What chicken feet say about dinosaurs
Decoding Dinosaurs: Insights from Chicken Feet Most breeds of hens move around barefoot, without feathers on their claws. But a new study has discovered a simple genetic method to reverse…
What can plant-eating dinosaurs teach us?
Plant-Eating Dinosaurs: Lessons in Dietary Habits and Adaptations ,Some dinosaurs ate smaller lizards, eggs, or even early mammals. Others hunted other dinosaurs as prey, or dig up the remains of…
The difficult task of measuring dinosaur intelligence
The study of intelligence is an extremely difficult task, even in animals living today. In part, this is because much of the scientific jury is still out on what intelligence…
How did dinosaurs have sex?
How did dinosaurs have sex? Sounds like the start of a risky prank. In the early years of paleontology it would have been considered beneath the dignity of the field…
Scientists have found footprints older than dinosaurs
A substrate composed of microbes may have preserved a series of 255-million-year-old burrows made in a sandy South African tidal flat by a clumsy amphibian, says a new study. The…
Were dinosaurs sick?
Dinosaurs lived relatively long lives. The oldest T-Rex the specimens we found were alive for about 30 years. Many dinosaurs, especially sauropods, probably lived much longer than that. And with…
Did all dinosaurs lay eggs?
Did All Dinosaurs Lay Eggs? Exploring the Reproduction Methods of Dinosaurs When the first fossilized dinosaur eggshell fragments were discovered and described around 1860, most people—including most scientists—had no idea…
This is what dinosaurs really looked like
If you encounter a velociraptor, you won’t encounter the tall, sleek, lizard-like beast from the hit Jurassic Park franchise. Instead, you’ll probably stand up against a much smaller, feathered and…
Did a swimming lizard predate the dinosaurs?
About 250 million years ago, ocean water covered what is now called Flowerdalen (“Valley of Flowers”) in modern Norway. Life in these waters was different from what it was just…
The Late Triassic Mass Extinction and Why Dinosaurs Survived
At the dawn of the Triassic period, about 252 million years ago, the ancient supercontinent Pangea stretched between the edges of the Earth. The landmass contained the geologic forerunners of…