Reuters – When it came to the sense of smell among meat-eating dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex nosed out the competition.
LiveScience.com – From the moment we saw it, we knew the place held many great
secrets. We had been looking for new fossil sites on the south side of
the Hawaiian island of Kauai in 1992 with our colleagues, Helen F.
James and Storrs L. Olson of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,
D.C., along with their children, Travis and Sydney, and our own, Mara
and Alec.
LiveScience.com – A “dinosaur graveyard” full of fossils has been discovered in a former river bed in Utah, presenting an opportunity for a decade’s worth of Jurassic research by paleontologists, it was announced this week.
Scientists and technicians with the Utah Thornbury Dinosaur Expedition unearthed an abundance of sauropod (an herbivorous long-necked dinosaur) finds, as well as the bones of several carnivorous dinosaurs, said paleontologist Luis Chiappe, director of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County’s Dinosaur Institute. …




