Category: Paleontology

The amount obtained by the auction of the fossil remains of the dinosaurs surprised all the experts, who had valued the T-Rex between 6 and 8 million dollars. The sample has around 300 pieces. Stan, a T. Rex almost four meters high and another twelve from the head to the last vertebra of the tail, []

Dinosaur fossil Dinosaur fossils have been totally necessary and relevant to get to know what this species was like, how many types there were, what their size was, what habits had countless other dinosaur characteristics. They have also been decisive in order to know how each of the species became extinct. Below we explain a []

Kosmoceratops Kosmoceratopsis agenusofceratopsiddinosaurthat lived in North America about 76.475.5 million years ago during theLate Cretaceous period. Specimens were discovered inUtahin theKaiparowits Formationof theGrand Staircase-Escalante National Monumentin 2006 and 2007, including an adult skull andpostcranial skeletonand partialsubadults. Kosmoceratops Facts Lived in what is now known as North America Lived during the late Cretaceous period Has the []

Allosaurus vs. Stegosaurus Across the plains and woodlands of late Jurassic North America, circa 150 million years ago, two dinosaurs stood out for their size and majesty: the gentle, small-brained, impressively plated Stegosaurus, and the agile, three-fingered and perpetually hungry Allosaurus. Before these dinosaurs take their corners in the Dinosaur Death Duel thunderdome, lets look []

New analysis reveals body temps in same range as modern birds. Were all dinosaurs warm-blooded? Wereanyof them warm-blooded? The question of endothermy has long been, ahem, a hot topic in paleontology. No doubt a new study, using a recently developed method, will fire up the debate. Unlike cold-blooded ectotherms, endotherms have the ability to regulate []

Dinosaur DNA Has Been Found? New discoveries have raised the possibility of exploring dino genetics, but controversy surrounds the results. The tiny fossil is unassuming, as dinosaur remains go. It is not as big as anApatosaurusfemur or as impressive as aTyrannosaurusjaw. The object is a just a scant shard of cartilagefrom the skull of a []

Oligocene Epoch TheOligocene epochwasnt especially innovative with regard to its prehistoric animals, which continued along the evolutionary paths that had been pretty much locked in during the precedingEocene(and continued on in turn during the ensuingMiocene). The Oligocene was the last major geologic subdivision of thePaleogene period (65-23 million years ago), following thePaleocene (85-56 million years []

TheJurassicis a geologic period and system that spans 56.3 million years from the end of theTriassic Period201.3 million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of theCretaceous Period145 Mya. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of theMesozoic Era, also known as the Age of Reptiles. The start of the period is marked by the major TriassicJurassic []

The Best Dinosaur Museums in U.S. Natural history museums across the country are full of spectacular dinosaur fossils. But theyre usually set behind velvet ropes and glass walls, to keep small children (and their sticky fingers) at bay. If your pint-sized paleontologists are eager to get more up close and personal with their favorite giant []