New fossil interpretation challenges notion that birds are descended from dinosaurs
Re-examination of a sparrow-sized fossil from China has led researchers to challengethe commonly held belief that birds evolved from ground-dwelling…
Scientists uncover biggest-ever flying bird
The fossilized remains of an extinct giant bird with a wingspan of 24 feet place the creature above theoretical upper…
Fossil analysis indicates dinosaurs used feathers for courtship
A University of Alberta scientist says that fossilized dinosaur tail bones provide strong evidence that feathered dinosaurs used tail plumage…
Double whammy dinosaur extinction theory
Widely credited to have wiped out the dinosaurs, the giant asteroid that smashed into the Yucatán Peninsula 65 million years…
Birds are baby dinosaurs, say Harvard scientists
Birds and dinosaurs are more closely related than previously thought, say scientists who claim that modern birds are, essentially, living…
Dino farts warmed early climate
Mesozoic methane emissions from dinosaurs could, according to new calculations, have produced more of the notorious greenhouse gas than all…
T-rex a baby killer
The cinematic cliché of two huge dinosaurs battling to the death may be nothing but fantasy if German scientists are…
Lost world… found?
New evidence suggests that dinosaur bones found in the San Juan Basin date from after the supposed dino-doomsday, and that…
Different Dinosaur Death Theory Erupts
The extinction of the dinosaurs – thought to be caused by an asteroid impact some 65 million years ago –…