News articles tagged with 'dinosaur' (Page 15)
Why dinosaurs had fowl breath?
— 7 Nov 2007 08:08 | Geology and palaeontologyScientists have discovered how dinosaurs used to breathe in what provides clues to how they evolved and how they might have lived. The University of Manchester team, comprising biologists…
Palaeontologists discover ancient Jurassic mammal
— 1 Nov 2007 05:25 | Geology and palaeontologyA team of Chinese and American scientists has discovered a new mammal from the 165 million-year-old lakebeds of the Jurassic Period in Northern China. The find is reported in the 1…
Emory palaeontologist reports discovery of carnivorous dinosaur tracks in Australia
— 19 Oct 2007 18:46 | Geology and palaeontologyThe first fossil tracks belonging to large, carnivorous dinosaurs have been discovered in Victoria, Australia, by palaeontologists from Emory University, Monash University and the Museum…
A toothy new duck-billed dinosaur from Utah
— 3 Oct 2007 16:00 | Geology and palaeontologyThe newest dinosaur species to emerge from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument had some serious bite, according to researchers from the Utah Museum of Natural History at the…
Paper describes new dinosaur species found near Choteau
— 24 Sep 2007 20:22 | Geology and palaeontologyA dinosaur skeleton found 24 years ago near Choteau has finally been identified as a new species that links North American dinosaurs with Asian dinosaurs. The dinosaur would have weighed…
Velociraptor had feathers
— 20 Sep 2007 20:30 | Geology and palaeontologyA new look at some old bones have shown that velociraptor, the dinosaur made famous in the movie Jurassic Park, had feathers. A paper describing the discovery, made by palaeontologists…
Height or flight?
— 6 Sep 2007 20:06 | Geology and palaeontologyPalaeontologists have long theorised that miniaturisation was one of the last stages in the long series of changes required in order for dinosaurs to make the evolutionary 'leap' to…
T. rex quicker than Becks, say scientists
— 22 Aug 2007 19:59 | Geology and palaeontologyT. rex may have struggled to chase down speeding vehicles as the movie Jurassic Park would have us believe but the world's most fearsome carnivore was certainly no slouch, research…
Rise of dinosaurs in Late Triassic more gradual than once thought
— 20 Jul 2007 10:09 | Geology and palaeontologyFossils discovered in the oft-painted arroyos of northern New Mexico show for the first time that dinosaurs and their non-dinosaur ancestors lived side by side for tens of millions…
Definitive evidence of a swimming dinosaur
— 24 May 2007 18:09 | Geology and palaeontologyAn extraordinary underwater trackway with 12 consecutive prints provides the most compelling evidence to-date that some dinosaurs were swimmers. The 15-meter-long trackway, located…