By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:34 AM on 22nd June 2009
Dinosaurs
may not have been as monstrously big as scientists and Hollywood film directors would have us believe.
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I have included the Daily Mail’s headline because its inventiveness is worth a […]
Give them credit for keeping television-viewing to a minimum.
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By DAN JONES
ABC NEWS
March 27, 2008 —
From NEW SCIENTIST
Could Neanderthals speak? The answer may depend on whether they used make-up.
Francesco d’Errico, an archaeologist from the University of Bordeaux, France, has found crafted lumps of pigment essentially crayons left behind by Neanderthals across Europe.
He says that […]
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 […]
But Not Very Far!!
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By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer Wed Feb 13, 6:15 PM ET
NEW YORK - A fossil found in Wyoming has apparently resolved a long-standing question about when bats gained their radar-like ability to navigate and locate airborne insects at night. The answer: after they started flying.
The discovery revealed the most primitive bat […]
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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 […]
New Dinosaur Discovered in Antarctica
By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 11 December 2007 09:41 am ET
A hefty, long-necked dinosaur that lumbered across the Antarctic before meeting its demise 190 million years ago has been identified and named, more than a decade after intrepid paleontologists sawed and chiseled the remains of the primitive plant-eater from its […]
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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 […]
Mummified Dinosaur Unveiled
December 3, 2007—Dakota, a 67-million-year-old “dino mummy” unveiled today by a British paleontologist, is seen here in an artist’s rendering.
The extraordinarily preserved hadrosaur, or duck-billed dino, still had much of its tissues and bones intact, encased in an envelope of skin.
Research into the dinosaur’s remains may further scientists’ understanding of how the ancient […]
The Boston Globe
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | July 4, 2007
WASHINGTON — The day before Senate Watergate Committee minority counsel Fred Thompson made the inquiry that launched him into the national spotlight — asking an aide to President Nixon whether there was a White House taping system — he telephoned Nixon’s lawyer.
Thompson tipped […]
Cave Near Chicago Full of Ancient Wonders
Corey Binns
Special to LiveScience
LiveScience.com Fri May 18, 6:30 PM ET
North America’s oldest conifer tree and some ancient scorpion parts are among the fossil treasures found in a newly discovered cave in Illinois.
The new discovery also unearthed fossils of plants that may be new to science and revealed evidence of […]