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Released: 15-Aug-2017 12:00 PM EDT
Unique Imaging of a Dinosaur’s Skull Tells Evolutionary Tale
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Researchers using Los Alamos’ unique neutron-imaging and high-energy X-ray capabilities have exposed the inner structures of the fossil skull of a 74-million-year-old tyrannosauroid dinosaur nicknamed the Bisti Beast in the highest-resolution scan of tyrannosaur skull ever done.

7-Aug-2017 12:05 PM EDT
First Winged Mammals From the Jurassic Period Discovered
University of Chicago Medical Center

Two 160 million-year-old mammal fossils discovered in China show that the forerunners of mammals in the Jurassic Period evolved to glide and live in trees. With long limbs, long hand and foot fingers, and wing-like membranes for tree-to-tree gliding, Maiopatagium furculiferum and Vilevolodon diplomylos are the oldest known gliders in the long history of early mammals.

27-Jun-2017 2:00 PM EDT
Gigantic Crocodile with T. Rex Teeth Was a Top Land Predator of the Jurassic in Madagascar
PeerJ

Little is known about the origin and early evolution of the Notosuchia, hitherto unknown in the Jurassic period. New research on fossils from Madagascar, published in the peer-reviewed journal PeerJ by Italian and French paleontologists, begin to fill the gap in a million-year-long ghost lineage.

Released: 27-Jun-2017 10:05 AM EDT
Sensitive Faces Helped Dinosaurs Eat, Woo and Take Temperature, Suggests Study
University of Southampton

Dinosaurs' faces might have been much more sensitive than previously thought, and crucial to tasks from precision eating and testing nest temperature to combat and mating rituals, according to a University of Southampton study.

6-Jun-2017 6:45 AM EDT
World’s ‘First Named Dinosaur’ Reveals New Teeth with Scanning Tech
University of Warwick

Pioneering technology has shed fresh light on the world’s first scientifically-described dinosaur fossil – over 200 years after it was first discovered - thanks to research by WMG at the University of Warwick and the University of Oxford’s Museum of Natural History.

1-Jun-2017 4:05 PM EDT
How the Famous Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Bone Bed Came to Be
PeerJ

The Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry is the densest collection of Jurassic dinosaur fossils. Since its discovery in the 1920s, numerous hypotheses have been proposed to explain the origin of the quarry. Were the dinosaurs poisoned? Did they die due to drought? Were they trapped in quick sand? A new study suggests that the quarry represents numerous mortality events which brought the dinosaurs to the site over time, rather than a single fatal event.

Released: 22-May-2017 1:05 PM EDT
Weathering of Rocks a Poor Regulator of Global Temperatures
University of Washington

Observations from the age of the dinosaurs to today shows that chemical weathering of rocks changes less with global temperatures than believed. The results upend the accepted idea for how rocks regulate a planet's temperature over millions of years.

15-May-2017 9:05 AM EDT
The Secrets Behind T-Rex’s Bone Crushing Bites: Researchers Find T-Rex Could Crush 8,000 Pounds
Florida State University

A Florida State- Oklahoma State research team found that T. rex could pulverize bones, chomping down with nearly 8,000 pounds of force.

8-May-2017 12:05 PM EDT
Antibiotic-Resistant Microbes Date Back to 450 MYA, Well Before the Age of Dinosaurs
Massachusetts Eye and Ear

Leading hospital “superbugs,” known as the enterococci, arose from an ancestor that dates back 450 million years — about the time when animals were first crawling onto land (and well before the age of dinosaurs), according to a new study.

   
30-Apr-2017 12:05 AM EDT
New Dinosaur Species Increases the Diversity of the 'Whiplash Dinosaurs'
PeerJ

New sauropod species is named Galeamopus pabsti by the same team which recently reinstated the brontosaurus as a distinct genus.

17-Apr-2017 8:00 AM EDT
What Can We Learn from Dinosaur Proteins?
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)

Researchers recently confirmed it is possible to extract proteins from 80-million-year-old dinosaur bones. The discovery sparks hopes for new insights about evolution and environmental change and could even offer useful clues for drug discovery or the search for extraterrestrial life.

10-Apr-2017 9:05 AM EDT
Discovery of Early, ‘Croc-Like’ Reptile Sheds New Light on Evolution of Dinosaurs
University of Birmingham

A new species of ancient reptile has been described by scientists at the University of Birmingham, filling a critical gap in the fossil record of dinosaur cousins and suggesting that some features thought to characterise dinosaurs evolved much earlier than previously thought.

11-Apr-2017 3:45 PM EDT
Virginia Tech Scientists Discover Early Dinosaur Cousin Had a Surprising Croc-Like Look
Virginia Tech

A Virginia Tech paleobiologist's latest discovery of Teleocrater rhadinus has overturned popular predictions.

Released: 28-Mar-2017 10:05 AM EDT
New Research Disproves Common Assumption on Cranial Joints of Alligators, Birds, Dinosaurs
University of Missouri Health

Researchers from the University of Missouri School Of Medicine recently discovered that although alligators, birds and dinosaurs have a similar skull-joint shape, this does not guarantee that their movements are the same.

Released: 13-Feb-2017 10:05 AM EST
A Kiss of Death -- Mammals Were the First Animals to Produce Venom
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

CT scans of fossils of the pre-mammalian reptile, Euchambersia, shows anatomical features, designed for venom production

Released: 10-Feb-2017 7:05 AM EST
Giant Flying Reptile Ruled Ancient Transylvania
University of Portsmouth

The creature has a considerably shorter and stronger neck with larger muscles than the long graceful necks of others in its species.

Released: 23-Jan-2017 2:05 PM EST
80-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Collagen Confirmed
North Carolina State University

Utilizing the most rigorous testing methods to date, researchers from North Carolina State University have isolated additional collagen peptides from an 80-million-year-old Brachylophosaurus.

Released: 13-Jan-2017 11:45 AM EST
How the Darkness and the Cold Killed the Dinosaurs
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Climate scientists now reconstructed how tiny droplets of sulfuric acid formed high up in the air after the well-known impact of a large asteroid and blocking the sunlight for several years, had a profound influence on life on Earth.

Released: 6-Jan-2017 2:05 PM EST
Dinosaur Eggs Took a Long Time to Hatch; This May Have Contributed to Their Doom
Newswise Trends

New research on the teeth of fossilized dinosaur embryos indicates that the eggs of non-avian dinosaurs took a long time to hatch--between about three and six months.

Released: 3-Jan-2017 4:05 PM EST
Research on Dinosaur Embryos Reveals That Eggs Took 3 to 6 Months to Hatch
American Museum of Natural History

New research on the teeth of fossilized dinosaur embryos indicates that the eggs of non-avian dinosaurs took a long time to hatch--between about three and six months.



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