Feathered Dinosaurs or Scaled Dinosaurs? Is the widespread concept of dinosaurs as big scaly lizards on its way out? New fossil findings suggest that paleontologists may have to rethink the idea. A recent discovery of an exceptionally well-preserved fossil of a meat-eating dinosaur shows evidence of having a fluffy feathered tail. The creature did not […]
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Paleontologists Take A Look At Dinosaur Arthritis
Dinosaur Arthritis Existed 150 Million Years Ago Palaeontologists from Bristol University, England have discovered that a degenerative condition similar to human arthritis existed 150 million years ago when the dinosaurs roamed the earth. Giant Marine Reptile Jaw Bone Discovered A fossilized jaw bone from a giant Pliosaurus dating back to the Upper Jurassic period was […]
Lighter Dinosaurs Make News
Lighter Dinosaurs Could Have Been 75% Lighter A team of international scientists have discovered that dinosaurs were actually much lighter in weight that previously though. Some of which weighed less than half of what was first estimated. Lighter Dinosaurs Calculated with Laser Technology Biologists at the University of Manchester in England together with U.S scientists […]
Dinosaur Flatulence Media Coverage Stinks
Dinosaur Flatulence Story Gets Blows Out of Proportion After the paper of a recent study about dinosaur flatulence was released by researchers David Wilkinson, Graeme Ruxton, and Euan Nisbet, several news outlets including FOX News, the Daily Mail, and Gawker blew the story way out of proportion. In the paper, the researchers speculated about the […]
Real Jurassic Park?
Clive Palmer Plans a Real Jurassic Park Clive Palmer, an eccentric mining billionaire from Queensland, Australia, has been rumored to be planning a real-life Jurassic Park tourist attraction, an add on for his $3 billion luxury Palmer resort on the Sunshine Coast in Southern Queensland, north of Brisbane. This isn’t the first ambitious goal (read: […]
Dinosaur Sex Revealed
Palaeontologists Discover Dinosaur Sex Theory Paleontologists think they have now figured out how dinosaurs had sex. That has long been a challenge for scientists, even though they have been studying the fossils for centuries. Soft tissue is rarely found in fossils and it is even more rare to find skeletons that were in the midst […]