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Dinosaur dung fertilizes planet, new research shows
Dinosaurs were, and large animals are, important not for the quantity of dung they produce, but for their ability to move long distances across landscapes, effectively mixing the nutrients, outline researchers in a new report. Strange & Offbeat: Fossils & … Continue reading
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Dinosaur blood? New research urges caution regarding fossilized soft tissue
Scientists have conducted experiments to accelerate degradation in keratinous tissues such as feathers, scales and hair in order to simulate the processes that occur over deep time as something becomes a fossil. Paleontology News — ScienceDaily
Mass extinctions led to low species diversity, dinosaur rule
Two of Earth’s five mass extinction events — times when more than half of the world’s species died — resulted in the survival of a low number of so-called ‘weedy’ species that spread their sameness across the world as the … Continue reading
Dinosaur evolution: Lumbering giants had agile ancestors
The best known sauropod dinosaurs were huge herbivorous creatures, whose brain structures were markedly different from those of their evolutionary predecessors, for the earliest representatives of the group were small, lithe carnivores. Paleontology News — ScienceDaily
Dinosaur evolution: Lumbering giants had agile ancestors
The best known sauropod dinosaurs were huge herbivorous creatures, whose brain structures were markedly different from those of their evolutionary predecessors, for the earliest representatives of the group were small, lithe carnivores. Strange & Offbeat: Fossils & Ruins News — … Continue reading
New dinosaur discovery suggests new species roosted together like modern birds
The Mongolian Desert has been known for decades for its amazing array of dinosaurs, immaculately preserved in incredible detail and in associations that give exceedingly rare glimpses at behavior in the fossil record. Paleontology News — ScienceDaily
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New species of sauropod dinosaur discovered in Tanzania
Paleontologists have identified a new species of titanosaurian dinosaur. Paleontology News — ScienceDaily
New dinosaur discovery suggests new species roosted together like modern birds
The Mongolian Desert has been known for decades for its amazing array of dinosaurs, immaculately preserved in incredible detail and in associations that give exceedingly rare glimpses at behavior in the fossil record. Strange & Offbeat: Fossils & Ruins News … Continue reading
New Species of Dinosaur Is the Largest Land Animal to Ever Walk the Earth
Diego Pol lying by large femur thigh bone fossil of thenew species find, One hundred million years ago, a colossal creature the size of a 737 thundered through the forests of South America, picking trees clean with its head extended … Continue reading
The first description of dinosaur fossils by Al-Andalusī in the twelfth century
Western sources refer to a few scholars who were the pioneers in describing huge fossilised animals that are now known to be the remains of the long extinct dinosaurs. Around 1677, the British scholar, Robert Plot, was widely believed to … Continue reading