LiveScience.com – A rare fossilized dinosaur nest helps answer the conundrum of which came first, the chicken or the egg, two paleontologists say.

Reuters – Canadian researchers say they’ve narrowed down the likely owner of a dinosaur nest, abandoned on a river’s edge 77 million years ago, adding the discovery offers a unique look at dinosaur reproduction and the evolution of birds.

Reuters – The fossil of a wide-hipped Homo erectus found in Ethiopia suggests females of the pre-human species swayed their hips as they walked and gave birth to relatively developed babies with big heads, researchers said on Thursday.

It has all the hallmarks of a Cretaceous melodrama. A dinosaur sits on her nest of a dozen eggs on a sandy river beach. Water levels rise, and the mother is faced with a dilemma: Stay or abandon her unhatched offspring to the flood and scramble to safety?

AP – So maybe there was no dinosaur dancing after all.

Potholes or tracks? A group of paleontologists visited the northern Arizona wilderness site nicknamed a “dinosaur dance floor” and concluded there were no dinosaur tracks there, only a dense collection of unusual potholes eroded in the sandstone. So the scientist who leads the University of Utah’s geology department says she will team up with the skeptics for a follow-up study.

The evolutionary link between prehistoric dinosaurs and modern, warm-blooded birds is just one aspect of paleontology to explore at “Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries,” a travelling exhibition that runs through Jan. 4 at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

The real breakthrough in the book was Crichton’s ingenious intellectual synthesis, the way he created an amazingly plausible story out of a couple of different strands of then-new science

An eight-armed creature that looked more like a modern party favour than a living animal colonized a large section of the world’s oceans over 300 million years before the first dinosaurs emerged

AFP – Tyrannosaurus Rex could sniff out distant prey even at night, yet another reason the flesh-ripping predator reigned supreme as king of the dinosaurs, according to a study published on Wednesday.