LiveScience.com – 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.

Dinosaur hunters on a month-long expedition to the Sahara desert have returned home in time for Christmas with more than they ever dreamed of finding.

Paleontologists have long known that dinosaurs had tiny brains, but they had no idea the beasts were such airheads. Scientists suggest that newly discovered large air spaces helped lighten the load of the head, making it about 18 percent lighter than it would have been without all the air. That savings in weight could have allowed the predators to put on more bone-crushing muscle or even to take larger prey.

LiveScience.com – A fossil of a toothless flying pterosaur, with a body bigger than some family cars, represents the largest of these extinct reptiles ever to be found and has forced the creation of a new genus, scientists announced today.

LiveScience.com – Polar dinosaurs such as the 4.4-ton duckbill Edmontosaurus are thought by some paleontologists to have been champion migrators to avoid the cold, dark season. But a study now claims that most of these beasts preferred to stick closer to home despite potentially deadly winter weather.

Spectacular casts will include a six metre long Plesiosaur skeleton, a T-Rex skull, a huge Triceratops skull, and real fossils that are over 100 million years old

At this moment the database is only partially translated into English with Spanish as the main language, but taxa, formations and titles are in their original publication languages

Look at enough dinosaur displays and you begin to ask questions beyond the scope of the exhibit

Polar dinosaurs such as the 4.4-ton duckbill Edmontosaurus are thought by some palaeontologists to have been champion migrators to avoid the cold, dark season

Reuters – U.S. researchers say they have discovered what appears to be the oldest imprint of a prehistoric insect, made while the dragonfly-like creature was still alive.