Paleontologists have discovered that a close relative of Velociraptor hunted the dwarfed inhabitants of Late Cretaceous Europe, an island landscape largely isolated from nearby continents. While island animals tend to be smaller and more primitive than their continental cousins, the theropod Balaur bondoc was as large as its relatives on other parts of the globe and demonstrated advanced adaptations including fused bones and two terrifyingly large claws on each hind foot.
Fires and floods which raged across the Isle of Wight some 130 million years ago made the island the richest source of pick ’n’ mix dinosaur remains of this age anywhere in the world. A new study has revealed the Island’s once violent weather explains why thousands of tiny dinosaur teeth and bones lie buried alongside the huge bones of their gigantic relatives.
It sports a noticeable hump, which was at least 16 inches tall, that may have been used to help the meat-eating theropod communicate with its own species
Eventually somebody like Justy Alicea will retrieve the unexamined specimens and start painstakingly chipping away at the rock, revealing the remains of a fellow who struck fear in the neighborhood
The study revealed that the Boltysh and Chicxulub impact happened as two distinct events probably thousands of years apart
There are about 700 or 800 species of dinosaurs that have been named and that are genuinely different from one another
Little wonder fossil hunters in Romania were astonished when they unearthed remains of a distant relative of Velociraptor, the familiar single-claw predator of fierce repute, and saw its unusual stocky limbs and double-clawed feet
SPACE.com – A spot
on Mars called Nili Fossae that is rich in clay mineral-rich rocks could be a prime
spot to search for the fossilized remains of Martian life that may have existed
4 billion years ago, a new study suggests.
LiveScience.com – A clawed, predatory dinosaur may have been caught in the act
of digging for mammalian prey, scientists now reveal.
AFP – Scientists in Brazil say a fossil of an elephant’s tooth found in the Amazon jungle proves the presence of pachyderms in South America some 45,000 years ago, a report said on Tuesday.
