February 2012
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Go on Google Images and look up "Tenontosaurus"
perpetualartistsblock:
You’ll find it difficult (but not impossible) to find an image of a Tenontosaurus with a background not getting ravaged by a pack of Deinonychus.
Poor Tenontosaurus can’t catch a break :(
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January 2012
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Feathered Dinosaur Had Black Wings? →
One of the first dinosaurs to take to the air had wings with at least one black feather, according to a new study.
To determine the color of the winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx, scientists used a scanning electron microscope to analyze a fossilized feather from one of the raven-size creatures. The fossil was discovered in a limestone deposit in Germany in 1861.
The team was surprised to...
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December 2011
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kororaa asked: why do the bigger theropods have those tiny holes at the front of their jaws?
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November 2011
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First evidence that dinosaurs ate birds →
The world was a dangerous place for the first birds. Palaeontologists have found a fossil bird preserved where the stomach of a dinosaur would have been – the first direct evidence that dinos preyed on their feathered relatives.
Palaeontologists have long suspected that birds made up part of the predatory dino diet, but proof has been lacking. No longer: Jingmai O’Connor and colleagues...
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October 2011
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