May 2, 2016 Dinosaur egg treasure trove found in Japan Researchers have discovered fragments of fossilized dinosaur eggs in Southern Japan, according to a June 29 report in the journal Cretaceous Research. The 90 eggshell fragments once housed five different types of dinosaurs, all of them small.
May 2, 2016 Frills and whistles: Triceratops relative had bizarre head of horns The 79-million-year-old bones of four pickup truck-size horned dinosaurs have been unearthed in Alberta, Canada, and the discovery reveals how the distant relatives of Triceratops got their horns, a new study finds
May 2, 2016 Mystery solved: Why large dinosaurs avoided the tropics for millions of years New research has revealed why it took more than 30 million years for large Triassic dinosaurs to populate the tropics after they first appeared on Earth, ending a mystery that has kept researchers baffled for decades.
May 2, 2016 Were dinosaurs warm-blooded? New study fuels debate Dinosaurs were once thought to be the cold-blooded kings of the Mesozoic era.
May 2, 2016 A look inside National Geographic's 'T. rex Autopsy' With “Jurassic World” hitting theaters next weekend, it seems like everyone’s got “dino fever” these days. This includes the folks at the National Geographic Channel, who are cashing in on the craze Sunday night with “T. rex Autopsy,” which features a dissection of the world’s first anatomically correct synthetic Tyrannosaurus Rex. Performing the autopsy are a veterinary surgeon and three leading paleontologists, including University of Edinburgh Chancellor’s Fellow Stephen Brusatte.
May 2, 2016 What a face! 'Hellboy' dino sported head crown, teeny eye horns About 70 million years ago, a bizarre-looking relative of Triceratops with a crownlike frill, tall nose horn and tiny eye horns tread over the ancient landscape of southeastern Alberta, a new study finds
May 2, 2016 Huge dinosaur thighbone found on Washington beach A fragmented femur bone hidden underwater for millions of years has become the first evidence that a dinosaur once roamed Washington, a new study finds
May 2, 2016 Chicken embryos with dinosaur snouts created in lab Chicks with dino-snouts? With a little molecular tinkering, for the first time scientists have created chicken embryos with broad, Velociraptor-like muzzles in the place of their beaks
May 2, 2016 Bizarre cousin of T. Rex was a vegetarian A relative of Tyrannosaurus rex didn't share the infamous carnivore's appetite for meat, a new study finds
May 2, 2016 Stegosaurus' bony plates may reveal dino's sex The plates of the Stegosaurus — the large, bony discs that lined the dinosaur's neck, back and tail in two staggered rows — may have differed between males and females, a new study finds