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One of the biggest of the meat-eating dinosaurs may have hunted in packs according to experts in Argentina. At least seven T. rex-sized Mapusaurus roseae have been found together in the fossil-rich Patagonia region of the country. A pack hunting strategy might have enabled the two-...

FIRST EVER FOSSIL OF SLEEPING DINOSAUR FOUND IN CHINA Finding by American Museum of Natural History Palaeontologists Suggests Some Dinosaurs were Warm-Blooded like Birds. The first fossil of a sleeping non-avian dinosaur has been described by a pair of Ameri...

A spider relative called a harvestman trapped in amber could shed light on how arachnids were affected by the extinction that wiped out dinosaurs. The 100 million-year-old arachnid, which looks like it might have died last year, wandered though a dinosaur-dominated world. Though older foss...

One of the most exciting dinosaur finds to date comes from Scotland. In the Isle of Skye, Paul Booth and Dugald Ross, found a set of fossilised footprints. Inside one of the footprints was another tiny fossil footprint that has turned out to be one of the most exciting finds in Scotland. Dinosaur tra...

Chinese archaeologists have reported a major dinosaur find in northwest China's Ningxia Hui and Xinjiang Uygur autonomous regions. In the Lingwu excavation site of Ningxia, they spotted fossils from the diplodocus species that had never been unearthed in Asia before. In the Changji excavation...

The Norwegians have found Norway's first dinosaur using a oil exploration drill in the North Sea, at 2256 metres below the seabed. It had been there for nearly 200 million years, ever since the time the North Sea was an enormous alluvial plane. It is merely a coincidence that the remains of the old...

Startling new evidence from boreholes drilled into the 120-mile-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico indicate that the great impact, happened 300,000 years too early to have been the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. T...

Australian scientists have identified two new species of ancient marine reptile, similar to the Loch Ness monster, in Scotland, that swam in an Australian outback sea 115 million years ago. The reptiles, named Umoonasaurus and Opallionectes, belonged to the Plesiosaurs grou...

An operation to remove a 160-year-old dinosaur footprint from a Yorkshire beach has been successfully completed by divers of Scarborough SAC. The 66cm-long fossilised print, embedded in a 300kg sandstone boulder, was lifted from the beach at Burniston by the club's members. The Jurassic-p...

The largest fossil of sauropod dinosaur's shank has been recovered and the dinosaur has been classified as "Otogosaurus". The fossil was accidentally discovered by a girl during grazing in September 2003. After identification by experts from different countries, the fossil of ...

A new species of mini-dinosaur has been unearthed in a quarry at Oker, Germany. The creature was of the sauropod type - that group of long-necked, four-footed herbivores that were the largest of all the dinosaurs. But at just 1.7 to 6.2metres in length, this animal was considerably smaller than...

University of Alberta palaeontologist Dr. Phil Currie has a dinosaur bone yard in southwest Edmonton, Canada. Originally discovered in the late 1980s by an Edmonton sculptor walking his dog, the site was left largely unexcavated until this summer when Currie and his field school students be...

With its big, hockey puck-sized eyes, shortened face and nubby horns, it was probably as cute as a button - at least to its mother, a three-horned dinosaur called Triceratops that could weigh as much as 10 tons and had one of the largest skulls of any land animal on the planet. Visitors to the Univer...

Remains from a 95-million-year-old marine creature with nubs for legs is clarifying how some lizards shed their limbs as they crept through evolutionary time and morphed into slinky snakes. Described in the current issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, the snake-like lizard had a sm...

About 290 million years ago, lizard like creatures about the size of a pig roamed the landscape that would become the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness, US. A hiker discovered their tracks in 2001 in the Gunnison and White River National Forests and told officials at the Denver Museum of Nature...

Palaeontologists have uncovered the first dinosaur remains in Lebanon, adding evidence to the theory that millions of years ago the Middle East was covered with forests where giant reptiles roamed. Writing in the German journal Naturwissenschaften, Eric Buffetaut of France's National Ce...

China's fossil hunter -- a rock star of palaeontology Xu Xing doesnt know how many new species of dinosaurs he has discovered, saying he has lost count. In the unsexy world of palaeontology, Xu is perhaps the closest thing the science has to a rock star. [url=http://www.physorg.com/news103514995...

The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm is home to exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur tracks, some displaying skin impressions. These tracks, along with hundreds of fossil fish, plants, rare dinosaur remains, invertebrates traces and important sedimentary structures, sh...

Work is underway at the site of a proposed multi-million dollar dinosaur museum in outback Queensland. The Australian Age of Dinosaurs is planning a world-class museum just outside of Winton, in the state's central west, and is about to build a fossil preparation area and a road on the site. [url=ht...

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Dinosaur Hunting Dinosaurs ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 12 ) (Preview)	General news	117	48540	Jun 7 11:03 2017 by Blobrana
One of the biggest of the meat-eating dinosaurs may have hunted in packs according to experts in Argentina. At least seven T. rex-sized Mapusaurus roseae have been found together in the fossil-rich Patagonia region of the country. A pack hunting strategy might have enabled the two-...
Dinosaur Sleeping Dinosaur ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 11 ) (Preview)	General news	104	72082	May 10 10:59 2017 by Blobrana
FIRST EVER FOSSIL OF SLEEPING DINOSAUR FOUND IN CHINA Finding by American Museum of Natural History Palaeontologists Suggests Some Dinosaurs were Warm-Blooded like Birds. The first fossil of a sleeping non-avian dinosaur has been described by a pair of Ameri...
Dinosaur Dinosaur extinction ( 1 2 3 4 5 ) (Preview)	General news	43	22821	Jan 21 16:19 2016 by Blobrana
A spider relative called a harvestman trapped in amber could shed light on how arachnids were affected by the extinction that wiped out dinosaurs. The 100 million-year-old arachnid, which looks like it might have died last year, wandered though a dinosaur-dominated world. Though older foss...
Dinosaur Dinosaur Footprints ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 6 ) (Preview)	General news	58	58552	Mar 27 12:15 2017 by Blobrana
One of the most exciting dinosaur finds to date comes from Scotland. In the Isle of Skye, Paul Booth and Dugald Ross, found a set of fossilised footprints. Inside one of the footprints was another tiny fossil footprint that has turned out to be one of the most exciting finds in Scotland. Dinosaur tra...
Dinosaur Dinosaurs ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 27 ) (Preview)	General news	263	74204	Jun 29 11:04 2017 by Blobrana
Chinese archaeologists have reported a major dinosaur find in northwest China's Ningxia Hui and Xinjiang Uygur autonomous regions. In the Lingwu excavation site of Ningxia, they spotted fossils from the diplodocus species that had never been unearthed in Asia before. In the Changji excavation...
Dinosaur Deepest Dinosaur (Preview)	General news	2	2322	Jun 17 20:38 2006 by Blobrana
The Norwegians have found Norway's first dinosaur using a oil exploration drill in the North Sea, at 2256 metres below the seabed. It had been there for nearly 200 million years, ever since the time the North Sea was an enormous alluvial plane. It is merely a coincidence that the remains of the old...
Dinosaur Crater Chicxulub event ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 7 ) (Preview)	Meteorite News	65	62598	May 15 17:36 2017 by Blobrana
Startling new evidence from boreholes drilled into the 120-mile-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico indicate that the great impact, happened 300,000 years too early to have been the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. T...
Dinosaur Reptile Ancient Marine Reptiles ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 7 ) (Preview)	General news	60	46839	Apr 14 10:43 2017 by Blobrana
Australian scientists have identified two new species of ancient marine reptile, similar to the Loch Ness monster, in Scotland, that swam in an Australian outback sea 115 million years ago. The reptiles, named Umoonasaurus and Opallionectes, belonged to the Plesiosaurs grou...
Dinosaur Yorkshire dinosaur footprint (Preview)	Off Topic	1	2135	Oct 6 13:05 2008 by Blobrana
An operation to remove a 160-year-old dinosaur footprint from a Yorkshire beach has been successfully completed by divers of Scarborough SAC. The 66cm-long fossilised print, embedded in a 300kg sandstone boulder, was lifted from the beach at Burniston by the club's members. The Jurassic-p...
Dinosaur largest dinosaur shank (Preview)	General news	0	2099	May 20 23:14 2005 by Blobrana
The largest fossil of sauropod dinosaur's shank has been recovered and the dinosaur has been classified as "Otogosaurus". The fossil was accidentally discovered by a girl during grazing in September 2003. After identification by experts from different countries, the fossil of ...
Dinosaur German Micro Sauropods (Preview)	General news	1	2657	Jun 7 21:14 2006 by Blobrana
A new species of mini-dinosaur has been unearthed in a quarry at Oker, Germany. The creature was of the sauropod type - that group of long-necked, four-footed herbivores that were the largest of all the dinosaurs. But at just 1.7 to 6.2metres in length, this animal was considerably smaller than...
dinosaur Edmonton's Dinosaurs (Preview)	Off Topic	3	2819	Aug 23 21:56 2010 by Blobrana
University of Alberta palaeontologist Dr. Phil Currie has a dinosaur bone yard in southwest Edmonton, Canada. Originally discovered in the late 1980s by an Edmonton sculptor walking his dog, the site was left largely unexcavated until this summer when Currie and his field school students be...
Dinosaur Baby Triceratops ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	General news	18	22308	Sep 15 11:51 2016 by Blobrana
With its big, hockey puck-sized eyes, shortened face and nubby horns, it was probably as cute as a button - at least to its mother, a three-horned dinosaur called Triceratops that could weigh as much as 10 tons and had one of the largest skulls of any land animal on the planet. Visitors to the Univer...
Dinosaur Adriosaurus microbrachis (Preview)	General news	0	2261	Mar 27 10:45 2007 by Blobrana
Remains from a 95-million-year-old marine creature with nubs for legs is clarifying how some lizards shed their limbs as they crept through evolutionary time and morphed into slinky snakes. Described in the current issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, the snake-like lizard had a sm...
Dinosaur Before the Dinosaurs (Preview)	General news	7	8980	Jan 19 08:03 2012 by Blobrana
About 290 million years ago, lizard like creatures about the size of a pig roamed the landscape that would become the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness, US. A hiker discovered their tracks in 2001 in the Gunnison and White River National Forests and told officials at the Denver Museum of Nature...
Dinosaur Lebanon's Dinosaurs (Preview)	General news	0	2314	May 29 17:40 2006 by Blobrana
Palaeontologists have uncovered the first dinosaur remains in Lebanon, adding evidence to the theory that millions of years ago the Middle East was covered with forests where giant reptiles roamed. Writing in the German journal Naturwissenschaften, Eric Buffetaut of France's National Ce...
Dinosaur Xu Xing (Preview)	Off Topic	0	2302	Jul 13 09:27 2007 by Blobrana
China's fossil hunter -- a rock star of palaeontology Xu Xing doesnt know how many new species of dinosaurs he has discovered, saying he has lost count. In the unsexy world of palaeontology, Xu is perhaps the closest thing the science has to a rock star. [url=http://www.physorg.com/news103514995...
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The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm is home to exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur tracks, some displaying skin impressions. These tracks, along with hundreds of fossil fish, plants, rare dinosaur remains, invertebrates traces and important sedimentary structures, sh...
Dinosaur Australian Age of Dinosaurs (Preview)	Off Topic	5	3512	Oct 21 14:54 2016 by Blobrana
Work is underway at the site of a proposed multi-million dollar dinosaur museum in outback Queensland. The Australian Age of Dinosaurs is planning a world-class museum just outside of Winton, in the state's central west, and is about to build a fossil preparation area and a road on the site. [url=ht...