A devastating asteroid came racing through the upper atmosphere sixty-six million years ago, made its impact on land and ended species that coexisted in the world for 180 million years, in just a blink.
"Living birds have brains more complex than any known animals except mammals," said lead investigator Christopher Torres, who conducted the research while at the UT College of Natural Sciences.
While it is known that the devastating impact of something huge that crashed into Earth 66 million years ago led to the extinction of dinosaurs, clarity on whether it was a comet or asteroid strike and where it originated was lacking.
Scientists have revealed that Spinosaurus had paddle-like tail bones which indicate its aquatic tendencies. The researchers always suspected this due to its crocodilian snout and spiky sail.
Scientists and paleontologists have identified the first known cancer in a dinosaur. The researchers at McMaster University and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have reported the aggressive malignant bone cancer--osteosarcoma in the dinosaur's bone.
On Friday, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to Twitter to claim that "Aliens built the pyramids obv (obviously)", hinting that Pharaoh Ramses 11 was probably out of this world too. In the following tweet, he wrote, "Ramses 11 was :D."
The creature, which predated dinosaurs and flying pterosaurs, was just shy of 4 inches (10 centimeters) tall, according to a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
This rare dinosaurs grown dromaeosaurids ranged from 6 to 9 feet. This baby would have been the size of a small puppy, much too young to migrate. The bone fragment belonged to a juvenile dinosaur from the dromaeosaurid family of predatory dinosaurs "closely related to birds."
Paleontologists in Australia have identified a rare "toothless" dinosaur. The dinosaur, an elaphrosaur, roamed Australia 110 million years ago, according to a statement released by the Swinburne University of Technology.
In a first, researchers have found that the dinosaur-killing meteorite that crashed into the Earth 66 million years ago may have instantly acidified the oceans by causing a release of excess sulphur into the atmosphere and the seas. The researchers, including those from Yale University in the US, said that the impact from the space rock pulverised sulphur-rich rocks, and caused the raining-out of sulphuric acid which may have led to increased ocean acidity.
The researchers found that floral scents originated from primitive flowers as far back as 100 million years ago as pollinator attractants. They have been giving olfactory excitement to the insects and animals since mid-cretaceous period.
The scientists uncovered fossil fragments of 13 long deceased trees dating from the end of the Permian Period, some 260 million years ago.
Washington : Dinosaurs are often known for their terrifying roar , but it is likely that these prehistoric large creatures may have mumbled or cooed with closed mouths, according to a new study. According
London: Around 66 million years ago the same asteroid that killed the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous period are the ones who wiped out over 90 per cent of mammal species, significantly more than previously thought,
New York: Babies of long-necked plant-eaters called Titanosaurs that include the largest animals ever to walk on land hatched from eggs no bigger than a soccer ball but they grew rapidly without any rapidly without
New York:Malaria often thought to be of more modern origin may have killed dinosaurs and the origin of this deadly disease may have begun in an insect such as the biting midge more than 100
London: While you must have read about dinosaurs being engaged in “foreplay”, British scientists now reveal that they used large ornamental structures such as horns and head crests in sexual displays and to assert social
Bhubaneswar: Indian scientists claim to have discovered two new Cycads species of plants in Odisha which were dominant some 201 million to 145 million years ago, popularly known as the Jurassic period.The discovery by Indian
New York: The world is witnessing the sixth mass extinction that threatens even our very own existence, warns a new study.The new study, published in the journal Science Advances, shows that even with extremely conservative
London: The secret to how different dinosaur species lived alongside one another in prehistoric ecosystems could be hidden within differences in diet based on their structural features and teeth arrangement, a research shows."Differences in diet
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