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October 4, 2020
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Dinosaur Feather Study Debunked

Sep. 30, 2020 — A new study provides substantial evidence that the first fossil feather ever to be discovered does belong to the iconic bird-like dinosaur, Archaeopteryx. This debunks a ...
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Evidence That Prehistoric Flying Reptiles Probably Had Feathers Refuted

Sep. 28, 2020 — Experts have examined the evidence that prehistoric flying reptiles called pterosaurs had feathers and believe they were, in ...

Dino Teeth Research Prove Giant Predatory Dinosaur Lived in Water

Sep. 21, 2020 — A discovery of more than a thousand dinosaur teeth proves beyond reasonable doubt that Spinosaurus, the giant predator made famous by the movie Jurassic Park III as well as the BBC documentary Planet ...

Bird Beak Revealed by Laser Imaging Informs Early Beak Function and Development

Sep. 21, 2020 — Confuciusornis was a crow-like fossil bird that lived in the Cretaceous ~120 million years ago. It was one of the first birds to evolve a beak. Early ...
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Study Sheds Light on the Evolution of the Earliest Dinosaurs

July 29, 2020 — Geological evidence suggests the known dinosaur groups diverged early on, supporting the traditional dinosaur family ...

Biosignatures May Reveal a Wealth of New Data Locked Inside Old Fossils

July 13, 2020 — Step aside, skeletons -- a new world of biochemical ''signatures'' found in all kinds of ancient fossils is revealing itself to paleontologists, providing a new avenue for ...

Fossil Jawbone from Alaska Is a Rare Case of a Juvenile Arctic Dromaeosaurid Dinosaur

July 8, 2020 — A small piece of fossil jawbone from Alaska represents a rare example of juvenile dromaeosaurid dinosaur remains from the Arctic, according to a new ...

Famous 'Jurassic Park' Dinosaur Is Less Lizard, More Bird

July 7, 2020 — From movies to museum exhibits, the dinosaur Dilophosaurus is no stranger to pop culture. Many probably remember it best from the movie 'Jurassic Park,' where it's depicted as a ...

A Tiny Ancient Relative of Dinosaurs and Pterosaurs Discovered

July 6, 2020 — Dinosaurs and pterosaurs may be known for their remarkable size, but a newly described species that lived around 237 million years ago suggests that they originated from extremely small ancestors. ...

Different Tracks, Same Dinosaurs: Researchers Dig Deeper Into Dinosaur Movements

July 1, 2020 — Using X-ray-based technology, researchers uncover shared subsurface movement patterns between birds and dinosaurs, adding a new dimension of fossil track ...

Asteroid Impact, Not Volcanoes, Made the Earth Uninhabitable for Dinosaurs

June 29, 2020 — Modelling of the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago shows it created a world largely unsuitable for dinosaurs to live ...

Tiny Japanese Dinosaur Eggs Help Unscramble Cretaceous Ecosystem

June 26, 2020 — A research team has excavated over 1300 eggshell fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Ohyamashimo Formation of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Over 96% of these fossils, including numerous fragments, four ...

First Dinosaur Eggs Were Soft Like a Turtle's

June 17, 2020 — New research suggests that the first dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs -- a finding that contradicts established thought. The study analyzed the eggs of two vastly different non-avian dinosaurs and ...

Tracking Australia's Gigantic Carnivorous Dinosaurs

June 17, 2020 — North America had the T. rex, South America had the Giganotosaurus and Africa the Spinosaurus - now evidence shows Australia had gigantic predatory ...

Ancient Crocodiles Walked on Two Legs Like Dinosaurs

June 11, 2020 — An international research team has been stunned to discover that some species of ancient crocodiles walked on their two hind legs like dinosaurs and measured over three metres in length. University ...

Scientists Discover What an Armored Dinosaur Ate for Its Last Meal

June 3, 2020 — More than 110 million years ago, a lumbering 1,300-kilogram, armor-plated dinosaur ate its last meal, died, and was washed out to sea in what is now northern Alberta. This ancient beast then sank ...

Chinese Pterodactyl Wings Its Way to the United Kingdom

May 28, 2020 — The first ever specimen of a pterodactyl, more commonly found in China and Brazil, has been found in the United ...

In Stressed Ecosystems Jurassic Dinosaurs Turned to Scavenging, Maybe Even Cannibalism

May 27, 2020 — Among dinosaurs of ancient Colorado, scavenging and possibly cannibalism were responses to a resource-scarce environment, according to a new ...

Finding a Genus Home for Alaska's Dinosaurs

May 27, 2020 — A re-analysis of dinosaur skulls from northern Alaska suggests they belong to a genus Edmontosaurus, and not to the genus recently proposed by scientists in ...

Dinosaur-Dooming Asteroid Struck Earth at 'Deadliest Possible' Angle

May 26, 2020 — New simulations have revealed the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs struck Earth at the 'deadliest possible' ...

T. Rex Was a Champion Walker, Highly Efficient at Lower Speeds

May 13, 2020 — A new study suggests that long legs evolved among the biggest dinosaurs to help them conserve energy as they ambled along searching for prey, rather than for speed as previously ...

Can We Really Tell Male and Female Dinosaurs Apart?

May 12, 2020 — Scientists worldwide have long debated our ability to identify male and female dinosaurs. Now, research has shown that despite previous claims of success, it's very difficult to spot differences ...

Prehistoric Sea Creatures Evolved Pebble-Shaped Teeth to Crush Shellfish

May 8, 2020 — Ichthyosaurs were marine reptiles during the time of the dinosaurs, and scientists don't know much about their ancestry. But by CT-scanning the fossil of one of the first ichthyosaurs, ...

Arctic Edmontosaurus Lives Again: A New Look at the 'Caribou of the Cretaceous'

May 6, 2020 — A new study further explores the proliferation of the most commonly occurring duck-billed dinosaur of the ancient Arctic as the genus Edmontosaurus. The findings reinforce that the hadrosaurs -- ...
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