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…
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…