Tag: dinosaurs

A University of Alberta researcher has identified some of the strongest evidence ever found that dinosaurs could paddle long distances. ...

The current leading theory that explains the mass extinction of the dinosaurs - once the dominant group of animals on ...

Some 200 million years ago  half of all life on Earth went extinct, thus providing a window of opportunity for ...

(c) Miquel Crusafont Catalan Palaeontology Institute Paleontologists were stoked by the discovery of hundreds of fossilized dinosaur eggs, belonging to ...

Images of fossils belonging to the enantiornithine genus. Feathers on the primitive bird's hind legs provide evidence of an extra ...

Artist impression of Archaeopteryx lithographica by Carl Buell Today's birds' ancestors descended from non-avian dinosaurs according to a recent paper ...

A team of international scientists from Britain and the United States have devised a new mathematical formula, considered more accurate than previous methods, ...

During the tumultuous  Cretaceous and Jurassic periods if you could only choose one word to describe the world, it would've certainly be ...

A remarkable paleontological discovery surfaced from China recently, after scientists reported they've found fossils belonging to the Yutyrannus huali,a very close ...

Paleontologists have recently named two new horned dinosaur species, closely related to the famous Triceratops, which were dug up from a ...

Although the T. rex isn't the largest carnivorous dinosaur to have roamed Earth, a new study that used computer models ...

Scientists at  Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania have set on a path that promises to revolutionize the way paleontology is studied, and ...

New Jersey will soon be home to the closest thing to Jurassic Park so far, after yesterday the only press ...

The art of science is most evident when one manages to accurately assert truths about a given fact with little ...

Armageddon can wait, NASA's in charge for a little while longer. The space agency recently released to the general public ...

It wasn't just a devastating asteroid that killed off all the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Scientists from Boston University ...

In a paper published in the journal Nature, Chinese paleontologists have detailed their impressions on the finding of a chicken-sized ...

Around 200 million years ago, the Earth was still one big continent - the great Pangaea. Around that time came, ...

A recent discovery made by Argentinian paleontologist uncovered wasp cocoons hidden inside the 70 million year old fossilized egg of ...

Were dinosaurs slow and lazy, as you see most reptiles today, or active and quick like you see them in ...

I recently came across this poll, which was conducted about a year ago. Ok, so it's not extremely actual, but ...

In a remarkable discovery, reported Friday in the journal Science by a team of paleontologists headed by Robert Reisz of ...

The previous 5 mass extinctions wiped out more than three quarters of the world's animals, and if things continue to ...

An international team of researchers from the University of Leicester (UK), and the Geological Institute, Beijing (China) managed to identify ...

In 1980, Luis Alvarez and his team shocked the whole world when they announced their theory that an asteroid impact ...

And when I say that snake was big that’s how it was- really BIG. It had the length of a ...

How the dinosaurs appeared is clear, but it's not so clear how they dissapeared. One thing's for sure, they ruled ...

Archaeopteryx has been the subject of many controversies, but it is now widely considered as the world's oldest bird; however, ...

Birds evolved from lizards, (nearly) all scientists agree about that, but strangely enough there is still a debate around when ...

This debate has been indecided for years and years and there are serious evidence which backs up both theories. Recently ...