Chinese paleontologists discover large feathered dinosaur
April 6th, 2012 - 2:43 am ICT by BNO News
BEIJING, CHINA (BNO NEWS) -- Paleontologists in northeastern China have discovered fossils of a large feathered dinosaur, disproving a widely believed theory that large dinosaurs were featherless, according to research published in ... Read more...
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Scientists identify long lost cousin of T. rex in China
April 1st, 2011 - 1:23 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Apr 1 (ANI): Scientists have identified a new species of gigantic theropod dinosaur, said to be a close relative of T. rex, from fossil skull and jawbones discovered in China.According to ... Read more...
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Newly discovered dino ‘may be father of Triceratops’
February 1st, 2011 - 3:31 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 1 (ANI): A newly discovered species of dinosaur appears to be related to the horned dinosaur species, Triceratops.The new species, called Titanoceratops weighed nearly 15,000 pounds and a massive eight-foot-long ... Read more...
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Dinos were alive for ‘700,000 yrs after the mass extinction’
January 28th, 2011 - 11:48 am ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 28 (ANI): Researchers at University of Alberta have discovered a dinosaur fossil in New Mexico that indicates they were alive about 700,000 years after the mass extinction.Larry Heaman and colleagues ... Read more...
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Dinos were pretty picky when it came to where they roamed about
October 16th, 2010 - 5:25 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 16 (ANI): Scientists have determined that different species of North American dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous period 65 million years ago occupied different environments separated by just a few miles.Hadrosaurs ... Read more...
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Researchers Elated By Discovery Of New Predatory Dinosaur In Romania
August 31st, 2010 - 7:44 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
August 31, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Researchers have uncovered a new fossil in Romania which shows evidence of a new kind of predatory dinosaur that roamed the area almost ... Read more...
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New dinosaur species found in China
August 29th, 2010 - 9:45 am ICT by IANS
Beijing, Aug 29 (IANS) Scientists in China have identified a new species of dinosaur in a mountainous region in Shandong province, experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said.
Though fossils of ... Read more...
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Plant-eating dinosaur with largest horns unearthed
May 29th, 2010 - 5:28 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, May 29 (IANS) A new species of horned dinosaur unearthed in Mexico has larger horns - up to four-feet-long - than any other species.
It has given scientists fresh insights into ... Read more...
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New horned dinosaur discovered
May 29th, 2010 - 2:02 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 29 (ANI): The discovery of a new horned dinosaur, Medusaceratops lokii, has been announced by a scientist at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History.The newly identified plant-eating dinosaur, approximately 20 ... Read more...
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New dinosaur species found in China
March 20th, 2010 - 10:55 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, March 20 (IANS) Paleontoligists in China Saturday claimed to have found the skeleton of a new species of carnivorous dinosaur that believed to have lived about 80 million years ago.
Experts have ... Read more...
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Chinese ravine may hold clues to what killed the dinosaurs
January 26th, 2010 - 1:07 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, January 26 (ANI): A team of scientists is of the opinion that a 980-foot-long ravine in the Chinese countryside may hold clues to what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.According ... Read more...
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Scientists discover oldest known relative of tyrannosauroid
November 5th, 2009 - 1:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, November 5 (ANI): With the help of an ultramodern imaging technique, a team of scientists has recognized a long forgotten fossil skull in the collections of the Natural History Museum in ... Read more...
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Ice-free summers in ancient Arctic may help predict future trends
July 10th, 2009 - 2:56 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 10 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have obtained evidence for ice-free summers with intermittent winter sea ice in the Arctic Ocean during the Late Cretaceous period, which should help ... Read more...
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90-mln yr old Armadillo-like crocodile fossil found in Brazil
July 9th, 2009 - 1:20 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 9 (ANI): Scientists have found the ancient fossil of a crocodile coated in armadillo-like body armor in Brazil, dating back to 90 million years.According to a report in National ... Read more...
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Discovery of cat-sized dino suggests mini dinosaurs prowled North America
March 17th, 2009 - 12:36 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, March 17 (ANI): New analysis of the fossil of a dinosaur that was found in 1982 in Canada has suggested that it was smaller than a modern day housecat, which ... Read more...
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Laser imaging investigates how fat or thin dinos were
February 21st, 2009 - 12:44 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 21 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Manchester, UK, are using laser imaging to investigate how fat or thin Tyrannosaurus Rex and his fellow dinosaurs were.Karl Bates and his ... Read more...
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Asiatic turtle migrated to America over a tropical Arctic
February 2nd, 2009 - 2:34 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, Feb 2 (IANS) Fossils of a tropical fresh water Asian turtle that surfaced in Arctic Canada suggest they migrated to North America not around Alaska but directly across a freshwater sea ... Read more...
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Ancient turtle rode freshwater wave to migrate from Asia to North America
February 2nd, 2009 - 1:01 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 2 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have found a surprise fossil of a tropical, freshwater, Asian turtle in Arctic Canada, which suggests that the ancient animal migrated from ... Read more...
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Dinos that didn”t chew their food grew huge
October 10th, 2008 - 1:06 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 10 (ANI): A new research has suggested that dinosaurs known as sauropods, which were the largest land animals that ever lived, grew huge and were an evolutionary success in ... Read more...
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87-million-year-old praying mantis found in amber
April 26th, 2008 - 12:52 pm ICT by admin
Washington, April 26 (ANI): The discovery of an 87-million-year-old praying mantis, encased in amber in Japan, has made scientists to speculate that it might be a missing link between mantises from ... Read more...
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69 million-year-old crab fossil may rewrite evolutionary history of the species
April 23rd, 2008 - 2:30 pm ICT by admin
Washington, April 23 (ANI): The discovery of a 69 million-year-old crab fossil in Mexico, with an oversized right claw, a feature previously thought to appear more than 20 million years later, ... Read more...
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Birds may have co-existed with marine and terrestrial dinosaurs
February 24th, 2008 - 2:31 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Feb 24 (ANI): The discovery of the oldest known bird fossils in New Zealand, along with other remains from the same area, has fuelled speculations that the birds co-existed with marine ... Read more...
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72 million yr old dinosaur used built in trumpet to woo females
February 13th, 2008 - 3:56 pm ICT by admin
London, Feb 13 (ANI): Scientists have discovered the fossils of a new species of dinosaur in Mexico, which possessed a built in horn or trumpet to woo females.The dinosaur was excavated ... Read more...
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Insects may have caused dinosaur extinction, suggests new study
January 4th, 2008 - 11:52 am ICT by admin
Washington, Jan 4 (ANI): A new study by scientists has suggested that dinosaurs might have been wiped off the face off the Earth by biting, disease-carrying insects over a long period of ... Read more...
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105 feet tall giant plant eating dino discovered in Argentina
November 14th, 2007 - 2:18 am ICT by admin
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