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Fossil study finds dinosaur parents fed their young special diets
35+ min ago (1198+ words) A new fossil study suggests baby duck-billed dinosaurs ate softer, richer foods than adults, hinting at bird-like parenting. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4. 0) Maiasaura dinosaur teeth carry a quiet clue: babies were not eating what adults ate. Tiny wear marks suggest…...
New king of Cretaceous seas identified
1+ hour, 51+ min ago (398+ words) News9live New king of Cretaceous seas identified Scientists have identified a new species of top marine predator from the time of the dinosaurs. The creature has been named Tylosaurus Rex. New Delhi: American researchers have described a new species of mosasaur,…...
Buried for 70 Million Years, Scientists Unearth Hundreds of Dinosaur Eggs From Multiple Species Inside One Ancient Fossil Bed
1+ hour, 56+ min ago (518+ words) Scientists opened an ancient fossil bed and found a scene frozen in time, with hundreds of dinosaur eggs hinting at a hidden world before extinction. The team from the Mus'e-Parc des Dinosaures expects the total count to climb into the…...
How did animals survive the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs?
3+ hour, 26+ min ago (460+ words) It helped to have a number of features to aid survival following the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Around 66 million years ago, a gigantic asteroid smashed into Earth and wreaked chaos globally. In all, 75% of Earth's species went extinct, including the nonavian…...
The Pok'mon Fossil Museum is finally open. We got an early sneak peek - AOL
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (440+ words) Excavator Pikachu is ready to report for duty. The Pok'mon Fossil Museum first opened in Japan in 2021, an initial collaboration between the National Museum of Nature and Science of Japan, four collaborating museums and The Pok'mon Company, a plaque in…...
Why flowering plants survived Earth's greatest extinction while dinosaurs did not - AOL
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (1200+ words) Flowering plants survived Earth's worst disasters, including the asteroid strike that ended the dinosaurs, while many others vanished. A sweeping genomic analysis suggests ancient DNA doubling may have helped them endure upheaval, opening a new window on resilience in a…...
New research sheds light on origin of T. Rex's famously tiny arms: 'The head took over from the arms"
11+ hour, 56+ min ago (456+ words) Tyrannosaurus rex's famously tiny arms may not have been an awkward evolutionary leftover after all. A new study suggests their arms shrank as giant predators increasingly relied on huge skulls and crushing jaws to take down prey. That pattern appears…...
Why did the T. rex have tiny arms?
2+ hour, 12+ min ago (409+ words) They were once one of the most fearsome dinosaurs to roam the earth, with an enormous set of teeth, but why did the T. rex have such tiny arms? Well, scientists now think they might have an answer. A team of…...
A 3. 2-million-year-old fossil found in Ethiopia forever changed our understanding of human evolution and showed that ancestors were already walking on two legs before having larger brains.
11+ hour, 43+ min ago (622+ words) The discovery of Lucy, a fossil approximately 3. 2 million years old found in 1974 in the Hadar region of Ethiopia, changed paleoanthropology by revealing that human ancestors were already walking bipedally before the significant increase in brain size in the human lineage....
The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs struck what is now Mexico with such force that it blasted molten ejecta high above the atmosphere before it rained back down across the planet, and many of the survivors were small, sheltered creatures " including early mammals on the line that would eventually lead to us.
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