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Chinese Velociraptor cousin had a taste for birds
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (698+ words) WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) " About 120 million years ago in what is now northwestern China, many kinds of birds flocked to a lakeside ecosystem. This dense avian population would have offered a smorgasbord for a small and opportunistic carnivorous dinosaur. Researchers have…...
Canadian fossil reveals one of the first plant-eating animals
4+ mon, 3+ hour ago (648+ words) Feb 10 (Reuters) " Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature dating to about 307 million years ago that is one of the oldest-known plant-eating land vertebrates, representing a pivotal juncture in animal evolution. The creature,…...
New AI method helps identify which dinosaur made which footprints
4+ mon, 4+ day ago (566+ words) WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) " Footprints are among the most common kind of dinosaur fossils. Sometimes scientists find a single, lonely footprint. Sometimes they come across a chaotic jumble of tracks resembling a dance floor, sort of a dinosaur discotheque. But identifying…...