New tool shows dinosaurs lighter than thought
June 6th, 2012 - 3:01 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 6 (IANS) Scientists have developed a tool to measure the weight and size of dinosaurs precisely and discovered they are not as heavy as previously thought.
Biologists used ... Read more...
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Scientists discover T. Rex’s feathered kin
April 8th, 2012 - 3:45 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, April 8 (IANS) Paleontologists have known that small dinosaurs had bird-like feathers, but now three specimens of new tyrannosauroid (T. Rex family) show that at least one much larger ... Read more...
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Dinosaurs lived in water, claims scientist
April 4th, 2012 - 1:10 am ICT by IANS
London, April 3 (IANS) Dinosaurs were too big and heavy to support themselves on dry land and must have lived in water, a scientist has claimed.Professor Brian J Ford said ... Read more...
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Asteroid hurtles past Earth
April 2nd, 2012 - 9:35 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 2 (IANS) Earth had a near miss from an 150-foot asteroid that was detected only two weeks ago, it was revealed Monday.The space rock, 2012 EG5, flew past ... Read more...
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Scientist unravels secret of T.rex’s fearsome snarl
March 19th, 2012 - 1:05 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, March 19 (IANS) The most fearsome feature of any T. rex's full-sized model is its array of massive flesh-ripping, bone-crushing teeth. But scientists have now discovered that beyond the ... Read more...
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Jurassic-era fleas sucked blood from dinosaurs
March 1st, 2012 - 2:59 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, March 1 (IANS) Fossils discovered in China have revealed the existence of giant blood-sucking fleas dating back to the mid-Jurassic era, when dinosaurs still lived on Earth, according to ... Read more...
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New asteroid could hit earth in 2040
February 29th, 2012 - 4:27 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 29 (IANS) A new asteroid, identified by NASA, could potentially hit the earth Feb 5, 2040, even though it is much smaller than the one -- nine miles ... Read more...
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Jagged teeth lent cutting edge to T. Rex ferocity
February 29th, 2012 - 2:15 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, Feb 29 (IANS) Serrated teeth lent an unparalled cutting-edge to T. Rex, the most fearsome dinosaur, says a new study.
Until recently, most researchers only noted the varying size ... Read more...
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How did dinosours have sex?
February 25th, 2012 - 12:36 am ICT by IANS
London, Feb 24 (IANS) It is well-known that dinosaurs ruled the earth at some stage of life and they could only do this by being good at mating. But have ... Read more...
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140-150 mn-year-old dinosaur footprints found in Beijing
January 9th, 2012 - 10:12 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Jan 9 (IANS) Scientists, studying pre-historic life, have said that several hundred fossilised footprints found in a Beijing suburb are those of dinosaurs who lived about 140 to 150 ... Read more...
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Skin bones helped huge dinos survive
November 30th, 2011 - 5:16 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, Nov 30 (IANS) Bones within the skin of some of the largest dinosaurs ever to roam our planet might have stored vital minerals to help them survive and bear ... Read more...
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Dinosaur herd migrated over huge distances
October 27th, 2011 - 5:59 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 27 (IANS) A herd of dinosaurs that lived 145 million years ago migrated huge distances to find food, a study says.Herds of Camarasaurus, a long-necked herbivore known as ... Read more...
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Tiny fossil part reveals biggest-ever toothed pterosaur
October 16th, 2011 - 3:25 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 16 (IANS) Paleontologists have identified a small fossil fragment as being part of the biggest-ever toothed pterosaur, a winged dinosaur.David Martill and David Unwin from the Universities of ... Read more...
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China to have dinosaur museum
June 28th, 2011 - 10:20 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, June 28 (IANS) China is building a $1.85 million dinosaur museum in northwest Gansu province.Construction is underway on the dinosaur museum scheduled to open next May, reported Xinhua.Located in ... Read more...
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Maradona calls FIFA ‘dinosaur’
June 5th, 2011 - 10:15 am ICT by IANS
Dubai, June 5 (IANS) Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona has called FIFA a "dinosaur", saying the global soccer body was controlled by people who did not understand the game.Maradona, who ... Read more...
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Dinosaurs probably had lice: Study
April 6th, 2011 - 12:57 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, April 6 (ANI): A new study opens up the possibility that dinosaurs were early - perhaps even the first - animal hosts of lice.Scientists, who used fossils and molecular data to ... Read more...
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Brit girl, 5, digs up 160 million-year-old fossil with plastic seaside spade
March 18th, 2011 - 5:58 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 18 (ANI): A little girl in Britain has discovered a huge 160 million-year-old fossil after digging with a children's seaside spade.Emily Baldry, 5, unearthed the 130lb (60kg) specimen as she ... Read more...
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Fossils of oldest flying reptile found in Texas
March 2nd, 2011 - 4:31 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, March 2 (IANS) Fossils discovered in Texas from a flying reptile known as pteranodon that died 89 million years ago may be the oldest of its kind in the ... Read more...
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T-Rex was wily, not fearsome predator
February 23rd, 2011 - 3:14 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 23 (IANS) T-Rex was more of an opportunistic feeder as wily as a hyena, rather than the fearsome predator of popular and cinematic imagination.Paleontologists John "Jack" Horner, curator from the ... Read more...
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Dinos witnessed Oz bushfires that appeared 50mn yrs earlier than thought
February 16th, 2011 - 12:25 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Feb 16 (ANI): A new study has found that bushfires appeared in Australia more than 50 million years earlier than thought, which means that dinosaurs were witness to these events.Using fossilised ... Read more...
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600 mn-year-old plant fossils found in China
February 14th, 2011 - 4:42 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Feb 14 (IANS) Paleontologists in China have unearthed thousands of pieces of plant fossils dating back to about 600 million years, officials said.A spokesman with the government of Xiuning county in ... Read more...
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Small, large dinosaurs existed peacefully
February 4th, 2011 - 5:12 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 4 (IANS) A new research has revealed that large and small dinosaurs co-existed peacefully.
University of Manchester scientists used computers to simulate tracks left by dinosaurs in various types of ... Read more...
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Thanks to ‘Goldilocks effect’, dinos left footprints at the perfect time
February 4th, 2011 - 11:47 am ICT by ANI
London, Feb 4 (ANI): A new study has found that thanks to something called a 'Goldilocks effect,' dinosaurs left lasting footprints only when conditions were just right."By using computer modelling, we were ... Read more...
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Dinosaurs survived mass extinction by 700,000 years
January 28th, 2011 - 2:20 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, Jan 28 (IANS) A fossilised dinosaur bone unearthed in New Mexico shows that dinosaurs survived mass extinction by 700,000 years, according to a new dating method.Many paleontologists believe the catastrophic event, ... Read more...
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160mn-yr-old pterodactyl fossil solves dino sex riddle
January 21st, 2011 - 12:49 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 21 (ANI): Scientists from the Universities of Leicester, Lincoln and the Geological Institute, Beijing, have finally solved the mystery of sex between pterodactyls - flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs ... Read more...
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Pterosaurs were 10 times heavier than biggest birds: Study
January 19th, 2011 - 11:51 am ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 19 (ANI): Pterosaurs-dinosaur-era flying reptiles-were nearly ten times heavier than the already known heaviest bird Kori Bustard, suggests a new study.Calculations based on footprints left behind by pterosaurs, also known ... Read more...
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3D scan used to create model of the colossal sea monster
December 23rd, 2010 - 9:18 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
London, Dec 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Scientists want to recreate a creature that got perished with the dinosaurs.
Scientists are currently using 3D CT scanner to picture the fossilized skull of the colossal ... Read more...
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200mn-yr-old fossils reveal how snakes’ syringe-like venom fangs evolved
November 19th, 2010 - 5:12 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 19 (ANI): Scientists are analysing fossils of a 200 million-year-old reptile of the late Triassic period to understand how syringe-like teeth evolved in snakes that exist today.Although not closely related ... Read more...
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How giant dinos soared the high skies
November 15th, 2010 - 1:03 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 15 (ANI): Scientists have revealed that the huge pterosaur dinosaurs were capable of flying and used the combined power of its legs and winged arms as 'engines' to push itself ... Read more...
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Would you buy a book that has only questions in its 164 pages?
November 14th, 2010 - 3:44 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 14 (ANI): An academic in America has come up with a book that consists of nothing but questions in its 164 pages.US academic Padgett Powell came up with the book ... Read more...
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Human evolution occurred ‘3mn yrs earlier than previously thought’
November 6th, 2010 - 1:21 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 06 (ANI): A new statistical model has suggested that evolutionary divergence of humans from chimpanzees likely occurred some 8 million years ago rather than the 5 million year estimate widely ... Read more...
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200 mn years old skeleton of giant dinosaur discovered
October 31st, 2010 - 4:56 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 31 (IANS) Scientists claim to have discovered the first intact skeleton of a dinosaur that is an ancestor to the sauropod, the largest creature ever to walk the planet.
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A Fifth of Species Slides Toward Extinction; Sixth Mass Extinction Underway?
October 28th, 2010 - 3:07 am ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Oct 27 (THAINDIAN NEWS) One in every five of the world’s pant and animals species are at risk of extinction at this time, according to a shocking new study. The new count ... Read more...
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Scientists fear another round of mass extinction (Lead)
October 27th, 2010 - 3:02 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 27 (IANS) One in five of the world's mammals, birds and fish are now endangered, indicating a possible sixth round of mass extinction in the Earth's history, scientists say.The researchers ... Read more...
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Scientists fear mass extinction has begun
October 27th, 2010 - 2:28 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 27 (IANS) One in five of the world's mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians are under threat of extinction, a study says.The research found that the a growing number of ... Read more...
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