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* Drones flying over Alberta badlands to map dinosaur beds

It's a pioneering approach to bone-bed mapping - one that could help palaeontologists see their finds in a new light.

 

*What colour were dinosaur feathers?

To determine the colour of the winged dinosaur Archaeopteryx, scientists used a scanning electron microscope to analyze a fossilized feather.

 

*Did this dinosaur nest have a 'babysitter'?

They may have a fearsome reputation, but some dinosaurs were so gentle they were used as babysitters, according to new research.

 

*Scientists tap tech to reveal dinosaur egg secrets

Jones is going to create a three-dimensional scan of the fossilized embryo using a synchrotron particle collider in the United Kingdom.

 

*An Ancient Story of Survival

The blast that killed the dinosaurs was assumed to have killed most other life as well, however, some fishes fared better than others.

 

*"Bone Digger" Interns Fuel Their Passion At Dinosaur National Monument

With over 1,500 dinosaur bones to document, and each bone needing multiple photographs to show all the anatomical details, plus converting several large historic quarry maps with drawings of thousands of bones needing into electronic files, it is a busy, but satisfying season.

 

*Who Was the Smallest Dinosaur?

Plenty of ink has been spilled over the question of what the largest dinosaur of all time was, but, perhaps befitting the title, comparatively little attention has been paid to the opposite puzzle.

 

*Alberta dinosaur egg excavation could yield rare fossilized babies

Palaeontologists say if a nest belonging to duck-billed dinosaurs was found it would the first in Canada.

 

*Public will see 125 million-year-old dinosaur tracks

The public will soon have a chance to see an extraordinary set of footprints left behind by dinosaurs 125 million years ago.

 

*Laramidia: So many dinosaurs, so little space

Little is known about the dinosaurs that occupied Appalachia, but the fossil record of Laramidia is extensive, especially from a rock unit called the Dinosaur Park Formation in what is now Alberta, Canada.

 

*Incredible Dinocycle Leaves Fossil Fuels in the Dust

Norwegian artist Markus Moestue has built an incredible - and hilarious - dinosaur tricycle.

 

*Palaeontologists Reconstruct Giant Dinosaur With Fossils Found in Spain

Fossils discovered in the east-central Spanish province of Cuenca have enabled experts to reconstruct the dermal armor of the titanosaurs, the last of the giant dinosaurs, for the first time.

 

*30th anniversary of Atlascopcosaurus

Atlascopcosaurus was an estimated 6.5 – 13 feet long and weighed 276 lbs; the dinosaur belonged to the Hypsilophodontidae family and lived during the early Cretaceous Period.

 

*August Was Dinosaur Month at Fernbank

The exhibition was the first time the world saw the full skeletons of the world’s largest dinosaurs - the 123-foot-long Argentinosaurus and the 47-foot-long Giganotosaurus.

 

*Scratching the surface of Saskatchewan’s dinosaur bone bed

Drumheller and the Alberta Badlands are known as a hotspot for dinosaur exploration in Canada, but the bones and fossils don’t stop at the border.

 

*Not Dinos But - New species of pterosaur discovered in Brazil

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a colony of pterosaurs that lived around a desert lake in southern Brazil around 100 million years ago.

 

*Giant Armoured Dinosaur Unearthed in China

Farmers in China have unearthed the nearly complete skeleton of a juvenile armored dinosaur that may be one of the largest ankylosaurs.

 

*Skeleton of dinosaur first unearthed 155 years ago now being excavated

The first dinosaur remains in Utah were discovered 155 years ago, but because of the difficult terrain the dinosaur had never been fully excavated.

 

*Rise of the dinosaurs

New evidence raises questions about when dinosaurs evolved in North America.

 

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