• 中华丽羽龙可以抓到飞的猎物

    12-08-30 University of Alberta researchers found evidence that a feathered, but flightless dinosaur was able to snag(抓住机会) and consume small flying dinosaurs. The U of A paleontology team found the fossilized remains of three flying dinosaurs in the be...

  • 巴塔哥尼亚发现神秘鸟形恐龙的蛋化石

    12-04-11 An Argentine-Swedish research team has reported a 70-million-year-old pocket of fossilized bones and unique eggs of an enigmatic(神秘的) birdlike dinosaur in Patagonia. What makes the discovery unique are the two eggs preserved near articulated(...

  • 一种新角龙化石出土95年后被命名

    11-12-07 A new species of horned dinosaur was just announced by an international team of scientists led by Alf Museum staff, 95 years after the initial discovery of the fossil. The animal, named Spinops sternbergorum, lived approximately 76 million years ago...

  • 科学家发现恐龙大灭绝前最年幼的化石

    11-07-13 A team of scientists has discovered the youngest dinosaur preserved in the fossil record before the catastrophic meteor(流星) impact 65 million years ago. The finding indicates that dinosaurs did not go extinct prior to the impact and provides fur...

  • An Exact Number 准确数字

    11-05-27 A tourist was visiting New Mexico and was amazed at the dinosaur(恐龙) bones lying about. How old are these bones? the tourist asked an elderly Native American, who served as a guide. Exactly one hundred million and three years old. How can you be...

  • 科学家发现霸王龙“表亲”

    11-04-01 Scientists have identified a new species of gigantic theropod(兽脚亚目的) dinosaur, a close relative of T. rex, from fossil skull and jaw bones discovered in China. According to findings published online (01 April 2011) in the scientific journal C...

  • 美国发现新品种“大象腿”恐龙

    11-02-24 A new dinosaur named Brontomerus mcintoshi, or thunder-thighs after its enormously(巨大地) powerful thigh muscles, has been discovered in Utah, USA. The new species is described in a paper recently published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Pol...

  • 中国首次发现单指恐龙化石

    11-01-25 A new species of parrot-sized dinosaur, the first discovered with only one finger, has been unearthed(发掘,破获) in Inner Mongolia, China. Scientists named the new dinosaur Linhenykus monodactylus, after the nearby city of Linhe. The work is publ...

  • 韩国发现首次有角恐龙

    10-12-07 Scientists from South Korea, the United States and Japan analyzed fossil evidence found in South Korea and published research describing a new horned dinosaur. The newly identified genus(类,种,属) , Koreaceratops hwaseongensis, lived about 103 m...

  • 新恐龙以其头饰特征命名

    10-07-09 When Nicholas Longrich discovered a new dinosaur species with a heart-shaped frill(装饰) on its head, he wanted to come up with a name just as flamboyant(艳丽的,炫耀的) as the dinosaur's appearance. Over a few beers with fellow paleontologists...