Volcanic eruptions triggered dawn of dinosaurs: Study
The Triassic extinction, one of the largest mass extinctions of animal life on record, was proceeded by the dinosaur era.
Jun 20, 2017, 14:09 PM IST
Fossils of complete crocodile unearthed in China's Jilin Province
Crocodiles and dinosaurs lived together, which means there are probably more fossils buried underneath, Jin Changzhu, a research fellow at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, said on Friday.
Jun 09, 2017, 11:50 AM IST
Antibiotic-resistant 'superbugs' evolved even before dinosaurs
Antibiotic resistance is a leading public health concern worldwide as it threatens nearly five per cent of patients with infections during their stay in hospitals.
May 13, 2017, 00:12 AM IST
Scientists discover 70 million-year-old dinosaur egg fossils in China!
There have been similar finds in the Foshan region, which has gained a reputation in the scientific community for revealing valuable information from the Cretaceous period.
Apr 24, 2017, 19:25 PM IST
Study says early dinosaurs were similar to crocodiles
The six-foot-long, lizard-like carnivore, called Teleocrater rhadinus, was discovered in Tanzania. The finding fundamentally changes our ideas about the evolution of the prehistoric animals.
Apr 13, 2017, 16:29 PM IST
Paleontologists identify 150 dinosaur tracks in Australia!
The newly-identified 150 tracks are older than most dinosaur fossils unearthed in the eastern part of Australia and which are thought to be between 90 and 115 million years old.
Mar 27, 2017, 22:33 PM IST
Dinosaur tracks discovered in China
The tracks were found on a rural mountain road in Longjing city in August 2015, Xinhua news agency quoted the scientists from China, South Korea and the US as saying.
Mar 11, 2017, 13:14 PM IST
Giant penguin lived along dinosaurs once upon a time: Report
A giant penguin foot-bone discovered in New Zealand shows that the ancestors of everyone’s favourite flightless bird waddled Earth during the age of dinosaurs, researchers have found.
Feb 25, 2017, 16:04 PM IST
China has been hiding what may have been an actual Jurassic Park!
The survey covered an area of 11,000 square kilometres in Zhejiang. Scientists identified eight new species among the fossils.
Feb 21, 2017, 14:41 PM IST
Sulphuric acid clouds caused darkness, cold, killing dinosaurs
It took the climate about 30 years to recover, the scientists found.
Jan 15, 2017, 16:52 PM IST
Dinosaurs took months to hatch from eggs — Did long incubation time play a role in their extinction?
Scientists find Dinosaurs eggs hatched slowly like reptiles, not birds.
Jan 04, 2017, 01:27 AM IST
'Asteroid that killed dinosaurs may have punctured Earth's crust'
The findings may shed light on how such impacts can reshape the face of planets and generate new habitats for life, researchers said.
Nov 22, 2016, 09:50 AM IST
Dinosaurs were social animals, not solo creatures
Dismissing a common perception that dinosaurs were solitary, vicious monsters, researchers have found evidence that just like most modern animals, these gigantic creatures too loved company and they lived and died together in groups.
Oct 25, 2016, 14:34 PM IST
'Jurassic World 2' to begin production in Hawaii next year
Production on "Jurassic World 2" is slated to start early next year in Hawaii.
Jul 23, 2016, 13:17 PM IST
Meet the dino with tiny arms just like T Rex
A newly-discovered dinosaur from Patagonia has similar short, two-fingered claws, even though it's not closely related to the tyrannosaurs.
Jul 14, 2016, 16:50 PM IST
Dinosaurs mumbled with closed mouths
It is likely that some dinosaurs mumbled or cooed with closed mouths, according to a study.
Jul 13, 2016, 00:50 AM IST
'Volcanic eruptions in India linked to dinosaur extinction'
Andrea Dutton from University of Florida and colleagues from University of Michigan in the US utilised a new technique of analysis to reconstruct Antarctic ocean temperatures that support the idea that the combined impacts of volcanic eruptions and an asteroid impact brought about one of Earth's biggest mass extinctions 66 million years ago.
Jul 07, 2016, 15:19 PM IST
Dinosaurs struggled to survive long before asteroid hit
Dinosaurs struggled to survive for tens of millions of years before they finally went extinct, an event widely blamed on the environmental fallout from an asteroid strike, researchers have said.
Apr 19, 2016, 07:45 AM IST
Fossil find sheds light on Tyrannosaurs rex mystery!
The new species of dinosaur, discovered by the US and Russia-based scientists working in Uzbekistan, is named Timurlengia.
Mar 16, 2016, 21:50 PM IST
Scientists find dinosaur-like features in ancient mammal
The similarity to hadrosaurs was immediately clear to the researchers when they opened CT scan files revealing the inner structures of those bones.
Feb 06, 2016, 18:39 PM IST
