3+ hour, 43+ min ago   (720+ words) July 23 (Reuters) – Snakes first appeared during the age of dinosaurs, but fossils of many early species are so fragmentary that scientists have had difficulty deciphering their evolution as a group. Now, a well-preserved fossil from southeastern Brazil is offering fresh…...

1+ mon, 2+ week 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…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (400+ words) By Charlotte Van Campenhout AMSTERDAM, April 2 (Reuters) – Scientists and designers unveiled on Thursday a handbag made with collagen derived from Tyrannosaurus rex fossils from the U.S. in a unique creation intended to demonstrate the ​value of laboratory-grown leather. The teal-coloured…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (694+ words) WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) – A new analysis of a large shinbone unearthed in a remote spot in northwestern New Mexico in the 1970s shows it belongs to a close relative of Tyrannosaurus rex that predated that huge meat-eating dinosaur by several million…...

5+ mon, 2+ week 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…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (522+ words) WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) – It may have been suicidal for a predator to go after a healthy adult Brachiosaurus, a behemoth weighing perhaps 60 tons that was a member of the long-necked group of dinosaurs called sauropods that included the largest land…...