7+ hour, 23+ min ago  (266+ words) Dawn Get the latest news and updates from Dawn WASHINGTON: 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…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago  (245+ words) SANTIAGO: Scientists have discovered the fossil of a tiny mouse-sized mammal that lived in the time of the dinosaurs in Chilean Patagonia. "Yeutherium pressor" weighed between 30 and 40 grams (about one ounce) and lived in the Upper Cretaceous period, about 74 million…...

11+ mon, 1+ day ago  (322+ words) WASHINGTON: Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when venerable lineages that were destined soon to vanish lived alongside newcomers early in the age…...

11+ mon, 4+ week ago  (253+ words) Calgary: A newly identified mid-sized dinosaur from Mongolia dubbed the "Dragon Prince" has been identified as a pivotal forerunner of Tyrannosaurus rex in an illuminating discovery that has helped clarify the famous predator's complicated family history. Named Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, it…...