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The caring side of dinosaur dads: Male beasts liked nothing more than playing with their children
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
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16 May 2013 To us, they will always be the flesh-ripping monsters with six-inch teeth and terrifying claws. But to their offspring, male dinosaurs were great big softies who liked nothing better than playing dad. Some carnivorous species had such a
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The carnivorous dinosaurs who turned vegetarian
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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As a result, diet is one of the key pieces of information that palaeontologists will seek to determine of a new find in order to learn about the animal and how it fitted into an ancient ecosystem. Naturally the jaws and teeth tend to be a bit of a
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India's first dinosaur fossil rediscovered
Jabalpur :: India | 4 months ago
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More than a century after it went missing, the fossil of what has been regarded as India's first recorded dinosaur has been rediscovered in Kolkata, according to a top scientific journal. The recovery of Titanosaurus Indicus, or the Indian Tital
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'Stampeding' dinosaurs were swimming
Brisbane :: Australia | 4 months ago
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The University of Queensland's PhD candidate Anthony Romilio led the study of thousands of small dinosaur tracks at Lark Quarry Conservation Park in Queensland's central west...If that was the case we would expect to see a much flatter impression of
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Which type of dinosaur meat would be the tastiest?
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 5 months ago
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If the Jurassic Park bar and grill started serving up some of their cloned dinosaurs for dinner, which ones would go on the menu and which ones would be safe from human consumption? PopSci asked Montana State University paleontologist David
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How senses of smell, hearing and balance evolved in dinosaurs
Ulaanbaatar :: Mongolia | 5 months ago
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The team, including PhD student Stephan Lautenschlager and Dr Emily Rayfield of the University of Bristol, found that the senses of smell, hearing and balance were well developed in therizinosaurs and might have affected or benefited from an enlarged
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The Sauron dinosaur: Palaeontologists name beast after Tolkien's demonic creation after it is identified from just its eye-socket
Bologna :: Italy | 6 months ago
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This artist's impression shows Sauroniops pachytholus in the background feeding on a young Spinosaurus. Scientists estimate that the creature was 40ft long Study leader Andrea Cau, of the Museo Geologico Giovanni Capellini in Bologna, Italy, said the
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New dinosaur named after Sauron from Lord of the Rings
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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Further analysis showed that the bone likely belonged to a carcharodontosaurid an offshoot of the familiar Allosaurus . Given its unique domed skull, the researchers concluded that it was in fact a newly discovered species, one they've decided to
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Some dinosaurs followed Copea€™s Rule and became larger over time
Washington :: DC :: USA | 7 months ago
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35 Washington: In the evolutionary long run, small critters tend to evolve into bigger beastsat least according to the idea attributed to paleontologist Edward Cope, now known as Cope's Rule. Using the latest advanced statistical modeling methods, a
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The dinosaurs in your garden
London :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
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Dave Hone The dinosaurs first arose in the Late Triassic period about 225m years ago. No specific ancestral species is identified, but we recognise that there is a distinct lineage of animals that can be grouped together by shared features of their
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