Dinosaurs

Aardonyx celestae: New Dinosaur Species Discovered

AP | CELEAN JACOBSON | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green


JOHANNESBURG — A newly discovered dinosaur species that roamed the Earth about 200 million years ago may help explain how the creatures evolved ...

Fossil Fuels Had A Hand In Dinosaur Extinction

New Scientist | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green


Fossil fuels have a new crime to live down. A frenzy of hydrocarbon burning at the end of the Permian period may have led to the most devastating mass...

Smallest Dinosaur's Bones Identified; Looked Like A "Roadrunner On Steroids" (PHOTOS)

AP/ Huffington Post | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green


LOS ANGELES -- Fossil bones housed at a Los Angeles museum belong to the smallest dinosaur discovered in North America, scientists said Tuesday. Th...

New Revelations About Dinosaurs Indicate Trampling, Drought, Mass Die-Off In Utah

AP | MIKE STARK | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green


SALT LAKE CITY — Paleontologists say analysis of a vast collection of broken dinosaur bones unearthed in southeast Utah indicates they were trampled by other dinosaurs shortly after they died.

Brigham Young University scientists have spent years analyzing more than 4,000 bones from a quarry just west of Arches National Park.

They say the bone collection – which includes at least 67 dinosaurs representing eight species – suggests a mass die-off, likely from drought.

BYU professor Brooks Britt, lead author of a recently published study of the bones, says that after the die-offs, other plant-eating dinosaurs stomped through the carcasses as they passed through, snapping most of the bones at the site. Some were crushed multiple times.

The bones are now housed at BYU's Earth Science Museum.

Colorado's Mastodon Find Is The Latest Chapter In The State's Paleontology History (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.05.2009 | Denver


The recent discovery of mastodon fossils by teenagers near Denver made headlines all over the state and the country, but Colorado has been a hot bed f...

Going Once, Going Twice: Dinosaur Bones Are Up For Auction In Las Vegas (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.03.2009 | Green


Only in Vegas would they... auction off dinosaur bones? This mammoth auction taking place on October 3rd at the Venetian is predicted to gross about $...

Dinosaur Eggs Found In India

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.03.2009 | Green


Each egg is the size of a football - about 13 to 23cm in diameter, lying buried in sandy nests. The leader of the team, MU Ramkumar, told the BBC the ...

Adapt We Must: What the Dinosaurs Can Teach Us About Current Challenges

Ellen Futter | Posted 10.01.2009 | New York


Ellen Futter

If today, after many years of "business as usual," our society, our systems, and our institutions are all undergoing a kind of evolutionary burst, then how do we ensure that it yields change for the better?

Tiny T-Rex: Small Tyrannosaurus Discovered (PHOTO)

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green


WASHINGTON — About 125 million years ago a tiny version of Tyrannosaurus rex roamed what is now northeastern China. Tiny, that is, by T. rex sta...

"Day at the Museum"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living


Jerry Zezima

I didn't spend a night at the museum for two good reasons: It closed at 5:45 p.m. and I am not, for better or for worse, Ben Stiller.

Experts Looking Into Possibility Of Cloning Animals That Have Been Extinct For Thousands Of Years (VIDEO)

Posted 10.18.2009 | Home


The "Today Show" has an interesting report on how the science for cloning long-dead animals, including dinosaurs and woolly mammoths, has taken large ...

Tiny-rannosaurus Rex: Why Dinosaurs May Not Have Been As Huge As You Thought

Daily Mail | Posted 07.22.2009 | Home


Dinosaurs may not have been as monstrously big as scientists and Hollywood film directors would have us believe. Scientists believe the original meth...

A Preposterous Pre-Digital Primer

Dave Astor | Posted 07.11.2009 | Comedy


Dave Astor

In the days before the internet, how did out-of-town journalists transmit typewritten stories to their editors? They folded the stories into paper airplanes and hurled them out of hotel windows.

China's Gobi Desert Source Of Rare Dinosaur Find

AP | CHI-CHI ZHANG | Posted 04.16.2009 | World


BEIJING — Left on their own by adults, the young dinosaurs sank into the mud beside a lake and died 90 million years ago in what would become th...

Chances You'll Be Killed by an Asteroid in 2009

Keith Thomson | Posted 01.30.2009 | World


Keith Thomson

A computer video circulating the internet has rekindled fears that an asteroid will hit Earth and send mankind the way of the brontosaurus. Based on NASA projections, there is indeed a chance of this.

Dinosaurs Were Stay-At-Home Dads, New Research Reveals

Los Angeles Times | Karen Kaplan | Posted 01.20.2009 | Home


Dinosaur dads played an active role in raising their young and often served as single parents, according to a study published Friday in the journal Sc...

Volcanoes Killed The Dinosaurs, New Evidence Suggests

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 01.16.2009 | Home


Accepted theory holds that the dinosaurs became extinct after a large asteroid crashed into Earth, rending the environment uninhabitable. However, th...

An Open Letter to God from the Dinosaurs: Delay Evolution!

Rick Smith | Posted 01.11.2009 | Style


Rick Smith

Dear God: The pterodactyls suggested a few million years ago that we consider moving south where it's warmer, so we soon plan to form a committee.

Scientists Discover "Dinosaur Dance Floor" In Utah

AP | MIKE STARK | Posted 11.21.2008 | Green


SALT LAKE CITY — Geologists say they have discovered prehistoric animal tracks so densely packed on a 3/4-acre site that they're calling it a "...

Sarah Palin Answers the Dinosaur Question

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics


Matthew Filipowicz

The truth behind this is that we're all jealous of Sarah Palin. She reminds us of the naive innocence of childhood. Before we were burdened with horrible things like science and facts.

Does Sarah Palin Believe in Oil?

Jessica Olien | Posted 11.06.2008 | Green


Jessica Olien

Palin doesn't believe in those funny-lookin' fossils that eventually evolved into you and me. This is extremely funny as she certainly seems to believe in their byproduct oil.

It's Time For Financial Dinosaurs To Die

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home


Henryk A. Kowalczyk

Instead of pouring cash into saving financial giants that are doomed for extinction, the government should use these funds to assist people and institutions that could be affected by the Wall Street turmoil.

New Dinosaur Fossils Discovered In Utah

AP | MIKE STARK | Posted 06.25.2008 | Home


SALT LAKE CITY — A newly discovered batch of well-preserved dinosaur bones, petrified trees and even freshwater clams in southeastern Utah could...

Megalodon Shark Tooth Found By Snorkeling Teen

AP | Posted 04.05.2008 | Living


PORT HURON, Mich. — David Wentz was snorkeling off Marysville Beach in the St. Clair River last August when what he thought was an odd-looking r...