Ancient “devil frog” may have eaten baby dinosaurs
By Will Dunham 1 hour, 3 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was the biggest, baddest, meanest froggy ever to have hopped on Earth.
Scientists on Monday announced the discovery in northwestern Madagascar of a bulky amphibian dubbed the “devil frog” that lived 65 million to 70 million years ago […]
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Andrea Thompson
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com1 hour, 57 minutes ago
A new species of duck-billed dinosaur unearthed in Mexico is helping scientists fill in gaps in the fossil record of the Age of Dinosaurs.
The creature, dubbed Velafrons coahuilensis, was a massive plant-eater belonging to a larger group of duck-billed dinosaurs called hadrosaurs.
The dino’s species name comes from the […]
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New Blood-Thirsty Dinosaur Identified
Dave Mosher
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com Tue Dec 11, 8:02 PM ET
A graduate student has identified the remains of one of the planet’s largest meat-eating dinosaurs ever found.
Steve Brusatte, a paleobiologist at the University of Bristol in England, determined fossils discovered during a 1997 Nigerian expedition belong to a new breed of meat-eating […]
Two ‘Raptor’ Dinosaurs Unearthed in Mongolia
By Ker Than
LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 23 March 2007
09:53 am ET
Two new raptor dinosaur species have been unearthed in Mongolia, including one that ranks among the smallest non-avian dinosaurs ever discovered.
One of the raptors, Tsaagan mangas, was found in the Ukhaa Tolgod region of Mongolia. Tsaagan was slightly larger than a […]
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In this undated photo released by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, researchers collect the skull of Albertaceratops nesmoi at a dig site in Alberta, Canada. The dinosaur was discovered by Michael Ryan, curator of vertebrate paleontology for the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. (AP Photo/Cleveland Museum of Natural History)
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Museum IDs New Species of […]
Rep. Rohrabacher: Global Warming May Have Been Caused By ‘Dinosaur Flatulence’ »
This week, Congress held its first hearing on the landmark IPCC report on climate change. That report concluded that global warming is “unequivocal” and human activity is the main driver, “very likely” causing most of the rise in temperatures since 1950.
During the […]