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Birds Basically Baby Dinosaurs

Don't look now, but there may be dinosaurs on your front lawn. Research into early bird and dinosaur tissue has shown that birds are more closely related to dinosaurs than we had thought, Discovery reports. "By analyzing fossil evidence from skeletons, eggs, and soft tissue of bird-like dinosaurs and primitive...
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Fossil egg links dinosaurs to modern birds

Academics / General Science : Science Daily (10 months ago)

Researchers have discovered a series of dinosaur eggs with a unique characteristic: they are oval in shape. The discovery supports the theory that birds and non-avian theropods, dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period, could have a com... Read Post

Newly discovered dinosaur implies greater prevalence of feathers; Megalosaur fossil represents first feathered dinosaur not closely related to birds

Academics / General Science : Science Daily (11 months ago)

A new species of feathered dinosaur discovered in southern Germany is further changing the perception of how predatory dinosaurs looked. The fossil of Sciurumimus albersdoerferi, which lived about 150 million years ago, provides the... Read Post

Dinosaur egg study supports evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs: Fossil eggs reveal how Troodon dinosaur likely hatched its young

Academics / General Science : Science Daily (last month)

A small, bird-like North American dinosaur incubated its eggs in a similar way to brooding birds -- bolstering the evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs, researchers have found. Read Post


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