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Geotimes
March 2005
Megan Sever |
Dinosaur-Eating Mammal Recent excavations in China's Liaoning province have uncovered a well-preserved complete skeleton of a dog-sized mammal, alongside a cat-sized mammal that had the remains of its last supper -- a young dinosaur -- fossilized in its stomach.   |
Geotimes
November 2004
Laura Stafford |
Parenting Psittacosaurus An adult Psittacosaurus and 34 associated juveniles found in the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China, may be evidence of parental care by dinosaurs. |
Geotimes
June 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Egg-Laying Dinosaurs Because of their three-pronged grasping claw configurations, oviraptors were named "egg thieves," but the dinosaurs' reputation has in recent years shifted from egg-stealing to egg-laying. And a new fossil from China illustrates this. |
Geotimes
June 2006
Jennifer Yauck |
Ancient Bird Fossil Makes a Splash Recent expeditions in China have unearthed well-preserved fossils of an ancient bird that lived between 105 million and 115 million years ago. The fossils of the modern-looking bird suggest that today's birds may have originated from an aquatic ancestor. |
Scientific American
May 2009
Stuart Fox |
How Giant Pterosaurs Took Flight Biomechanics suggests that a giraffe-size pterosaur could have jumped from all fours to get off the ground |
Geotimes
January 2006
Spencer G. Lucas |
The Three Faces of Dinosaurs Three images of dinosaurs tell a remarkable story of how paleontological discoveries have driven research that has shaped and reshaped paleontologists' understanding of of the most famous of all extinct creatures. |
Geotimes
April 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Fossil Bites Into Mammal Stereotypes Paleontologists uncovered the fossil of a large beaver-like mammal in China that lived on land and likely fished in lakes. The discovery could tear down previous stereotypes that mammals, while living alongside dinosaurs, could not develop extensive specialization. |
Geotimes
June 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Penguins Endure Extinction Event Fossil and genetic evidence suggest that penguin ancestors living about 65 million years ago survived even more extreme conditions than they do today, including the impact that may have led to the demise of the dinosaurs. |
Geotimes
August 2006
Jennifer Yauck |
Ancient Bird Fossil Makes a Splash Recent expeditions in a remote area of China have unearthed unusually well-preserved fossils of an ancient bird that lived between 105 million and 115 million years ago. The fossils of the surprisingly modern-looking bird suggest that today's birds may have originated from an aquatic ancestor. |
Geotimes
July 2005
Laura Stafford |
Rare 3-D Fossil Preservation A new fossil locality in southern China is giving paleontologists a more detailed look at the early body plans of Ediacara organisms. |
Geotimes
May 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Birds Evolve Small Genomes Pre-Flight The holes in fossil dinosaur bones are pointing out the holes in the theories of bird evolution. |
Geotimes
September 2004
Megan Sever |
Ediacaran Fossil up Close Paleontologists have recently uncovered a goldmine of exceptionally well-preserved fossils in Newfoundland, Canada. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Callan Bentley |
Summer Roadtrip: A Fossil Aquarium in Wyoming Fossil Butte National Monument is located in southwestern Wyoming, near the town of Kemmerer. It is the best place in the world to see freshwater lake fossils from 50 million years ago. |
High on Adventure
August 2008
Vicki Andersen |
John Day Fossil Beds Situated within the deeply eroded layers of volcanic ash, the John Day Formation is a well-preserved history of the flora and fauna that flourished during 40 million years of the Cenozoic Era. |
Geotimes
December 2005
Douglas H. Erwin |
Out of the Past and Into the Future Some of the greatest recent triumphs of paleontology have come from intensive and rewarding collaborations among paleontologists, stratigraphers, geochemists and geochronologists. |
Chemistry World
September 25, 2013 |
Coloring in the dinosaur book Chemists' best known contributions to palaeontology are probably radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analysis. But they now face a bigger challenge that has traditionally fallen into the hands of artists: adding color to the ancient world. |
Geotimes
August 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Dino Pose Discloses Cause of Death Dinosaur fossils reveal skeleton after skeleton posed with back arched and head and tail thrown back, and new research is finally revealing what caused such tortuous death poses. |
Geotimes
October 2006
Carolyn Gramling |
David Fastovsky: Dinosaur Virtuoso The paleontologist has played the viola in some of the finest dinosaur fossil sites in the world. |
