Science news articles about 'age of the dinosaurs'

  • Saturn's Rings May be Old Timers

    ... of Saturn, once thought to have formed during the age of the dinosaurs, instead may have been created roughly 4.5 billion years ago, when the solar system ...
  • The mystery of mass extinctions is no longer murky

    ... the causes of such dramatic events. In the case of the demise of the dinosaurs, scientists have a smoking gun, an impact crater ... that neatly split North America during the age of the dinosaurs. As those epicontinental seas drained, animals ...
  • Humans ... Will You Miss Us When We're Gone?

    ... down upon for the few mistakes we have made. Let's begin at the beginning; wayyy back to the age of the Dinosaur. Read ...
  • New Species Of Prehistoric Creatures Discovered In Isle Of Wight Mud

    ... one palaeontologist has discovered 48 new species from the age of the dinosaurs using a systematic search method. The new ... old and shed valuable light on the poorly understood world in which well known dinosaurs roamed ...
  • Discovery in amber reveals ancient biology of termites

    ... Myanmar during the Early Cretaceous period – the age of the dinosaurs. It may have been attacked by a bird or somehow torn open, and then it dropped into the sticky, oozing tree ...
  • A motley collection of boneworms

    ... of immense sea-going reptiles during the age of the dinosaurs. Eventually the researchers will give all these new worms their own species names. First, however ...
  • Chickens 'one-up' humans in ability to see color

    ... and mammals are all descended from a common ancestor, but during the age of the dinosaurs, most mammals became nocturnal for millions ... , which flourished in the mammalian eye during the time of the dinosaurs. Daytime vision relies on different receptors ...
  • Experts reaffirm asteroid impact caused mass extinction

    ... mass extinctions in Earth's history, ending the age of the dinosaurs. In 1991, a more than 200-kilometer-wide impact crater was discovered in Yucatan, Mexico, that coincided ...
  • More dinosaur extinction evidence offered

    WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 9 (UPI) -- A U.S. scientist says he's found more evidence an asteroid that crashed into the Earth 65 million years ago ended the age of the dinosaurs.
  • Scientists conclude asteroid ended the age of dinosaurs

    ... the recently challenged theory that an asteroid ended the age of the dinosaurs. Scientists first proposed the asteroid ... cooling, gradually making life untenable for the dinosaurs and other large animals. They also suggest that the Chicxulub impact ...
  • CSI: Manchester -- University team gets forensic on dinosaurs

    ... team has been undertaking, helping to unpick the lives of dinosaurs. From the cranial capacity of a ferocious predator to the delicate ... on the rough and tough lives of predators and their prey in the age of the dinosaurs. Then the series moves on to the problems ...
  • T. rex more hyena than lion

    ... were able to catalog the species and relative ages of known dinosaurs in the formation, which is about 100 meters thick ... of each specimen, and teeth tell little about the age of a dinosaur at death, Goodwin said. Collating only skeletons ...
  • Animatronics and prehistoric poo bring dinosaurs alive for young visitors

    Natural History museum's Age of the Dinosaur exhibition fuses hi-tech models with interactive ... visitors will see at the Natural History museum's Age of the Dinosaur exhibition, which fuses animatronics with rarely ...
  • Last dinosaur before mass extinction discovered

    ... the meteor caused the mass extinction and wiped out the dinosaurs, but a sticking point has been an apparent lack of fossils ... ." While the team can't determine the exact age of the dinosaur, Lyson said it likely lived tens ...
  • Tree resin captures evolution of feathers on dinosaurs and birds

    Secrets from the age of the dinosaurs are usually revealed by fossilized bones, but a University of Alberta research team ... -old protofeathers, possibly from non-avian dinosaurs, as well as plumage that is very similar to modern ...

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