* Astronomy

Researchers say new dinosaur found in northern Alaska

Researchers have uncovered a new species of plant-eating dinosaur in Alaska, according to a report published Tuesday.
The animal was a variety of hadrosaur, a duck-billed dinosaur that roamed in herds, said Pat Druckenmiller, earth sciences curator at the University of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks.
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Why big dinosaurs steered clear of the tropics

For more than 30 million years after dinosaurs first appeared, they remained inexplicably rare near the equator, where only a few small-bodied meat-eating dinosaurs eked out a living. The age-long absence of big plant-eaters at low latitudes is one of the great, unanswered questions about the rise of the dinosaurs.
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Whitby sauropod dinosaur fossil is UK's oldest

Britain's oldest sauropod dinosaur has been identified from a fossil bone discovered on the North Yorkshire coast, experts have revealed.
Its veterbra was discovered after it fell from a cliff face onto a beach near Whitby. Tests by University of Manchester scientists indicate it is about 176 million years old, dating from the Middle Jurassic period.
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Tiny Chinese dinosaur sported unusual wings, fossil suggests

Dinosaurs normally used wings mostly made of feathers for flight. But the newly discovered creature evidently had wings made of skin instead, like those of a bat or some ancient flying reptiles.
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