Dinosaurs and fossilized Efichianodos are familiar with the meteor strike that wiped out Tyrannosaurus rex and all nonviolent dinosaurs nearly a million years ago. But it is often overlooked that the effect also destroyed the entire ecosystem. A new study shows how, as a result of these casualties, another particularly …
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Despite dominating the planet’s surface for millions of years, dinosaur diversity reached a dramatic conclusion at the end of the planet’s impact on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, about 66 million years ago. It is so swollen with data that it is hard to imagine any room for suspicion that this …
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In 1995, a museum in southwestern Germany found an unusual fossil from a cream-colored limestone in northeastern Brazil: a 120-million-year-old dinosaur that a curious scientist believed could be algae. Now, 25 years later, scientists have confirmed that the predator is one of a kind, the first feathered, non-avian dinosaur found …
Read More »Impressions of the artist Ubirajara Jubatas.Example: Bob Nichols / Paleocreation.com 2020 A re-analysis of the old fossil reveals the dinosaur’s features, including its former long, fur-like enjoyment and a pair of stiff structures protruding from its shoulders. Scientists say that this elaborate decoration was used for displays, including an early …
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Life on earth is a delicate thing. One of the pathways it takes is asteroids and balms, the most influential group of land animals on our planet. If it weren’t for the 10-kilometer-wide meteorite that spanned Earth about a million years ago, dinosaurs would be able to maintain their dominance …
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