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Mass extinction paved way for dinosaur domination

Pseudosuchians such as Longosuchus meani had features like sturdy body armour and strong tails for whacking enemies - Credit: Nobu Tamura/Wikimedia Commons

A mass extinction that occurred over 200 million years ago, killed off a slew of huge predators, including hefty beasts that looked like crocodiles and enormous armadillos, according to new research. Some of the prehistoric predators – animals known collectively as the early pseudosuchians – likely preyed on certain dinosaurs, which later evolved some of [...]

First fossil evidence shows small crocs fed on baby dinosaurs (Video)

Clint Boyd, Ph.D., of the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, points to a crocodyliform tooth embedded in the femur of a young dinosaur - Credit: South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

A South Dakota School of Mines & Technology assistant professor and his team have discovered a new species of herbivorous dinosaur and today published the first fossil evidence of prehistoric crocodyliforms feeding on small dinosaurs. Research by Clint Boyd, Ph.D., provides the first definitive evidence that plant-eating baby ornithopod dinosaurs were a food of choice [...]

Dinosaur cold-blood theory in doubt

One of the strongest lines of evidence that dinosaurs were cold-blooded, like modern reptiles, has been knocked down. Prior studies of dinosaur bones uncovered what are known as “lines of arrested growth”. The creatures were presumed to be cold-blooded because modern cold-blooded animals show these same lines. But scientists reporting in Nature have studied the [...]

Dinosaurs in the Amazon? (Video)

Date of sighting: May 01, 2012 Location of sighting: Amazon Rainforest YouTube entry notes: “On May 1, 2012, Vance Nelson and Harry Nibourg were on site in the Amazon Rainforest documenting authentic pictographs said by secular archaeologists to be over 5,000 years old. Amazingly, one of the pictographs showed nine warriors hunting what appears to [...]

When Dinosaurs warmed the Earth

In this April 13, 2011 file photo, visitors to the American Museum of Natural History in New York inspect a detailed model of a 60-foot-long Mamenchisaurus on display during the media preview of 'The World's Largest Dinosaurs' exhibit [Credit: AP/Mary Altaffer]

Potty humor just got prehistoric. A new study suggests that dinosaurs may have helped keep an already overheated world warmer with their flatulence and burps 200 million years ago. The research published Monday in Current Biology suggests that large dinosaurs made a significant contribution to the greenhouse effect back then. Study author David Wilkinson of [...]

Ever wondered what all the dinosaurs ate on board Noah’s Ark?

According to Scripture, Noah’s Ark was a safe haven for representatives of all the kinds of air-breathing land animals that God created. While it is possible that God made miraculous provisions for the daily care of these animals, it is not necessary—or required by Scripture—to appeal to miracles. Exploring natural solutions for day-to-day operations does [...]

Beefy dino sported fearsome claws

Fossils of a new type of dinosaur, which looks like a beefy version of the predatory Velociraptor, have been unearthed in Romania. The stocky dinosaur lived some 70 million years ago; higher sea levels at this time would have made the region an island archipelago. The animal is also notable for the two large and [...]

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