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04 2010
Like kids today who don’t want to dress like Mom and Dad, some young feathered dinosaurs sported a look totally unlike their elders, a new study shows.
By Sid Perkins, Science News
The finding hints ...
29
04 2010
Rapid and bizarre switches suggest dinos had birds beat for plumage diversity.
An artist's rendering of the two feather types on Similicaudipteryx.
Charles Q. Choi
for National Geographic News
Publ...
20
04 2010
Charles Q. Choi
LiveScience Contributor
The swift predator Velociraptor has been caught frozen in time apparently scavenging on the corpse of another, larger dinosaur, scientists now reveal.
Not only d...
07
04 2010
Canadian scientist Corwin Sullivan also co-authored a paper in the journal Zootaxa in March documenting the new roadrunner-like dinosaur species Xixianykus zhangi.
Photograph by: Chinese Academy of Scienc...
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03 2010
A new study published in the scientific journal Zootaxa by Chinese, Canadian and British researchers describes a new dinosaur that was one of the smallest known and also one of the best adapted for running. The fo...
23
03 2010
BEIJING - A team of paleontologists has found an intact and complete skeleton fossil of a previously undiscovered dinosaur species in north China, the team's leading scientist Xu Xing said Saturday.
Named Linh...
14
03 2010
Kevin Holden
BEIJING – After the discovery of microscopic evidence of feather coloring and patterns in dinosaur and bird fossils dating back more than 120 million years, Chinese scientists are now working wit...
12
03 2010
They appeared long before the creatures took to the skies
In a groundbreaking new finding, researchers have determined that dinosaur exhibited the same type of wrists that birds would later employ long before ...
01
03 2010
17 February 2010 by Phil McKenna
Xu Xing's dinosaur finds range from a pint-sized creature with four wings to the feathered ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex. Between them, they have cemented the evolutionary link...
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02 2010
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Lost in time, hidden beneath the earth for millions of years, dinosaurs aren't creatures that reveal their secrets quickly.
Yet two new and surprising dino-discoveries recently have come ou...
