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About 50 million years ago, a small bird waded along a lakeshore in what today is central Oregon. A worm wriggled at its feet. The bird appeared to probe the silty earth with its beak, once, twice, ...
A giant bone from one of the largest dinosaurs to live in North America was discovered at Big Bend National Park in Texas.
The massive fossil is suspected to belong to one of the most complete skeletons in the area, portions of which were discovered in the 1970s.
Geologists near Starkville found a bone of a Mosasaurus hoffmannii, one of the biggest species of mosasaurs, which could reach lengths of 50 feet.
Budding geologists on a research expedition in a Texas national park have unearthed a massive vertebra from a long-necked ...
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(CNN) — Older women who stayed on a reduced-calorie Mediterranean diet, walked and did resistance training for three years improved their bone density, especially in their lower backs ...
Despite looking like birds in many ways, researchers have been unable to find any evidence of air pockets in their bones until now. Thus far, they have only been found in other dinosaur groups and ...
The study also highlights the importance of CT scanning in studying small dinosaur bones. Because air pockets and blood vessel paths can look similar, high-quality scans are needed to tell them apart.
bone samples of turtles and mammals from the Palaeocene beds of Nemegt Valley (at Tsagan Hushu and Naran Bulak); (3) dinosaur bone samples from the Upper Cretaceous of Bain Dzak, corresponding ...
Dinosaurs in southwest Germany: The dinosaur Plateosaurus was a particularly large sauropodomorph. 210 million years ago, it was the largest terrestrial tetrapod, but still a very small forerunner of ...
Modern birds have air-filled cavities in their bones to reduce weight for flight. Interestingly, this feature has also been discovered in dinosaur fossils. A new study of alvarezsauridae fossils has ...