Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2078 science Dinosaurs & Fossils News en-us Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:55:26 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2078 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/chinasciencepaleontologydinosaurs afp/20100207/chinasciencepaleontologydinosaurs AFP topstories Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:55:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/chinasciencepaleontologydinosaurs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100207/capt.photo_1265521712029-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=NgRGu3519_OqmSye.ZICHw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A mound strewn with dinosaur bones is seen October 2009 in Zhucheng, in northeast China's Shandong province. Paleontologists in China have uncovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, state media reported, in an area said to be the world's largest grouping of fossilised bones belonging to the ancient animals.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Archaeologists in China have uncovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, state media reported, in an area said to be the world's largest grouping of fossilised bones belonging to the ancient animals.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/chinasciencepaleontologydinosaurs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100207/capt.photo_1265521712029-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=NgRGu3519_OqmSye.ZICHw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A mound strewn with dinosaur bones is seen October 2009 in Zhucheng, in northeast China's Shandong province. Paleontologists in China have uncovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, state media reported, in an area said to be the world's largest grouping of fossilised bones belonging to the ancient animals.(AFP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100204/sc_afp/scienceuschinapaleontology afp/20100204/scienceuschinapaleontology AFP science Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:23:57 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100204/sc_afp/scienceuschinapaleontology"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100204/capt.photo_1265311416445-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=oPqRnoorcf.GyX3VOGzBRQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Deciphering microscopic clues hidden within fossils, scientists have uncovered the vibrant colors that adorned a feathered dinosaur extinct for 150 million years, a Yale University-led research team reports online in the journal Science.(AFP/Yale-HO)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A group of paleontologists has used a new scientific method to reconstitute the vibrant colors that adorned the plumage of a tiny dinosaur over 150 million years ago, a study said on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100204/sc_afp/scienceuschinapaleontology"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100204/capt.photo_1265311416445-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=oPqRnoorcf.GyX3VOGzBRQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="Deciphering microscopic clues hidden within fossils, scientists have uncovered the vibrant colors that adorned a feathered dinosaur extinct for 150 million years, a Yale University-led research team reports online in the journal Science.(AFP/Yale-HO)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100129/sc_nm/us_china_dinosaur_bird nm/20100129/us_china_dinosaur_bird Reuters science Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:37:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100129/sc_nm/us_china_dinosaur_bird"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100128/i/r200762688.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=8MoPJy9yUrW8JoJukyrxnw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="The skull of the newly discovered fossil of a carnivorous dinosaur called "Haplocheirus sollers" is seen at a Chinese Academy of Sciences' workshop on the outskirts of Beijing, January 26, 2010. REUTERS/Barry Huang" border="0" /></a>Reuters - China has unearthed the fossil of a two-legged carnivorous dinosaur that lived 160 million years ago and which researchers have identified as the earliest known member of a long lineage that includes birds.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100129/sc_nm/us_china_dinosaur_bird"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100128/i/r200762688.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=8MoPJy9yUrW8JoJukyrxnw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="The skull of the newly discovered fossil of a carnivorous dinosaur called "Haplocheirus sollers" is seen at a Chinese Academy of Sciences' workshop on the outskirts of Beijing, January 26, 2010. REUTERS/Barry Huang" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100129/sc_livescience/newtyrannosaurspeciesdiscovered livescience/20100129/newtyrannosaurspeciesdiscovered LiveScience.com science Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:04:22 GMT LiveScience.com - T. rex's family tree just got one member larger. Scientists unearthed bones from a new dinosaur species, including an adult specimen and bones from a "teenager" that lived some 75 million years ago. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100128/sc_afp/sciencepaleontologyuschina afp/20100128/sciencepaleontologyuschina AFP science Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:25:05 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100128/sc_afp/sciencepaleontologyuschina"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100128/capt.photo_1264706574893-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=yv4rygG5NufxcNAqbt4JUg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="US paleontologists said they have uncovered a new dinosaur species in China's Gobi Desert that could explain how one dinosaur family came to look like birds.(Science)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US paleontologists said Thursday they have uncovered a new dinosaur species in China's Gobi Desert that could explain how one dinosaur family came to look like birds.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100128/sc_afp/sciencepaleontologyuschina"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100128/capt.photo_1264706574893-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=yv4rygG5NufxcNAqbt4JUg--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="US paleontologists said they have uncovered a new dinosaur species in China's Gobi Desert that could explain how one dinosaur family came to look like birds.(Science)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100128/sc_livescience/whyostrichescantfly livescience/20100128/whyostrichescantfly LiveScience.com science Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:30:45 GMT LiveScience.com - The mass extinction that killed off dinosaurs might have been what grounded the ancestors of today's large flightless birds like the ostrich. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/ap_on_sc/us_sci_dinosaur_color ap/20100127/us_sci_dinosaur_color AP science Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:47:45 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/ap_on_sc/us_sci_dinosaur_color"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100127/capt.36d2284628ea4c26bcff74c0d09a28aa.dinosaur_color_wx102.jpg?x=93&y=130&q=85&sig=UmgBQxJq5WnaIysIMq_4kQ--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="This January 2010 rendering by artist Jim Robins, provided by the University of Bristol shows a single sinosauropteryx, sporting its orange and white striped tail. Scientists have for the first time confirmed color in a dinosaur. Don't think purple Barney, but reddish-orange Conan O'Brien. (AP Photo/University of Bristol, Jim Robins)" border="0" /></a>AP - Scientists have for the first time confirmed color in a dinosaur. Don't think purple Barney, but reddish-orange Conan O'Brien. The first solid proof of pigmentation has been spotted in the fossilized tail feathers of a smallish meat-eating dinosaur found in China and named Sinosauropteryx. The creature seems to have russet colored rings, according to a paper published online Wednesday in the journal Nature.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/ap_on_sc/us_sci_dinosaur_color"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100127/capt.36d2284628ea4c26bcff74c0d09a28aa.dinosaur_color_wx102.jpg?x=93&y=130&q=85&sig=UmgBQxJq5WnaIysIMq_4kQ--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="photo" title="This January 2010 rendering by artist Jim Robins, provided by the University of Bristol shows a single sinosauropteryx, sporting its orange and white striped tail. Scientists have for the first time confirmed color in a dinosaur. Don't think purple Barney, but reddish-orange Conan O'Brien. (AP Photo/University of Bristol, Jim Robins)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100127/sc_afp/sciencepalaeontologydinosaurs afp/20100127/sciencepalaeontologydinosaurs AFP science Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:11:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100127/sc_afp/sciencepalaeontologydinosaurs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100127/capt.photo_1264623094291-1-0.jpg?x=94&y=130&q=85&sig=ad6prLeVu1C3dmZQyjok0g--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="Reconstruction of two Sinosauropteryx, sporting their orange and white striped tails. Scientists on Wednesday said they had identified true colours of a dinosaur for the first time, a feat that also explained what role feathers played in the evolution of birds.(AFP/Nature/Chuang Zhao and Lida Xing)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Scientists on Wednesday said they had identified true colours of a dinosaur for the first time, a feat that also explained what role feathers played in the evolution of birds.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100127/sc_afp/sciencepalaeontologydinosaurs"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100127/capt.photo_1264623094291-1-0.jpg?x=94&y=130&q=85&sig=ad6prLeVu1C3dmZQyjok0g--" align="left" height="130" width="94" alt="photo" title="Reconstruction of two Sinosauropteryx, sporting their orange and white striped tails. Scientists on Wednesday said they had identified true colours of a dinosaur for the first time, a feat that also explained what role feathers played in the evolution of birds.(AFP/Nature/Chuang Zhao and Lida Xing)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100127/sc_livescience/dinosaursportedcolorfulfeathers livescience/20100127/dinosaursportedcolorfulfeathers LiveScience.com science Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:20:23 GMT LiveScience.com - Our image of what dinosaurs looked like has just been colorized, thanks to fossilized feather remains showing one meat-eating beast sported a striped tail of white and gingery bands. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/fossils/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100125/ap_on_re_us/us_rare_raptor_dinosaur ap/20100125/us_rare_raptor_dinosaur AP us Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:13:44 GMT AP - A rare and nearly complete dinosaur skeleton stolen from private property in Montana and stored in an evidence locker for more than two years has been turned over to researchers.