Scientists Find First Evidence of Respiratory Sickness in Dinosaur

VOA Learning English • voa
Feb. 17, 2022 ~5 min

Did male and female dinosaurs differ? A new statistical technique is helping answer the question

The lack of large numbers of fossils makes it hard to study sexual dimorphism in dinosaurs. But a new statistical approach offers insight into this question and others across science.

Evan Thomas Saitta, Postdoctoral Scholar in Paleontology, University of Chicago • conversation
Feb. 1, 2022 ~10 min


Fish bones and water lilies help pin down the month the dinosaurs died

A recent study provides additional evidence that the dinosaurs died in June.

Michael J. Benton, Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of Bristol • conversation
Jan. 25, 2022 ~6 min

Some dinosaurs rocked pops of color to woo mates

A new study suggests that, like modern birds, some dinosaurs brightly colored skin or scales and used the color to find a mate.

Monica Kortsha-UT Austin • futurity
Dec. 27, 2021 ~6 min

Dinosaur embryo discovery: rare fossil suggests dinosaurs had similar pre-hatching posture to modern birds

The little dinosaur is curled up inside its shell the same way birds do before hatching, shedding new light on the link between the behaviour of dinosaurs and modern birds.

Fion Waisum Ma, PhD Student, Palaeobiology, University of Birmingham • conversation
Dec. 21, 2021 ~5 min

To get airborne, giant pterosaur took an 8-foot leap

To get airborne, the giant pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus probably jumped at least 8 feet into the air before lifting off by sweeping its wings.

Monica Kortsha-UT Austin • futurity
Dec. 14, 2021 ~8 min

New ‘monster’ ichthyosaur had an arsenal of deadly teeth

A new 130-million-year-old fossil "shakes up the evolutionary tree" of ichthyosaurs, which were ancient animals that look eerily like living swordfish.

Shirley Cardenas-McGill • futurity
Nov. 30, 2021 ~5 min

Baby giant pterosaurs may have driven smaller species extinct, fossil discovery shows

We examined pterosaur jaw fragments from the Moroccan desert to understand more about how these creatures evolved.

David Martill, Professor of ​Palaeobiology, University of Portsmouth • conversation
Nov. 11, 2021 ~7 min


Laying low might have saved ground critters from dino-killing asteroid

An asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago killed nearly all dinosaurs, plants, and animals. So how did some creatures survive the mass extinction?

Jim Erickson-Michigan • futurity
Nov. 3, 2021 ~12 min

‘Weird’ ancient mammal is the first to have tusks

"We were able to show that the first tusks belonged to animals that came before modern mammals, called dicynodonts," researchers report.

U. Washington • futurity
Nov. 2, 2021 ~9 min

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