographica was discovered in Germany in 1861, two years after Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution in On The Origin of Species. Since then, eight additional specimens have been unearthed and Archaeopteryx is considered t......und in an exceptionally well preserved duck-billed dinosaur dug from the rocks of the Judith River Formation n...ite burrows in 17 samples of gut material from the dinosaur that most likely were made by tiny worms similar to annelids and nematodes that infest animals today...... that will allow its researchers to study the rare dinosaur skull up close. "This is a very dramatic beast," ...an that." The fossils from this large herbivorous dinosaur were first found by the Sternberg family, who were hired by the Geological Survey of Canada to compe...