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03/06/2020 / By Michael Alexander

Construction site turned dinosaur dig: Workers unearth 68-million-year-old Triceratops fossil

What started out as a simple construction job turned into a mission to find, document and retrieve the remains of a prehistoric giant. Builders tasked with excavating a site near a retirement community in Denver, Colorado, stumbled upon a partial skeleton, which was later identified by paleontologists as that of a large adult Triceratops. According […]

02/04/2020 / By Michael Alexander

A glimpse of the past: Photographer “reanimates” dinosaur skeletons through photographs

They may have died out 66 million years ago, but thanks to a photographer’s new series, dinosaurs such as the fearsome predator Tyrannosaurus rex and the imposing behemoth Triceratops are coming back to life. “I sought to really bring these animals to life,” Christian Voigt said about his project, which he has dubbed “Evolution.” According to Voigt, the project all […]

11/30/2019 / By Tracey Watson

“Thai”–rannosaurus rex? Fossils unearthed in Thailand reveal link to fearsome therapod

Dinosaur fans everywhere have a new reason to rejoice: the discovery of two brand new dinosaur species in Thailand. And the best part? They’re both distant cousins of that favorite of all dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex. The fossils of the two new species lay forgotten for decades after being discovered back in 1988 and 1993, respectively. […]

09/20/2019 / By Stephanie Diaz

Mammals started developing arms way before the dinosaurs, study reveals

The ancestors of modern mammals may have developed their unique forelimbs long before the first dinosaurs walked on this planet. This is according to a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers from The Field Museum of Natural History found evidence that early mammals evolved to have different forelimbs […]

09/06/2019 / By Edsel Cook

It turns out, dinosaurs also had great hearing – which made them even better hunters than previously thought

Birds possess sharp hearing, all the better to catch their prey. A new study on alligators suggests that the crocodilians share the same ability. And both groups of animals might have shared the same keen sense of hearing with dinosaurs. Birds are often described as feathery dinosaurs. Crocodilians are also considered to be the closest living relations […]

07/18/2019 / By Lance D Johnson

Climate change didn’t hurt the dinosaurs… they were thriving until the asteroid struck

The catastrophic asteroid that penetrated planet Earth approximately 66 million years ago caused intense and widespread volcanic activity. Observing geological evidence, today’s scientists largely agree that these natural and celestial forces are the reason dinosaurs were eliminated from the face of the planet at the end of the Cretaceous period. There is speculation, however, that […]

07/10/2019 / By Edsel Cook

Dino-discovery: Small T-Rex ancestor found in Utah

Researchers recently discovered the fossil remnants of an ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus rex. Unlike the star of Jurassic Park, this so-called “harbinger of doom” measures less than a third of the “king of tyrant lizards.” Moros intrepidus lived in Utah 97 million years ago. It only weighed 180 pounds and stood as tall as a […]

06/22/2019 / By Edsel Cook

AMAZING discovery: Perfectly preserved dinosaur skin impressions found in tiny raptor tracks 120 million years old

Researchers just struck paleontological gold in South Korea: They dug up a set of dinosaur footprints from the Cretaceous period. They retrieved samples of highly preserved skin impressions of the long-dead animal. They identified the ichnogenus of the dinosaur to be Minisauripus chuanzhuensis. The smallest known theropod (dinosaurs with hollow bones and limbs with three toes), Minisauripus was […]

09/29/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs also cooled Earth’s climate; more proof temperatures have ebbed and flowed over eons

The impact of the famous Chicxulub asteroid was strong enough to wipe out the gigantic dinosaurs that once roamed the earth, so it is reasonable to believe that such an impact would also have a significant effect on the planet’s atmosphere that could have lasted for many years. Now, however, scientists have discovered that it […]

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