Dinosaurs
For decades, paleontologists have quibbled over the absence of herbivorous dinosaurs in equatorial regions during the Late Triassic. Although these giant plant eaters first emerged in the Middle Triassic, some 230 million years ago, their absence in low latitudes persisted for almost 30 million years, even after they had become abundant to the north and south. Now, scientists think they know why.
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If there's one thing Saudi Arabia isn't known for, it's dinosaurs. While it doesn't change that image, scientists have now unearthed the first record of dinosaurs in the Arabian Peninsula.
In the summer of 2009, Kevin Terris, a then-newly graduated high school senior, made an amazing discovery.
The Maniraptorans were small, meat-eating dinosaurs, and lived approximately 150 million years ago. Theropods first appeared 230 million years ago and possessed many early vestiges of birds, including hollow, air-filled bones, wishbones, and feathers.
A new study of 160-million year old fossilized remains found in China was published in Science, revealing new details on mammals and their relationship to Earth's history.
Horned dinosaurs such as the Triceratops have a new, bulbous-nosed cousin from present-day Utah to welcome into the family. Dubbed Nasutoceratops titusi, the creature roamed the North American continent during the Late Cretaceous period.
Unlocking the mysterious of the past can be difficult, but that hasn't stopped one intrepid scientist from the University of Bristol. Using biomechanical analysis and bone histology, Qi Zhao, now part of the Institute for Vertebrate Paleontology in Beijing, has figured out how a dinosaur graduated from walking on four legs to two.
A detailed X-ray analysis of Archaeopteryx, an important dinosaur-bird hybrid linking the two, shows that the oldest-known bird actually sported a varied plumage, and wasn't simply all black as previously thought.
When you think of Newcastle, Wyoming, what do you picture? Probably the last thing you might think of is a tyrannosaurus rex feeding ground, but that's what it was in the late Cretaceious period. Now, victims of the T. rex's bite have been unearthed in a recent excavation, including a rare, nearly perfectly-complete Triceratops skeleton.
A fossil of a new species of bird is the oldest ever found.
We can add another dinosaur species to the roster, with a newly identified type of bone-headed creature discovered in Alberta, Canada. It's especially significant considering scientists believe it may be the oldest bonehead dinosaur to be found in North America, and maybe even the world.
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New research led by the University of Alberta in Canada shows that the Microraptor, a four-winged dinosaur, had a more extensive diet than previously thought. A close examination of fossilized remains shows that the dinosaur had an affinity for fish, and the teeth to back it up.
A group of researchers say that they uncovered a new species of dinosaur that existed 90 million years ago in Madagascar.
