Category Archive 'Dinosaurs'

21.04.08

Stalking a T. rex in Chicago

- Dinosaurs, Museums, Paleontology, Science (general), Videos -

INQUIRER.NET executive editor Leo Magno visits The Field Museum for a close encounter with “Sue,” the world’s most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. Sue was named after Sue Hendrickson, the American paleontologist who discovered the skeleton.

06.09.07

Traced: The asteroid breakup that wiped out the dinosaurs

- Dinosaurs -

By Richard Ingham
Agence France-Presse

PARIS–The extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago can be traced to a collision between two monster rocks in the asteroid belt nearly 100 million years earlier, scientists report on Wednesday.

The smash drove a giant sliver of rock into Earth’s path, eventually causing the climate-changing impact that ended the reign of the dinosaurs and enabled the rise of mammals — including, eventually, us.

Other asteroid fragments smashed into the Moon, Venus and Mars, pocking their faces with mighty craters, the US and Czech researchers believe.

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20.04.07

Which came 1st, the T-rex or the egg?

- Dinosaurs, Fossils, Paleontology -

SO, did the T-rex taste like chicken, heh :)

If you’ve read or watched “Jurassic Park,” then you’ve heard the hypothesis that birds evolved from dinosaurs. But researchers now have unearthed new evidence of the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds.

Here’s an excerpt from one of the stories that came out about the Tyrannosaurus rex fossil:

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