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  • Daddy day care: dinosaur fathers guarded the eggs (Reuters)

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    This artist's illustration shows a male of the medium-sized predatory dinosaur Troodon, which lived in North America in the late Cretaceous Period, brooding over a clutch of eggs. Fossilized remains of Troodon and two other types of dinosaurs found with large clutches of eggs suggest that males, and not females, protected and incubated eggs laid by perhaps several females , according to scientists writing in the journal Science. (Bill Parsons/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - You can call it dino daddy day care. Scientists who examined the fossilized remains of three types of medium-sized dinosaurs found with large clutches of eggs have concluded that the males rather than the females seem to have guarded the nests and brooded the eggs.


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  • Charles Darwin was crazy about dinosaurs

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    A set of 19th-century research publications about to go online reveals the work of famous European scientists, including Charles Darwin, who were obsessed with dinosaurs, pterodactyls, plesiosaurs and fossilized dung

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  • Fossils Show Dinosaurs As Stay-at-Home Dads

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    Using statistical comparisons with birds and an analysis of leg bones found atop nests of unhatched eggs, a team of palaeontologists has concluded that at least three types of dinosaur males did the brooding and incubating

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  • Ancient armoured amphibian had world’s oddest bite

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    A peculiar amphibian that was clad in bony armour prowled warm lakes 210 million years ago, catching fish and other tasty snacks with one of the most unusual bites in the history of life on Earth

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  • Researchers find short-armed raptor in Argentina

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    An unusual raptor dinosaur found in Argentina is the largest of its kind found so far in the Southern Hemisphere, with awkwardly short arms that made it resemble a Tyrannosaurus

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  • Oldest Spider Web Dates Back to Dinosaur Era

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    Millimetre-thin strands of the presumed web have remained trapped, Jurassic Park-style, in fossilized tree resin (better known as amber) for eons

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  • Fight over dinosaur death flares anew

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    The age of the dinosaurs ended abruptly about 65 million years ago when some catastrophic event drove them to extinction, and now a vehement controversy over their disappearance is emerging anew

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  • Giant, meat-eating raptor dinosaur discovered in Argentina (AFP)

    Dino News 18.12.2008 No Comments

    Paleontologist Fernando Novas shows a replica of the dinosaur Austroraptor cabazai at the Argentine Museum of Natural Science Bernardino Rivadavia in Buenos Aires. The dinosaur, of about 70 million years old, was found in the Patagonian province of Rio Negro, SW of Buenos Aires.(AFP/Juan Mabromata)AFP - The fossils of a newly discovered, meat-eating raptor dinosaur, one of the biggest and perhaps most recent to live in Argentina’s Patagonia region 70 million years ago, were presented Wednesday at a Buenos Aires museum.


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  • Giant Dinosaur Fossil Found in Sahara Desert (LiveScience.com)

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    View of the Sahara desert in 2003. British and Moroccan scientists said Tuesday they had found the remains of two new species of extinct animals in the Saharan desert, describing the find as one of the most important of the past 50 years.(AFP/File/Hocine Zaourar)LiveScience.com - Paleontologists claim they have unearthed a new type of pterosaur and a previously unknown sauropod dinosaur in the Sahara Desert.


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  • Researchers find short-armed raptor in Argentina (Reuters)

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    Reuters - An unusual raptor dinosaur found in Argentina is the largest of its kind found so far in the Southern Hemisphere, with awkwardly short arms that made it resemble a Tyrannosaurus, researchers reported on Tuesday.

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