JOHANNESBURG — A newly discovered dinosaur species that roamed the Earth about 200 million years ago may help explain how the creatures evolved ...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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 $...
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 ...
Ellen Futter | Posted 10.01.2009 | New York
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?
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...
Jerry Zezima | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
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.
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 ...
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...
Dave Astor | Posted 07.11.2009 | Comedy
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.
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...
Keith Thomson | Posted 01.30.2009 | World
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.
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...
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...
Rick Smith | Posted 01.11.2009 | Style
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.
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 "...
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
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.
Jessica Olien | Posted 11.06.2008 | Green
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.
Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home
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.
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...
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...
AP | CELEAN JACOBSON | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green