13-09-16 One day, Sammy went for a walk in the mountains. He found a stone. It looked like a big egg. He took it home and put it by the window. One morning, Sammy heard a noise. The stone broke open. It was really an egg! A small animal climbed out and looke...

13-09-11 New research has revealed the hidden past of crocodiles, showing for the first time how these fierce reptiles evolved and survived in a dinosaur dominated world. While most modern crocodiles live in freshwater habitats and feed on mammals and fish,...

13-07-18 A remarkable new species of horned dinosaur has been unearthed in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah. The huge plant-eater inhabited Laramidia, a landmass formed when a shallow sea flooded the central region of North America,...

13-05-05 Fossil remains found by a George Washington University biologist in northwestern China have been identified as a new species of small theropod（兽脚类的肉食恐龙） , or meat-eating, dinosaur. The discovery was made by James Clark, the Ronald B. Weint...

13-04-23 Accurately depicting dinosaur anatomy（解剖学） has come a long way since the science fiction films of the 1960s. In celebration of the American Association of Anatomists' (AAA) 125th anniversary, renowned dinosaur anatomy expert Dr. Lawrence Witmer...

13-01-25 The discovery of a new bird-like dinosaur from the Jurassic period challenges widely accepted theories on the origin of flight. Co-authored by Dr Gareth Dyke, Senior Lecturer in Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Southampton, the paper de...

13-01-23 In a paper published in Nature Communications on January 22, 2013, a team of paleontologists（古生物学者） including Dr. Luis Chiappe, Director of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County's (NHM) Dinosaur Institute, has discovered a way to d...

13-01-07 A University of Alberta researcher's examination of fossilized dinosaur tail bones has led to a breakthrough finding: some feathered dinosaurs used tail plumage（翅膀，羽毛） to attract mates, much like modern-day peacocks and turkeys. U of A Paleon...

12-12-05 Palaeontologists have found what is likely to be the oldest known dinosaur, filling in a yawning evolutionary gap. 古生物学家发现了一种可能是最古老的已知恐龙品种，填补了进化史上的巨大空白。 Nyasasaurus parringtoni would have shared the land with sil...

12-10-24 A team of researchers from North Carolina State University and the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) has found more evidence for the preservation of ancient dinosaur proteins, including reactivity to antibodies that target specific proteins normally...