150-million-year-old teeth expose dinosaurs’ secret diets
You are what you eat, it turns out — even if your last meal was 150 million years ago. While the grub itself may be long gone, a record of…
Crushing vs. Slashing: New skull scans reveal how giant dinosaurs killed
A new analysis of the bite strength of 18 species of carnivorous dinosaurs shows that while the Tyrannasaurus rex skull was optimized for quick, strong bites like a crocodile, other…
The 10,000-mile march through fire that made dinosaurs possible
The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world deemed completely inhospitable to life, new research suggests. In a…
Dinosaurs Weren’t Doomed Before the Asteroid Hit, New Research Suggests
Scientists say that dinosaurs weren’t doomed when an asteroid hit Earth. Fossil unearthings before the asteroid collision, at the end of the Cretaceous epoch, show that dinosaurs were losing variety…
Tracking down the asteroid that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs
Geoscientists from the University of Cologne have led an international study to determine the origin of the huge piece of rock that hit the Earth around 66 million years ago…