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September 9, 2016

Palaeontologist Discovers New Species of 200 Million-Year-Old 'British' Marine Reptile

June 14, 2016 — A new type of ichthyosaur, an extinct marine reptile alive at the same time as the dinosaurs, has been identified by a palaeontologist from a fossil found in an old quarry in ... read more

Mammals Began Their Takeover Long Before the Death of the Dinosaurs

June 7, 2016 — New research reports that, contrary to popular belief, mammals began their massive diversification 10 to 20 million years before the extinction of the ... read more

Antarctic Fossils Reveal Creatures Weren't Safer in the South During Dinosaur Extinction

May 26, 2016 — A study of more than 6,000 marine fossils from the Antarctic shows that the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs was sudden and just as deadly to life in the polar regions. Previously, ... read more

Early Armored Dinosaur from Texas Lacked Cousin's Club-Tail Weapon, but Had a Nose for Danger

May 24, 2016 — First-ever CT scans of the early armored dinosaur Pawpawsaurus campbelli reveal that although the Texas dino lacked its cousin's club-tail it had a sharp nose for danger. A relative of ... read more

Strange Sea-Dwelling Reptile Fossil Hints at Rapid Evolution After Mass Extinction

May 23, 2016 — For a long time, scientists believed that the early marine reptiles that came about after the great Permian-Triassic mass extinction evolved slowly, but the recent discovery of a strange new fossil ... read more

Rapid Rise of the Mesozoic Sea Dragons

May 20, 2016 — In the Mesozoic, the time of the dinosaurs, from 252 to 66 million years ago, marine reptiles such as ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs were top predators in the oceans. But their origins and early rise ... read more

New Horned Dinosaur Species With 'Spiked Shield'

May 18, 2016 — A chance fossil discovery in Montana a decade ago has led to the identification of an audacious new species of horned dinosaur. What sets Spiclypeus shipporum apart from other horned dinosaurs such ... read more

New Evidence Connects Dung Beetle Evolution to Dinosaurs

May 4, 2016 — Researchers have found an evolutionary connection between dinosaurs and dung beetles. Scientists uncovered the first molecular evidence indicating that dung beetles evolved in association with ... read more

Research on Modern Day Animals Reveals Insights Into Extinct Animals

May 3, 2016 — Powerful head and neck retractions of vertebrate carcasses, including dinosaur fossils, have puzzled researchers as to whether they occurred just before an animal's death in agony, or after. Now ... read more

Newly Discovered Baby Titanosaur Sheds Light on Dinosaurs' Early Lives

Apr. 29, 2016 — Long-necked sauropod dinosaurs include the largest animals ever to walk on land, but they hatched from eggs no bigger than a soccer ... read more

Newly Discovered Titanosaurian Dinosaur from Argentina, Sarmientosaurus

Apr. 26, 2016 — Scientists have discovered Sarmientosaurus musacchioi, a new species of titanosaurian dinosaur, based on an complete skull and partial neck fossil unearthed in Patagonia, Argentina, according to a ... read more

Mammal-Like Reptile Survived Much Longer Than Thought

Apr. 25, 2016 — Researchers have uncovered dozens of fossilized teeth in Kuwajima, Japan, and identified this as a new species of tritylodontid, an animal family that links the evolution of mammals from reptiles. ... read more

A Curious Exodus from Europe for Mesozoic Dinosaurs

Apr. 25, 2016 — Researchers have used 'network theory' for the first time to visually depict the movement of dinosaurs around the world during the Mesozoic Era -- including a curious exodus from ... read more

Leg-Wing Cooperation in Baby Birds, Dinosaurs Is Key Transition in Origin of Flight

Apr. 21, 2016 — New research based on high-resolution x-ray movies reveals that despite having extremely underdeveloped muscles and wings, young birds acquire a mature flight stroke early in their development, ... read more

Giant Dinosaurs Hatched With Adult-Like Proportions

Apr. 21, 2016 — Analysis of a new dinosaur fossil suggests that the largest species ever known to walk the Earth was born with adult-like proportions, perhaps allowing it to be more independent than some other ... read more

Fossil Teeth Suggest That Seeds Saved Bird Ancestors from Extinction

Apr. 21, 2016 — When the dinosaurs became extinct, plenty of small bird-like dinosaurs disappeared along with giants like Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops. Why only some of them survived to become modern-day birds ... read more

Paleontologist Finds That Ligaments in Some Dinosaurs’ Necks Helped Them Graze More Efficiently

Apr. 20, 2016 — Ligaments in the long necks of certain sauropods probably helped them graze more efficiently, according to ... read more

Dinosaurs 'Already in Decline' Before Asteroid Apocalypse

Apr. 18, 2016 — Dinosaurs were already in an evolutionary decline tens of millions of years before the meteorite impact that finally finished them off, new research has ... read more

Dino Dinner, Dead or Alive

Apr. 14, 2016 — Many meat-eating dinosaurs would have been expert scavengers, relying on carrion to make up a significant portion of their calorific intake, new research ... read more

240-Million-Year-Old Fossils Indicate How Dinosaurs Grew from Hatchlings to Adults

Apr. 5, 2016 — Paleontologists have found that muscle-scarred fossil leg bones of one of the closest cousins of dinosaurs that lived approximately 240 million years ago can shine new light on a large unknown: How ... read more
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