Mar 5th, 2010 · A fossil in Tanzania suggests dinosaurs appeared 10 million years earlier than previously thought, according to a Nature study. Christian Sidor, of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington, discusses the origin of dinosaurs.
Mar 1st, 2010 · Scientists have discovered a macabre death scene that took place 67 million years ago. Preserved for eternity are an 11-foot snake and its prey, a newly hatched dinosaur. The discovery is among the rarest of the rare — fossils that reveal how ancient animals behaved.
Feb 19th, 2010 · Before whales, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, giant filter-feeding fish swam the prehistoric seas. By going back and searching through museums for misunderstood or overlooked fossil specimens, a researcher found evidence that these fish swam the Earth for more than 100 million years — far longer than scientists had previously thought.
Feb 5th, 2010 · Dinosaurs are often portrayed as a drab green or grey, but some may have been much brighter. Reporting in Science, Jakob Vinther and colleagues analyzed the fossilized feathers of 150-million-year-old dinosaur Anchiornis huxleyi and found its plumage was surprisingly flashy.
Jan 29th, 2010 · Researchers have debated whether or not ancient animals called alvarezsaurs should be considered dinosaurs or birds. Now, the discovery of Haplocheirus, a 160-million-year old alvarezsaur that predates the earliest birds, sets the record straight: alvarezsaurs are dinosaurs.
Jan 28th, 2010 · The transformation in computing has turned the old-style PC into a dinosaur. The obsolescence of the PC has spurred demand for a new kind of device — portable, flexible, always connected. But with the iPad's unwieldy form and hefty price could it truly replace other devices?
Jan 27th, 2010 · The colors of dinosaurs have long been a mystery, since soft parts aren't preserved in the fossil record. But for the first time, scientists have teased out colors from fossilized feathers to reveal the orange-and-white ringed tail of a 125-million-year-old dinosaur.
Dec 21st, 2009 · Dinosaur fossils found in China show that the Sinornithosaurus had grooved teeth connected to what could be venom ducts. Several researchers hypothesize that the dinosaur may have used venom to kill its prey, much like the Gila monsters of the American southwest.