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Jurassic pain: Giant ‘flea-like’ insects plagued dinosaurs 165 million years ago 2 May 2012 | 08:27 am
It takes a gutsy insect to sneak up on a huge dinosaur while it sleeps, crawl onto its soft underbelly and give it a bite that might have felt like a needle going in -- but giant "flea-like" animals, ...
Were dinosaurs undergoing long-term decline before mass extinction? 2 May 2012 | 05:41 am
Despite years of intensive research about the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs about 65.5 million years ago, a fundamental question remains: Were dinosaurs already undergoing a long-term decline befo...
Egg-laying beginning of the end for dinosaurs 18 Apr 2012 | 02:17 pm
Their reproductive strategy spelled the beginning of the end: The fact that dinosaurs laid eggs put them at a considerable disadvantage compared to viviparous mammals. Researchers believe they now kno...
Duck-billed dinosaurs endured long, dark polar winters 12 Apr 2012 | 05:19 am
Duck-billed dinosaurs that lived within Arctic latitudes approximately 70 million years ago likely endured long, dark polar winters instead of migrating to more southern latitudes. ScienceDaily: Dino...
Could ‘advanced’ dinosaurs rule other planets? 12 Apr 2012 | 04:05 am
New scientific research raises the possibility that advanced versions of T. rex and other dinosaurs -- monstrous creatures with the intelligence and cunning of humans -- may be the life forms that evo...
Eggs of enigmatic dinosaur in Patagonia discovered 11 Apr 2012 | 02:20 am
An Argentine-Swedish research team has reported a 70-million-year-old pocket of fossilized bones and unique eggs of an enigmatic birdlike dinosaur in Patagonia. ScienceDaily: Dinosaur News http://www...
Newly discovered close relative of T. rex is largest known feathered dinosaur 6 Apr 2012 | 05:34 am
Palaeontologists have known for more than a decade that some small dinosaurs had bird-like feathers, mainly thanks to beautifully preserved fossils from northeastern China. Now three specimens of a ne...
When dinosaurs roamed a fiery landscape 30 Mar 2012 | 04:47 am
New research reveals dinosaurs may have faced an unexpected hazard: fire. Scientists have shown that during the Cretaceous fire was much more widespread than previously thought. ScienceDaily: Dinosau...
T. rex’s killer smile revealed 19 Mar 2012 | 02:04 am
One of the most prominent features of life-size models of Tyrannosaurus rex is its fearsome array of flesh-ripping, bone-crushing teeth. New research shows that the T. rex’s front teeth gripped and pu...
Some mammals used highly complex teeth to compete with dinosaurs 15 Mar 2012 | 06:20 am
New research shows that at least one group of small mammals, the multituberculates, actually flourished in the last 20 million years of dinosaurs’ reign and survived their extinction. ScienceDaily: D...
