News articles tagged with 'sauropod'
New 'thunder-thighs' dinosaur discovered
— 23 Feb 2011 17:28 | Geology and palaeontologyA new dinosaur named Brontomerus mcintoshi, or 'thunder-thighs' after its enormously powerful thigh muscles, has been discovered in Utah, USA. The new species is described in a paper…
Morrison Natural History Museum discovers baby sauropod tracks
— 2 Nov 2010 12:57 | Geology and palaeontologyStaff at the Morrison Natural History Museum have again discovered infant dinosaur footprints in the foothills west of Denver, Colorado, near the town of Morrison. Dating from the Late…
Found: First complete remains of early sauropod dinosaur
— 29 Oct 2010 13:27 | Geology and palaeontologyScientists have discovered in China the first complete skeleton of a pivotal ancestor of Earth's largest land animals - the sauropod dinosaurs. The new species, tentatively dubbed Yizhousaurus…
Dinosaur research: Chew and stay small
— 11 May 2010 20:29 | Geology and palaeontologyWhy were the sauropod dinosaurs able to get so much larger than today's terrestrial animals? A research group led by the University of Bonn seems to have solved this puzzle. According…
A shrunken giant
— 4 May 2010 09:28 | Geology and palaeontologyIn 1895, the sister of an eccentric palaeontologist called Franz Baron Nopcsa discovered small dinosaur bones on their family estate in Transylvania. Nopcsa interpreted these as the…
Dinosaur skull changed shape during growth
— 1 Apr 2010 09:45 | Geology and palaeontologyThe skull of a juvenile sauropod dinosaur, rediscovered in the collections of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History, illustrates that some sauropod species went through drastic…
New dinosaur rears its head
— 18 Mar 2010 12:33 | Geology and palaeontologyThe remains of a new herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, discovered near the world-famous Carnegie Quarry in Dinosaur National Monument, may help explain the evolution of the largest land…
Fossil snake from India fed on hatchling dinosaurs
— 18 Mar 2010 12:33 | Geology and palaeontologyThe remains of an extraordinary fossil unearthed in 67-million-year-old sediments from Gujarat, western India provide a rare glimpse at an unusual feeding behaviour in ancient snakes…
'Anaconda' meets 'Jurassic Park': Study shows ancient snakes ate dinosaur babies
— 18 Mar 2010 12:29 | Geology and palaeontologySixty-seven million years ago, when dinosaur hatchlings first scrambled out of their eggs, their first - and last - glimpse of the world might have been the open jaws of a 3.5-metre-long…
New dinosaur discovered head first, for a change
— 24 Feb 2010 12:14 | Geology and palaeontologyA team of palaeontologists has discovered a new dinosaur species they're calling Abydosaurus, which belongs to the group of gigantic, long-necked, long-tailed, four-legged, plant-eating…