AFP – It began 10 years ago as a small-scale touch of satire: a wee plastic T. Rex and a lump of coal, awarded to the nation deemed to have done most to have held up, diluted or sabotaged world climate talks.
Like Wyoming, its neighbour to the north, Colorado has its own facility devoted to restoring dinosaurs to their original form, the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Centre
Researchers have made incredible leaps in the last year or two, learning previously unknown details about how the giant creatures were born, smelled, thought, acted and more
In an article recently published in PLoS ONE , Pontzer and his colleagues utilized two biomechanical methods to predict the metabolic demands of 14 different species of dinosaurs