News Stories relating to "dinosaurs"

After years spent hunting for prehistoric fossils, a paleontologist now plans to manipulate the DNA in chicken embryos to create a flying dinosaur.

The Breitbart website quotes researcher Hans Larsson as saying, "It's a demonstration of evolution. If I can demonstrate clearly that the potential for dinosaur anatomical development exists...

Our science textbooks told tales of tiny mammals (ourancestors) huddling in fear from the gigantic dinosaursroaming the world, but it wasn't that way at all. Andmillions of years later, the early humans known asNeanderthals had beautiful soprano singing voices.

Jeff Hecht writes in New Scientist that newly discoveredfossils from China...

Most scientists now believe that, due to the fossil evidence, birds are an evolutionary offspring of dinosaurs. Now they've discovered that 175 to 275 million years ago, when this evolution began to take place, oxygen fell to dangerously low levels on Earth. This may have led to the major extinction event which eliminated 90% of all the species...

Poor dinosaurs?their time really was up. Scientists now think that cold was killing them off long before that asteroid wiped them out 65 million years ago. Half of all dinosaurs were gone by then and the impact was just the final straw.

Fossil evidence from the Drumheller valley in Alberta, Canada, laid down 7 million years before the...