Mystery of dinosaur feathers solved.
A new study study suggests that plumage evolved in dinosaurs because its bright coloration facilitated communication and mate selection. “If you look at a cladogram (tree of life) for a group of...
View ArticleFirst complete dinosaur skeleton found in South Korea!
The first complete skeleton of a theropod dinosaur discovered in South Korea. Yonhap) The South Korean National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage announced that a complete skeleton of a small...
View ArticleNew Horned Dinosaur With Super-Bizarre ‘Beak’ Discovered
A new paper, “A Ceratopsian Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Western North America, and the Biogeography of Neoceratopsia,” link here reports the discovery of a new dinosaur with a ‘super bizarre...
View ArticleDinosaur Island supports cannibalistic T. Rex
Dinosaur Island supports cannibalistic dinosaurs! Just click on the ‘cannibal’ box. As recently reported in Science Magazine (here), “[t]he group of ferocious meat-eating dinosaurs known as...
View ArticleDinosaur Island & Cannibalistic T-Rexes!
A sixty-six million year old T-Rex bone (click here) shows conclusive evidence that the T. Rex was cannibalistic. Dinosaur Island has supported cannibalistic T-Rexes since April (see screen shot...
View ArticleDinosaur Mating Dances
This illustration shows theropods engaged in scrape ceremony display activity, based on trace fossil evidence from Colorado. Photograph: Lida Xing/AP Geologist Martin Lockley reports that there is now...
View ArticleFossil Bed From the Great Extinction Found?
A vast bone bed of dinosaur bones from about the right time (66 million years ago) has been discovered in New Jersey that may be from the Great Extinction (the comet hitting the Earth). Read more about...
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