LiveScience.com - Three juvenile Triceratops, a species thought to be solitary, died together in a flood and now have been found in a 66 million-year-old bone bed in Montana, lending more evidence to the idea that teen dinosaurs were gregarious gangsters.
AP - A New York gallery says a 150-million-year-old complete skeleton of a dinosaur has failed to sell at auction.
AP - Ian Wallace is a graduate student in anthropology in New York who has studied fossils in Kenya, combed excavations in Syria and France and written about his research in scholarly journals.
AFP - The fossils of a monster predator with a circular jaw and a pair of claws on its head has been discovered in the old collections of the Smithsonian museum in Washington, researchers said Thursday.
AP - A famed paleontologist who discovered the world’s best preserved dinosaur intends to plead guilty to stealing dinosaur bones from federal land.
LiveScience.com - A fossil from famous shale deposits in Canada was thought to be unremarkable, but a new study finds that it’s actually the remains of a 500-million-year-old monster-looking predator.
AFP - The discovery of a petite, plant-eating dinosaur with primitive plumage could mean that the dinosaur from which all others evolved had feather-like protrusions, according to the latest study.
The Christian Science Monitor - Since their discovery in the 1990s, feathered dinosaurs have flocked together – their fossil features shepherding them into a broad group of meat-eating beasts whose modern descendants sit on utility lines, tug on earthworms, or decorate statues.
AFP - A rare “living fossil” tuatara reptile has been born in the wild in an area of New Zealand where it had been believed extinct for 200 years, conservationists said Thursday.
AP - A small dinosaur that once roamed northeastern China was covered with a stiff, hairlike fuzz, a discovery that suggests feathers began to evolve much earlier than many researchers believe maybe even in the earliest dinosaurs. Scientists had previously identified feathers and so-called “dinofuzz” in theropods, two-legged meat-eaters that are widely considered the ancestors of birds.
