Paleontology

Azendohsaurus Loses Its Dinosaur Status

The plant eating dinosaur Azendohsaurus is not actually a dinosaur, only a distant relative, according to a new analysis of A. madagaskarensis based on the entire skull rather than on just the teeth and jaw. Many aspects of Azendohsaurus are far more primi ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2010 - 10:30am

Asteroid Really Did Wipe Out The Dinosaurs, Scientists Say

The debate over what wiped out the dinosaurs has been raging for three decades, and researchers writing in Science say they have compiled enough evidence to end it. They say it really was an asteroid that was responsible for the mass extinction.  Scientist ...

Article - News Staff - May 25 2010 - 10:55am

Researchers Investigate Jeyawati Rugoculus- New Plant-Eating Dinosaur

A team of paleontologists writing in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has described a new species of dinosaur based upon an incomplete skeleton found in western New Mexico. The new species, Jeyawati rugoculus, comes from rocks that preserve a swampy ...

Article - News Staff - May 26 2010 - 11:01am

Alanqa Saharicafrom: 95-Million-Year-Old Pterosaur From Morocco Identified

Scientists say ancient fossils unearthed in the Sahara desert belong to a new type of pterosaur (giant flying reptile or pterodactyl) that existed about 95 million years ago. According to the findings published PLoS ONE, the researchers consider the newly ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2010 - 10:45am

Ardipithecus Ramidus Versus The Savannah Hypothesis

Finally, there is at least some controversy about Ardipithecus ramidus- 'Ardi'.   Ardi was the missing link that was bigger than a meteor hitting the Earth or whatever, right?  Nope, that was Darwinius, also called Ida (see Science by PR Blitz). ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 27 2010 - 5:02pm

Coahuilaceratops Magnacuerna- Scientists Discover Horned Dinosaur In Mexico

Researchers have unearthed a new species of horned dinosaur in Mexico with larger horns that any other species – up to 4 feet long.  The finding has given scientists fresh insights into the ancient history of western North America, according to a research ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2010 - 1:57pm

Solenodon

The Solenodon, 76-million-year-old badass of the natural world, must be saved So says Lucy Jones, the Telegraph's Culture Blogs Editor, who normally writes about popular culture and aesthetics, specialising in music, film and fashion. But she puts it ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jun 2 2010 - 7:20am

Fossil Record: Earliest Animal Life Gets Pushed Back 70 Million Years, Says Study

Princeton scientists say they may have discovered the oldest fossils of animal bodies; sponge-like creatures that were living in ocean reefs 650 million years ago. The shelly fossils, found beneath a 635 million-year-old glacial deposit in South Australia, ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2010 - 2:37pm

Concavenator Corcovatus- The Hunchback (Dinosaur) Of Cuencia

Paleontologists have released details about Concavenator corcovatus, a carnivorous humpbacked dinosaur discovered in Spain- and it oddly had both feathers and scales. Concavenator corcovatus was a theropod dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous period, ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2010 - 10:23pm

'Lost Continent' Of Laramidia Finds Two New Dinosaurs

New dinosaurs in a long-forgotten world and you've never heard of it?  Don't be alarmed, the  "lost continent" of Laramidia was formed when a shallow sea flooded the central region of North America, isolating the eastern and western por ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 22 2010 - 7:13pm