Jurassic Park

Major Event Leads To New Dinosaur Species

Eric — Tue, 17 May 2011 11:32:58 +0000

Dinosaur species has been found that could be the missing link between old and new dinosaur species.

This dinosaur provides a link between what paleontologists consider “early” and “later” dinosaurs. There’s a gap in the fossil record between the oldest known dinosaurs, which walked or ran on their hind legs about 230 million years ago in Argentina and Brazil, and other predatory dinosaurs that lived much later. Daemonosaurus chauliodus helps fill in a blank in dinosaur history.

Carnegie Museum Scientist Has Won A Humboldt Research Award

Eric — Mon, 09 May 2011 21:03:27 +0000

Congratulations to Dr. Luo of Carnegie. Dr. Luo has won the prestigious Humboldt Research Award.

Dr. Luo’s research focuses on mammals that lived during the age of dinosaurs, and he and his collaborators have discovered many new fossil mammals during the last decade that have yielded fresh insight into the origins and the earliest evolution of mammals.

Sensational Fossil Illuminates Birth Of Dinosaurs

Eric — Mon, 09 May 2011 03:17:41 +0000

Could this dinosaur, dating over 250 million years old be the oldest known dinosaur yet unearthed?

He said that the crucial remnants believed to be fossils of bone fragments – had been secured, but the German authorities called on amateur enthusiasts to stay away from the site, for fear of damaging potential further finds.

Big Dinosaur Tracks Found Need Sparwood

Eric — Sun, 08 May 2011 07:16:02 +0000

Some coal miners stumbled upon sauropod tracks near a mine in Sparwood, B.C.

“It’s one of the major groups of dinosaurs that there was no record of until recently, and it was always a mystery as to why sauropods were not found in Canada,” McCrea said. “We’ve been doing paleontology for over 100 years and not a bit of bone or scrap of tooth, and now we have a track-way.”

Swedens Loch Ness Monster Caught On Tape

Eric — Sun, 08 May 2011 07:11:04 +0000

Could it be a remnant of the past? A real-life lost world? Or merely a trick of photography…

“On Thursday at 12:21 pm, we filmed the movements of a live being. And it was not a pike, nor a perch, we’re sure of that,” Gunnar Nilsson, the head of a shopkeepers’ association in Svenstavik, told AFP.

Dinosaur Fossil May Be New Species

Eric — Fri, 06 May 2011 04:47:38 +0000

A new dinosaur species may have been discovered in East China.

“It is possibly a new species of dinosaur and a big discovery since the third large-scale exploration in January 2008,” said Xu Xing, another expert from the academy.

Prehistoric Giant Goose With Teeth

Eric — Thu, 05 May 2011 21:12:48 +0000

A GIANT Goose with teeth was recently uncovered. With all these birds with teeth, does anyone still doubt dinosaurs evolved into birds?

The skull, discovered on the Isle of Sheppey off the southeast coast of England in the Thames Estuary, belonged to a huge ancient bird in the extinct genus Dasornis, which had a whopping 16-foot (5-meter) wingspan.

“Imagine a bird like an ocean-going goose almost the size of a small plane!” said Gerald Mayr of the Senckenberg Research Institute in Germany and a member of the team that studied the skull. “By today’s standards, these were pretty bizarre animals, but perhaps the strangest thing about them is that they had sharp, tooth-like projections along the cutting edges of the beak.”

Two Headed Reptile Fossil

Eric — Tue, 03 May 2011 21:44:26 +0000

The first example of a two-headed reptile from the age of dinosaurs has been found.

Palaeontologists have found a tiny dinosaur-era reptile with two heads—the first time the extremely rare developmental anomaly has been found in a fossil.

Fossil Suggests Platypus Lived In Dinosaur Times

Eric — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:20:27 +0000

Scientists have found fossil evidence that a relative of the Platypus lived during the time of dinosaurs.

“But the recent discoveries made in the last week have shown with the high resolution CT scanner in Texas that some of these jaws that they found, they’re actually in the same family, ornithorhynchidae, as the modern platypus and this is absolutely outstanding,” he said.

Dinosaurs Superiority Attributed To Luck

Eric — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:27:04 +0000

An interesting read regarding the evolution of dinosaurs during the Triassic period.

They found no difference in the rates at which dinosaurs and crurotarsans were evolving. This was surprising as, if dinosaurs were truly ‘superior’ or ‘out-competing’ crurotarsans in the Triassic, they should be expected to evolve faster. Instead, crurotarsans were keeping pace

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